Acts 7 Cross References - LITV

¹ And the high priest said, Tell me then if you thus hold these things? ² And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran, ³ and said to him, "Go out from your land and from your kindred," "and come into a land which I will show to you." Gen. 12:1 ⁴ Then going out from the land of the Chaldeans, he lived in Haran. And after his father died, God moved him from there into this land in which you now live. ⁵ And He did not give to him an inheritance in it, not even a foot breadth. And He promised to give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him, there being no child to him. Gen. 17:8 ⁶ And God spoke thus, that his seed would be a temporary resident in another land, and they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years. See Gen. 15:13 ⁷ And God said, I will judge the nation to which you will be in bondage." And, After these things they will come out and will serve Me in this place. Gen. 15:14; Ex. 3:12 ⁸ And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision; and so he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. ⁹ And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him into Egypt. But God was with him, ¹⁰ and plucked him out from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And Pharaoh appointed him governor over Egypt and all his household. ¹¹ But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. And our fathers did not find food. ¹² But hearing grain was in Egypt, Jacob sent our fathers out first. ¹³ And at the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race became known to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ And sending, Joseph called his father Jacob and all his kindred, "seventy five" "souls" "in all ". Gen. 46:27 ¹⁵ And Jacob went down into Egypt and expired, he and our fathers. ¹⁶ And they were moved into Shechem, and were put in the tomb which Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem. ¹⁷ But as the time of the promise drew near, which God swore to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until "another king rose up" "who did not know Joseph." Ex. 1:8 ¹⁹ Dealing slyly with our race, this one oppressed our fathers, causing their infants to be exposed so as not to be kept alive. ²⁰ In which time Moses was born and was beautiful to God; who was reared three months in his father's house. ²¹ And he being exposed, Pharaoh's daughter took him up and reared him for a son to her. ²² And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of Egyptians and was powerful in words and in works. ²³ And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it arose in his heart to look upon his brothers, the sons of Israel. ²⁴ And seeing one being wronged, he defended him, and he avenged the one getting the worse, striking the Egyptian. ²⁵ And he thought his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance by his hand. But they did not understand. ²⁶ And on the following day he appeared to them while fighting. And he urged them to peace, saying, Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another? ²⁷ But the one wronging the neighbor thrust him away, saying, "Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?" Ex. 2:14 ²⁹ "And Moses fled" at this word. "And he became a tenant in Midian land," where he fathered two sons. Ex. 2:13-15 ³⁰ And forty years being fulfilled to him, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush in the wilderness of Mount Sinai. ³¹ And seeing, Moses marveled at the sight. And he coming up to look, a voice of the Lord came to him: ³² "I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Ex. 3:6, 15 But becoming trembly, Moses did not dare to look. ³³ And the Lord said to him, "Loosen the sandal from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. ³⁴ I surely saw the affliction of My people in Egypt, and I have heard their groan, and I came down to pluck them out. And now, come, I will send you to" Egypt. Ex. 3:5, 7, 8a, 10a ³⁵ This Moses, whom they denied, saying, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge, this one God has sent as ruler and redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the Bush. ³⁶ This one led them out, having worked wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and forty years in the wilderness. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, " The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet to you" "from your brothers, One like me." You shall hear Him. Deut. 18:15 ³⁸ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living words to give to us, ³⁹ to whom our fathers did not desire to be subject, but thrust him away, and turned their hearts back to Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, "Make for us gods which will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him." Ex. 32:1 ⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and led a sacrifice up to the idol, and made merry in the works of their hands. ⁴² But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets: "Did you bring slain beasts and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ⁴³ And you took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the figures which you made" "in order to worship them. And I will remove you beyond" Babylon. Amos 7:45 ⁴⁴ The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, as He who spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the pattern which he had seen, ⁴⁵ which also was brought in, our fathers having inherited with Joshua, in the taking of possession of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David, ⁴⁶ who found favor before God and asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; ⁴⁷ but Solomon built Him a house. ⁴⁸ But the Most High does not dwell in temples made by hand, as the prophet says, ⁴⁹ "Heaven is My throne, and the earth a footstool of My feet; what house will you build Me," "says the Lord," "or what the place of My rest?" ⁵⁰ "Did not My hands make all these things?" Isa. 66:1, 2 ⁵¹ Oh stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and in the ears! You always fell against the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, you also did . ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers, ⁵³ who received the Law by the disposition of angels and did not keep it . ⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and gnashed the teeth on him. ⁵⁵ But being full of the Holy Spirit, looking intently into the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right of God. ⁵⁶ And he said, Behold, I see the heavens having been opened, and the Son of man standing at the right of God! ⁵⁷ And crying out with a loud voice, they held their ears and rushed on him with one passion. ⁵⁸ And throwing him outside the city, they stoned him . And the witnesses put off their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul. ⁵⁹ And they stoned Stephen, invoking and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. ⁶⁰ And placing the knees, he cried out with a loud voice, Lord, do not make stand this sin to them. And saying this, he fell asleep.

⁶¹ said, This one said, I am able to destroy the Holy Place of God, and in three days to build it. ⁶² And standing up, the high priest said to Him, Do you answer nothing? What do these witness against you?

⁵⁸ We heard Him saying, I will throw down this temple made with hands, and through three days I will build another not made with hands. ⁵⁹ And neither in this was their testimony identical. ⁶⁰ And standing in the middle, the high priest questioned Jesus, saying, Do you not answer? Nothing? What do these testify against you?

¹⁹ Then the high priest questioned Jesus about His disciples and about His doctrine. ²⁰ Jesus answered him, I publicly spoke to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple where the Jews always come together, and I spoke nothing in secret. ²¹ Why do you question Me? Question those hearing what I spoke to them: behold, these know what I said!

³³ Then Pilate again went into the praetorium and called Jesus, and said to Him, Are you the king of the Jews? ³⁴ Jesus answered him, Do you say this from yourself, or did others tell you about Me? ³⁵ Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your nation, even the chief priests, delivered you up to me! What did you do?

¹³ And they stood up false witnesses, who were saying, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and will change the customs which Moses delivered over to us.

³¹ And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there.

¹ And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out from your land and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to the land which I will show you.

⁵ And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

⁷ And He said to him, I am Jehovah who caused you to come out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.

⁴ And Jacob said to them, My brothers, from where are you? And they said, We are from Haran.

² And Joshua said to all the people, So says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers have in the past lived Beyond the River (Terah the father of Abraham and father of Nahor) and they served other gods.

⁷ You are Jehovah the God who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and appointed his name Abraham.

⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates; and be lifted up, O everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

¹⁰ Who is this King of glory? Jehovah of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah.

³ The voice of Jehovah is on the waters the God of glory thunders; Jehovah is above many waters.

³ And one cried to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory!

² Look to your father Abraham, and to Sarah who bore you. For he being but one, I called him and blessed him and increased him.

¹³ And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil, for Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory to the ages. Amen.

¹⁴ Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will among men.

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. And we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from the Father, full of grace and of truth.

⁴¹ Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke about Him.

¹ Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense now to you.

⁷ And he having spoken this, there was a discord between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the multitude was divided.

⁸ which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

⁴ in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the brightness of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. ⁵ For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your slaves for the sake of Jesus. ⁶ Because it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine," who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Isa. 42:6, 7, 16

¹³ looking for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

³ who being the shining splendor of His glory, and the express image of His essence, and upholding all things by the word of His power, having made purification of our sins through Himself, He sat down on the right of the Majesty on high, Psa. 110:1

¹¹ Lord, You are worthy to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because You created all things, and through Your will they exist and were created.

¹² saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb having been slain to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. ¹³ And every creature which is in Heaven, and in the earth, and underneath the earth, and the things that are on the sea, and the things in all of them, I heard saying: To Him sitting on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.

¹⁴ And after Lot had separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram, Now lift up your eyes and look northward and southward and eastward and westward from the place where you are. ¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever. ¹⁶ And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your seed also will be counted. ¹⁷ Rise up! Walk through the land, in its length and in its breadth, for I will give it to you.

³ And I took your father Abraham from Beyond the River, and caused him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave Isaac to him.

⁸ And You found his heart faithful before You, and cut with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed. And You have performed Your words, for You are righteous.

³⁷ He that loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he that loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

³³ So then every one of you who does not abandon all his possessions is not able to be My disciple.

¹⁷ Because of this, "come out from among them" "and be separated," says the Lord, "and do not touch the unclean thing," and I will receive you. Isa. 52:11

⁸ Having been called out by faith, Abraham obeyed to go forth to a place which he was going to receive for an inheritance; and he went out not understanding where he went.

³¹ And Terah took his son Abram, and Lot, Haran's son, his grandson and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife. And he went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and lived there. ³² And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

⁴ And Abram went out, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was a son of seventy five years when he went out from Haran. ⁵ And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.

² Who raised up the righteous one from the east? He called him to His foot; He gives nations before him, and subdues kings; He gives them as dust to his sword, as driven stubble to his bow;

⁹ whom I have made strong from the ends of the earth, and called you from its sides; and I said to you, You are My servant. I chose you, and have not rejected you .

⁷ And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said I will give this land to your seed. And he built an altar there to Jehovah, who appeared to him.

¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever.

² And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what will You give to me since I am going childless and the son of the inheritance of my house is Eleazar of Damascus? ³ And Abram said, Behold! You have given no seed to me; and lo, the son of my house is inheriting of me! And behold! ⁴ And behold! The word of Jehovah came to him saying, This one shall not be your heir. But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir. ⁵ And He brought him outside and said, Look now at the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.

¹⁸ On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, I have given this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,

² And Sarai said to Abram, See, now, Jehovah has kept me from bearing; go in now to my slave-girl; perhaps I may be built up from her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

⁸ And I will give to you and to your seed after you the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession and I will be their God.

¹⁶ and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her. Yea, I have blessed her and she shall become nations; kings of people shall be from her. ¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, Shall one be born to a son of a hundred years? And shall Sarah bear, a daughter of ninety years? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before You! ¹⁹ And God said, Your wife Sarah truly shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I have established My covenant with him for a perpetual covenant with his seed after him.

⁴ I am an alien and a visitor with you. Give to me a possession among you, so that I may bury my dead from before the eyes.

³ Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands. And I will cause to rise My oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

¹³ And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed. ¹⁵ And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you.

⁷ And I will take you for Myself for a people, and I will be a God for you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah your God, the One bringing you out from under the burdens of Egypt. ⁸ And I will bring you into the land which I raised My hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And I will give it to you for a possession. I am Jehovah!

⁵ you shall not fight against them, for I will not give their land to you, even to a step of a sole of a foot, for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

¹⁰ And it shall be, when Jehovah your God shall bring you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities, which you have not built, ¹¹ and houses full of every good thing which you have not filled, and wells dug which you did not dig, vineyards and oliveyards which you did not plant; and you shall eat and be satisfied;

⁵ It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you go to possess their land. But Jehovah your God is expelling them from before you because of the wickedness of these nations; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹¹ And Jehovah said to me Rise up! Go before the people, causing them to set forward, that they may go in and possess the land which I swore to their fathers, to give it to them.

⁹ and so that you may prolong your days in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁴ And Jehovah said to him, This is the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.

⁸ He has remembered His covenant forever; the word He commanded to a thousand generations; ⁹ which He cut with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac; ¹⁰ and He established it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel for a perpetual covenant; ¹¹ saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance; ¹² when they were a few men of number; very few, and strangers in it.

⁹ By faith he resided as a foreigner in a land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise; ¹⁰ for he looked forward to a city having the foundations of which the builder and maker is God.

¹³ These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them from afar, and being persuaded, and having embraced and confessed that they are aliens and tenants. ¹⁴ For those saying such things make clear that they seek a fatherland. ¹⁵ And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to return. ¹⁶ But now they stretch forth to a better, that is, a heavenly land . Therefore, God is not ashamed of them, for Him to be called their God; for He prepared a city for them.

¹³ And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs; and they shall serve them. And they shall afflict then four hundred years;

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full

⁴⁰ And the time of the dwelling of the sons of Israel, which they dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And it happened, from the end of four hundred and thirty years, it happened on this day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ And I say this, A covenant having been ratified before to Christ by God, the Law coming into being four hundred and thirty years after, does not annul the promise, so as to abolish it .

¹⁴ and I also will judge that nation whom they shall serve; and afterward they shall come out with great substance. ¹⁵ And you shall come to you fathers in peace. You shall be buried in good old age. ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full

¹² And He said, I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you, when you bring out the people from Egypt: You shall serve God on this mountain.

¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh; and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. ² You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh. And he will send away the sons of Israel from his land. ³ And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh. And I will multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ And Pharaoh will not listen to you. And I will lay My hand on Egypt, and will bring My armies, My people, the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt with great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah when I send forth My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron did as Jehovah commanded them, so they did. ⁷ And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron was a son of eighty three years when they spoke to Pharaoh. ⁸ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ⁹ When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Give a miracle for yourselves, you shall say to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh; and let it become a snake. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Jehovah had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants. And it became a snake. ¹¹ And Pharaoh also called wise men and the sorcerers. And they, the priests of Egypt, also performed by their secret arts. ¹² And they each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs. ¹³ And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said. ¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, The heart of Pharaoh is heavy; he refuses to send away the people.

⁹ And You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds. ¹⁰ And You gave signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of the land. For You knew that they were seething against them. And You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day. ¹¹ And You divided the Sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the Sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep, like a stone into the mighty waters.

¹² For God is my King of old, who works salvation in the midst of the land. ¹³ You broke the sea by Your strength; You burst the heads of sea-monsters in the waters. ¹⁴ You cracked open the heads of leviathan; You gave him to be food for the people of the wilderness.

⁴³ who set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan. ⁴⁴ He turned their rivers into blood, also their streams that they might not drink. ⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies against them, and they devoured them; also frogs, and they destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust. ⁴⁷ He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet. ⁴⁸ He gave their cattle up to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire. ⁴⁹ He sent the heat of His anger on them, fury and indignation and distress, a sending of angels of evils. ⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger; He did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague. ⁵¹ And he struck all the first-born in Egypt, the firstfruits of strength in the tents of Ham;

²⁷ They put things of His signs among them; yea, miracles in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness and made it dark; and they did not rebel against His word. ²⁹ He turned their waters into blood and killed their fish. ³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs in the rooms of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and fly swarms came; gnats in all their borders. ³² He gave hail for their rain, flaming fire in their land. ³³ He struck their vines also, and their fig trees; and He broke the trees of their borders. ³⁴ He spoke, and locusts came; and larvae without number; ³⁵ and they ate up all the plants in the land; yea, ate the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ He also struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruit of all their vigor.

⁸ He who struck the first-born of Egypt, from man to animal; ⁹ who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants;

¹⁰ to Him who struck Egypt in her first-born; for His mercy endures forever; ¹¹ and brought Israel out from among them; for His mercy endures forever; ¹² with a strong hand and a stretched out arm; for His mercy endures forever; ¹³ to Him who divided the Sea of Reeds into parts; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁴ and made Israel pass through the middle of it; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁵ but shook Pharaoh and his army off in the Sea of Reeds; for His mercy endures forever;

⁹ Awake! Awake! Arm of Jehovah, put on strength. Awake, as in days of old, everlasting generations. Was it not You cutting in pieces Rahab, and piercing the sea monster? ¹⁰ Was it not You drying up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass?

⁹ And God said to Abraham, You shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations. ¹⁰ This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised ¹¹ And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you. ¹² And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male in your generation, he that is born in the house, or bought with silver from any son of a foreigner who is not of your seed. ¹³ Surely the child of your house and the purchase of your money must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant. ¹⁴ And an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, his soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

¹ And Jehovah visited Sarah as He had said. And the Lord did to Sarah as He had spoken. ² And Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the time appointed, that which God had spoken with him. ³ And Abraham called the name of the son who was born to him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac. ⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, a son of eight days, as God had commanded him.

²¹ And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived. ²² And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah. ²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; even two peoples shall break from your body And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ And her days were fulfilled to bear. And behold! Twins were in her womb. ²⁵ And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them.

³¹ And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated. And He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹⁶ And they pulled up stakes from Bethel. And there was yet a length of land to come to Ephrath. And Rachel bore; and she had hard labor in her bearing.

¹⁸ And it happened, when her soul was going forth (for she died) even she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first born; and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's slave-girl: Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's slave-girl: Gad and Asher. These were Jacob's sons who were born in Padan-aram.

¹ And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; they each one came in with his house: ² Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, ³ Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, ⁴ Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

³⁴ And Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

¹ These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, ² Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

² Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

²² Because of this Moses has given you circumcision; (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on a sabbath, you circumcise a man.

²⁹ Men, brothers, it is permitted to say to you with plainness as to the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us until this day.

¹⁰ How then was it counted? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision!

⁹ For the word of promise is this, According to this time I will come, and a son will be to Sarah. Gen. 18:10 ¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac, ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of the One calling, ¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23 ¹³ even as it has been written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." Mal. 1:2, 3

¹⁵ Brothers, I speak according to man, a covenant having been ratified, even among mankind, no one sets aside or adds to it .

⁴ Now behold how great this one was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils;

⁴ And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him. And they were not able to speak to him for peace. ⁵ And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers. And they increased to hate him still more. ⁶ And he said to them, Now hear this dream which I have dreamed: ⁷ And, behold! We were binding sheaves in the middle of the field. And, behold, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And, behold, your sheaves came around and bowed themselves to my sheaf. ⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you really rule over us? And they hated him still more because of his dreams, and because of his words. ⁹ And he dreamed still another dream, and told it to his brothers. And he said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: And, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars were bowing themselves to me. ¹⁰ And he told it to his father, and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which you have dreamed? Shall we indeed come to bow ourselves to the earth to you, I, your mother, and your brothers? ¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him. But his father observed the word.

¹⁸ And they saw him from a distance. And before he came near to them, they plotted against him, to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said, each to his brother, Behold, this master of dreams is coming. ²⁰ And, Come now, and let us kill him, and throw him into one of the pits. And let us say, An evil beast has eaten him. And let us see what will become of his dreams. ²¹ And Reuben heard, and he delivered him from their hands, and said, Let us not smite his soul. ²² And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father. ²³ And it happened when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped his tunic which was on him, from Joseph, the tunic reaching to the soles of his feet. ²⁴ And they took him and threw him into the pit, the pit being empty, no water in it. ²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked. And, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead! And their camels were bearing spices, and balsam gum, and myrrh, going down to take them to Egypt. ²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What gain is it that we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and do not let our hand be on him. For he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened. ²⁸ And men, Midianites, traders, passed. And they drew up and took Joseph out of the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. ²⁹ And Reuben came back to the pit. And, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

² And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. And he was in the house of the Egyptian, his master.

⁵ And it came about that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all he owned, Jehovah blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of Jehovah was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

²¹ And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended kindness to him. And He gave him favor in the eyes of the warden of the prison house. ²² And the warden of the prison house gave all the prisoners in the prison house into Joseph's hand. And all which they did there, he was doing. ²³ There was no looking of the warden of the prison house to anything in his hand, in that Jehovah was with him, and Jehovah was prospering what he was doing.

⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, Now come near to me And they came near. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

²³ And the masters of arrows harass him, and shoot, and an archer lurks for him. ²⁴ His bow abides in strength, and the hands of his arms are made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.

¹⁵ And Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead. And they said, What if Joseph should bear a grudge against us and should surely repay us all the evil which we did to him? ¹⁶ And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, ¹⁷ Your father commanded before his death, saying, So you shall say to Joseph, Please lift up now the rebellion of your brothers, and their sin; for they did evil to you. And now please lift up the rebellion of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. ¹⁸ his brothers also went and fell down before his face. And they said, Behold, we are your servants. ¹⁹ And Joseph said to them, Do not fear. For am I in the place of God? ²⁰ And you, you intended evil against me, but God meant it for good, in order to make it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them, Joseph, being sold for a slave;

¹⁰ Do not fear, for I am with you; do not gaze about, for I am your God; I will make you strong; yea, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of My righteousness.

² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk in the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle on you.

¹⁸ For he knew they delivered Him up through envy.

¹² And a Hebrew youth was with us, a slave to the chief of the executioners. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams to us; he interpreted to each according to his dream. ¹³ And it happened, as he had interpreted to us, so it was; he returned me to my place, and he hanged him. ¹⁴ And Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they rushed him from the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his clothing and came in to Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one to interpret it; and I have heard about you, saying, you hear a dream to interpret it. ¹⁶ And Joseph replied to Pharaoh, saying, Not I! God will answer the welfare of Pharaoh. ¹⁷ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, lo, I was standing on the lip of the River. ¹⁸ And, behold, seven cows were going up from the River, fat of flesh and beautiful of form, and were feeding in the reeds. ¹⁹ And, behold, seven other cows were going up after them, poor and very evil of form, and lean of flesh; I have not seen any like them in all the land of Egypt for badness. ²⁰ And the cows, the lean and the evil, ate the first seven fat cows. ²¹ And they went into their stomachs, and it could not be seen that they had gone into their stomachs; and their appearance was as evil as at the beginning. And I awakened. ²² And I looked in my dream. And, behold, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, full and good. ²³ And, behold, seven ears, withered, lean, blasted by the east wind, sprouting forth after them. ²⁴ And the lean ears were swallowing the seven good ears. And I spoke to the magicians, but not one is making known the meaning to me. ²⁵ And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do. ²⁶ The seven good cows, they are seven years and the seven good ears, they are seven years; it is one dream. ²⁷ And the seven thin and evil-appearing cows going up after them, they are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted by the east wind will be seven years of famine. ²⁸ This is the word that I spoke to Pharaoh: what God is about to do, He has shown Pharaoh ²⁹ Behold! Seven years of great plenty are coming in all the land of Egypt. ³⁰ And seven years of famine will arise after them and all the plenty of the land of Egypt will be forgotten; and the famine will consume the land. ³¹ And the plenty in the land will not be remembered because of that famine afterwards; for it will be very severe ³² And as to the dream being repeated to Pharaoh twice, the thing is settled because it is from God, and God is hastening to do it. ³³ And now let Pharaoh look for a man who is intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. ³⁴ Let Pharaoh act and let him appoint rulers over the land and take a fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven years of plenty. ³⁵ And let then gather all the food of these coming good years. And let them heap up grain under Pharaoh's hand as food in the cities, ant let them keep it . ³⁶ And let the food be for a store for the land, for the seven years of famine which will be in the land of Egypt and let not the land be cut off by famine ³⁷ And the word was good in Pharaoh's eyes, and in the eyes of all his servants. ³⁸ And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find any man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God? ³⁹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has taught you all this, there is no one wise and intelligent like you. ⁴⁰ You shall be over my house, and at your mouth all my people shall kiss the hand . Only in respect to the throne will I be greater than you. ⁴¹ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. ⁴² And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on the hand of Joseph; and he clothed him with fine linen robes, and put a golden chain on his neck. ⁴³ And he caused him to ride in a chariot which was the second to him. And they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he put him over all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you not a man shall lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt. ⁴⁵ And Pharaoh called Joseph by the name of Zaphnath-paaneah. And He gave him Asenath the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On, for a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. ⁴⁶ And Joseph was a son of thirty years as he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the face of Pharaoh and passed over in all the land of Egypt.

⁶ And Joseph was the potentate over the land, he selling to all the people of the earth. And Joseph's brothers came in and bowed to him, face down to the earth.

¹⁸ And Judah came near to him and said, O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and let not your anger glow on your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

⁸ And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord in all his house, and a ruler in all the land of Egypt. ⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has placed me as a lord to all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay.

¹⁶ The Angel that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they like the fishes increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

²⁴ For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when He cried to Him, He heard.

¹⁷ The righteous cry, and Jehovah hears, and saves them out of all their distresses. ¹⁸ Jehovah is near those who are broken-hearted, and saves those who have a contrite spirit. ¹⁹ Many are the evils of the righteous, but Jehovah helps him out of them all,

⁴⁰ And Jehovah helps them and delivers them; He shall deliver them from the wicked and save them, because they trust in Him.

¹ To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. Waiting I have waited on Jehovah; and He bowed to me and heard my cry. ² And He drew me up from the pit of tumult, out of the miry clay; He set my feet on a rock; He directed my steps. ³ And He put a new song of praise to our God in my mouth; many shall see and shall fear and shall trust in Jehovah.

¹⁹ until the time His word came, the word of Jehovah refined him; ²⁰ the king, the ruler of peoples, sent and released him; even set him free; ²¹ he made him lord of his house, and ruler over all he owned; ²² to bind his leaders at his will, and to teach his elders wisdom.

⁶ For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth are knowledge and understanding.

⁴ and you shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every wicked work and will save me for His heavenly kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹¹ Behold, we call those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord, "that the Lord is full of tender mercy and pity." Psa. 103:8

¹⁴ And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation; and they washed their robes and whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

⁵⁴ And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said. And the famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread. ⁵⁵ And all the land of Egypt hungered and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do. ⁵⁶ And the famine was on the face of all the land. And Joseph opened all which was in them, and sold to the Egyptians. And the famine was strong in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all the earth came to Egypt to buy, to Joseph. For the famine was strong in all the earth.

⁵ And among those coming, the sons of Israel came to buy. For the famine was in land of Canaan.

¹ And the famine was severe in the land.

⁵ And now do not be grieved, and let no anger be in your eyes because you sold me here for God sent me before you to save life. ⁶ For the famine has been in the midst of the land for two years. And there are still five years in which no plowing and harvest will be .

¹¹ And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine; lest you be made poor, you and your house and all which belong to you.

¹³ And no bread was in the land, because the famine was exceedingly severe. And the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted from the famine. ¹⁴ And Joseph gathered up all the silver found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in return for the grain they were buying. And Joseph brought in the silver to the house of Pharaoh. ¹⁵ And the silver failed from the land of Egypt, and from the land of Canaan. And all Egypt came in to Joseph, saying, Give us bread; and, Why should we die before you? For the silver has failed.

¹⁶ And He called a famine on the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.

¹ And Jacob saw that grain was in Egypt. And Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look at each other? ² And he said, Behold! I have heard grain is in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there, that we may live and not die. ³ And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. ⁴ And Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers, for he said, Lest harm happen to him. ⁵ And among those coming, the sons of Israel came to buy. For the famine was in land of Canaan. ⁶ And Joseph was the potentate over the land, he selling to all the people of the earth. And Joseph's brothers came in and bowed to him, face down to the earth. ⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them; but he remained a stranger to them and spoke harsh things to them, and said to them, From where have you come? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. ⁸ And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. ⁹ And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them. And he said to them, You are spies! You have come in to see the bareness of the land. ¹⁰ And they said to him, No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. ¹¹ We are all of us sons of one man; we are honest; your servants are not spies. ¹² And he said to them, No, but you have come to see the bareness of the land. ¹³ And they said, Your servants are twelve brothers; we are sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, lo, the youngest is with our father today; and one is not. ¹⁴ And Joseph said to them, This is that which I have spoken to you, saying, You are spies! ¹⁵ By this you shall be tested. As Pharaoh lives you shall not leave here except your younger brother come in here. ¹⁶ Send one of you and let him bring your brother; and you be bound, and let your words be proven, whether truth is with you. And if not, as Pharaoh lives, so you are spies. ¹⁷ And he gathered them into custody three days. ¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this and live. I fear God. ¹⁹ If you are honest, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house, and you go bring grain for the famine of your houses. ²⁰ And you bring your youngest brother to me, and let your words be true, and you shall not die. And so they did. ²¹ And they said each to his brother, We are truly guilty because of our brother whom we saw in distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we did not hear. So this pain has come to us. ²² And Reuben replied to them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the youth, and you did not listen? And, behold, his blood is also required. ²³ And they did not know that Joseph heard, for the interpreter was between them. ²⁴ And he turned away from them and wept, and returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

² And it happened, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go back; buy a little food for us.

¹ And Joseph was not able to control himself in regard to those standing beside him. And he called out, Cause every man to go out from me. And no man stood before him as Joseph was making himself known to his brothers. ² And he wept aloud; and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. ³ And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph. Is my father still alive? And his brothers were not able to answer him, for they trembled before him. ⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, Now come near to me And they came near. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. ⁵ And now do not be grieved, and let no anger be in your eyes because you sold me here for God sent me before you to save life. ⁶ For the famine has been in the midst of the land for two years. And there are still five years in which no plowing and harvest will be . ⁷ And God sent me before you to put a remnant in the land for you, and to keep alive for you a great deliverance. ⁸ And now you did not send me here, but God. And He has placed me for a father to Pharaoh, and for a lord in all his house, and a ruler in all the land of Egypt. ⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has placed me as a lord to all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ And you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your sons and sons of your sons, and your flocks, and your herds, and all you have. ¹¹ And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine; lest you be made poor, you and your house and all which belong to you. ¹² And behold, your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that my mouth is speaking to you. ¹³ And you tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and all that you have seen. And hurry and bring down my father here. ¹⁴ And he fell on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. ¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. And afterwards his brothers spoke with him. ¹⁶ And the report was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, The brothers of Joseph have come. And it was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants. ¹⁷ Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this; load your animals and depart; go to the land of Canaan. ¹⁸ And take your father, and your houses, and come to me. And I will give to you the good of the land of Egypt; and you shall eat the fat of the land.

³¹ And Joseph said to his brothers, and to the house of his father, I will go up and tell Pharaoh. And I will say to him My brothers and the house of my father, who were in the land of Canaan, have come in to me.

⁹ Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, So says your son Joseph, God has placed me as a lord to all Egypt. Come down to me, do not delay. ¹⁰ And you shall live in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you and your sons and sons of your sons, and your flocks, and your herds, and all you have. ¹¹ And I will nourish you there, for there are still five years of famine; lest you be made poor, you and your house and all which belong to you.

¹² And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah. And Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.

²⁶ All the souls belonging to Jacob coming into Egypt, those springing from his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty six. ²⁷ And the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt, two souls. All the souls belonging to the house of Jacob coming into Egypt were seventy.

⁵ And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, Joseph being in Egypt.

²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons; and now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

⁵ The sons of Pharez: Hezron and Hamul. ⁶ And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them were five.

²³ Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

³ And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there. ⁴ I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely return you. And Joseph shall put his hand on your eyes. ⁵ And Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones, and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ And they took their livestock and their property which they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him. ⁷ His sons and the sons of his sons were with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.

³³ And Jacob finished commanding his sons, and he gathered his feet into the bed. And he expired, and was gathered to his people.

⁶ And Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

¹⁵ that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians did evil to us and to our fathers.

⁵ And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a perishing Aramean! And he went down to Egypt with few men, and lived there, and became a nation there, great, mighty and many.

⁴ And I gave Jacob and Esau to Isaac. And I gave Mount Seir to Esau, to possess it. And Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

²¹ By faith dying Jacob blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and "worshiped on the top of his staff." LXX-47:31 ²² Dying Joseph by faith made mention of the Exodus of the sons of Israel, and he gave orders concerning his bones.

¹⁶ And Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver of which he had spoken in the ears of the sons of Heth, four hundred silver shekels which passes with the merchant.

⁹ And Esau said, I have much, my brother. Let what you have be to yourself. ¹⁰ And Jacob said, No, please, if I now have found favor in your eyes, take my present from my hands. For I have seen your face, like seeing the face of God; and you are pleased with me. ¹¹ Please take my blessing which has been brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all things. And he urged him; and he accepted. ¹² And he said, Let us depart and go, and I will go with you. ¹³ And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are suckling. And if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. ¹⁴ Please let my lord go before the face of his servant, and I will move on by stages at my ease, according to the pace of the livestock which are before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come into my lord to Seir. ¹⁵ And Esau said, Please let me place with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why, then? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord. ¹⁶ And Esau returned on his way toward Seir that day. ¹⁷ And Jacob traveled to Succoth. And he built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. For this reason he called the name of the place Succoth. ¹⁸ And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, as he came from Padan-aram And he camped in front of the city. ¹⁹ And he bought that part of the field where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money. ²⁰ And he set up an altar there. And he called it, El, the God of Israel.

² And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humiliated her. ³ And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the girl, and spoke to the heart of the girl. ⁴ And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take this girl for me for a wife. ⁵ And Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. And his sons were with his livestock in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they had come. ⁶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. ⁷ And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard, and the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done foolishness in Israel, to lie with the daughter of Jacob, and it should not be done in this way. ⁸ And Hamor spoke with them, saying, My son Shechem's soul is bound to your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. ⁹ And you intermarry with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves. ¹⁰ And live with us, and the land is before you; live and trade in it, and get property in it. ¹¹ And Shechem said to her father, and to her brothers, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what you say to me I will give. ¹² Heap on me ever so much bride-price and gift, and I will give as you say to me; but give me the girl for a wife. ¹³ And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor, speaking with deceit because he had defiled their sister Dinah. ¹⁴ And they said to them, We are not able to do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised. For it is a reproach to us. ¹⁵ Only on this condition will we consent to you; If you will become like us, to have every male of you circumcised. ¹⁶ Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will live with you and will become one people. ¹⁷ And if you do not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will go. ¹⁸ And their words pleased Hamor and the son of Hamor, Shechem. ¹⁹ And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing, for he delighted in Jacob's daughter. And he was more honorable than all the house of his father. ²⁰ And Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city. And they spoke with the men of their city, saying, ²¹ These men are peaceable with us; and, Let them live in the land and trade m it; and, behold, the land is wide on both hands before them. Let us take their daughters for ourselves for wives, and let us give our daughters to them. ²² only in this way will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male of us be circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Shall not their livestock, and their property, and all their beasts of burden be ours? Only let us consent to them, and let them live with us. ²⁴ And all those going out of the gate of the city listened to Hamor, and to his son Shechem. And every male was circumcised, all those going out of the gate of the city. ²⁵ And it happened on the third day, they being pained, that the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword. And they came on the city in its security, and killed every male. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword. And they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and left. ²⁷ The sons of Jacob came on the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and whatever was in the city, and whatever was in the field. ²⁹ And they took all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, and looted all that was in the house. ³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and to Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites. And I being few in number, and they gathering against me, they will strike me, and I and my house shall be wasted. ³¹ And they said, Should he treat our sister like a harlot?

¹⁹ And Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath, it is Bethlehem.

²⁹ And he commanded them and said to them I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me beside my fathers, at the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the field which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a burying place. ³¹ They buried Abraham and his wife Sarah there, and they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and I buried Leah there; ³² the purchase of the field and the cave in it, from the sons of Heth.

¹³ And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah; the field which Abraham bought for a burying place from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him. For he had made the sons of Israel certainly swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall cause my bones to go from here with you.

³² And the bones of Joseph which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for a hundred silver pieces. And they were for an inheritance to the sons of Joseph.

¹³ And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs; and they shall serve them. And they shall afflict then four hundred years;

⁷ And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased very much, and multiplied, and became very strong; and the land was filled with them. ⁸ And a new king arose over Egypt, who had not known Joseph. ⁹ And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and stronger than we. ¹⁰ Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land. ¹¹ And they put over them slave-masters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses. ¹² And as much as they afflicted them, so much they multiplied and so much they spread. And they were afraid before the sons of Israel.

²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became exceedingly strong.

²⁴ And He increased His people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies. ²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

⁶ And God spoke thus, that his seed would be a temporary resident in another land, and they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years. See Gen. 15:13

¹⁷ The God of this people Israel chose out our fathers, and exalted the people in their stay in the land of Egypt. And with a high arm, He led them out of it.

⁸ But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is "as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Psa. 90:4 ⁹ The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not having purposed any of us to perish, but all of us to come to repentance.

⁸ And a new king arose over Egypt, who had not known Joseph. ⁹ And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and stronger than we. ¹⁰ Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land. ¹¹ And they put over them slave-masters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses. ¹² And as much as they afflicted them, so much they multiplied and so much they spread. And they were afraid before the sons of Israel. ¹³ And Egypt made the sons of Israel to serve with harshness. ¹⁴ And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness. ¹⁵ And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah, and the name of the second, Puah; ¹⁶ and he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth-stools, if it is a son, you will kill him; and if it is a daughter, it shall live. ¹⁷ And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt said to them. And they kept the male children alive. ¹⁸ And the king of Egypt called to the midwives and said to them, Why do you do this thing and keep alive the male children? ¹⁹ And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous. Before the midwives come to them they bear. ²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became exceedingly strong. ²¹ And it was, because the midwives feared God, He made houses for them. ²² And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born, you shall cast him into the river. And you shall keep alive every daughter.

⁴ They have said, Come, and we will cut them off from being a nation; and, The name of Israel will not be recalled again. ⁵ For they plotted to together with one heart; they have cut a covenant against You;

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, let Israel now say; ² they have afflicted me from my youth many times, yet they have not prevailed over me. ³ The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

⁴ and his tail drew the third part of the stars of the heaven, and he throws them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman being about to bear, so that when she bears he might devour her child. ⁵ And she bore a son, a male, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron staff. And her child was caught away to God, and to His throne.

² And the woman conceived and bore a son; and she saw him, that he was beautiful. And she concealed him three months. ³ And she was not able to hide him any longer, and she took a basket for him made of papyrus, and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and placed it in the reeds by the lip of the Nile. ⁴ And his sister took her stand from a distance, to know what would be done to him. ⁵ And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe at the Nile. And her slave women were walking on the side of the Nile. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and sent her slave-girl and took it. ⁶ And she opened it and saw the child, and, behold, a boy crying! And she had pity on him and said, This one is of the children of the Hebrews. ⁷ And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a woman for you, a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? ⁸ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child's mother. ⁹ And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed him. ¹⁰ And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became a son to her, and she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and good form. And Jehovah said, Rise up, anoint him, for this is he.

²³ Being born, Moses was by faith hidden by his parents three months, because they saw the child was fair; and they did not fear the king's decree.

²⁶ I said, I will dash them to pieces; I will make their memory cease from among men;

²⁴ Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

²⁹ And God gave Solomon exceeding great wisdom and understanding, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the lip of the sea. ³⁰ And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt.

²² And king Solomon increased more than any of the kings of the earth for riches and wisdom.

¹¹ Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools; the advice of Pharaoh's wise counselors has become stupid. How can you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise ones, the son of kings of old?

⁴ young men in whom was no blemish, but who were of good appearance and having understanding in all wisdom, having knowledge and understanding learning, even those with strength in them to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the writing and the language of the Chaldeans.

¹⁷ As for these four boys, God gave them knowledge and skill in all writing and wisdom. And Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams. ¹⁸ And at the end of the days that the king had said to bring them in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. ¹⁹ And the king talked with them. And among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they stood before the king. ²⁰ And in any matter of wisdom and understanding that the king asked from them, he found them ten times better than. all the horoscopists and the conjurers who were in all his kingdom.

¹⁹ And He said to them, What things? And they said to Him, The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a man, a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

¹¹ And it happened in those days, even Moses was grown, and he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man strike a Hebrew man of his brothers. ¹² And he turned here and there and saw that no man was there. And he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

¹⁸ And Moses went and returned to his father-in-law Jethro, and said to him, Please let me go and return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

²¹ And they came, every one whose heart was lifted up, and everyone whose spirit made him willing. They brought the offering of Jehovah for the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.

²⁹ And every man and woman whose hearts made them willing to bring for all the work which Jehovah commanded to be done by the hand of Moses; the sons of Israel brought a willing offering to Jehovah.

¹⁷ And I know, my God, that You try the heart and are pleased with uprightness; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have offered willingly all these things; and now I have watched with joy Your people who are present here offering willingly to You. ¹⁸ O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart toward You; ¹⁹ and give a perfect heart to my son Solomon, to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies, and Your statutes, and to do all, even to build this magnificent house, for which I have prepared.

¹² Also, in Judah the hand of God was to give to them one heart to do the king's command, and of the leaders, by the word of Jehovah.

¹ And in the first year of Cyrus King of Persia, so that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, and he made a proclamation in all his kingdom, and also in writing, saying,

⁵ Then the chiefs of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, and everyone whose spirit God had awakened, rose up to go up to build the house of Jehovah which is in Jerusalem.

²⁷ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of our fathers, who has put this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem.

¹ As streams of waters, the king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; He turns it wherever He desires.

³⁶ And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, Indeed, having turned back, let us look after our brothers throughout every city in which we announced the Word of the Lord, how they are holding it.

¹⁶ But thanks be to God, who gives the same earnestness for you in the heart of Titus.

¹² So, then, my beloved, even as you always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much rather in my absence, cultivate your salvation with fear and trembling, ¹³ for it is God who is working in you both to will and to work for the sake of His good pleasure.

²⁴ Having become great, Moses by faith refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, ²⁵ having chosen rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than for a time to have enjoyment of sin; ²⁶ having counted the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

¹⁷ every act of good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom is no change or shadow of turning.

¹⁷ For God gave into their hearts to do His mind, and to act in one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

¹⁰ Then having a sword, Simon Peter drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. And the slave's name was Malchus. ¹¹ Then Jesus said to Peter, Put your sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father has given Me, shall I not at all drink it?

²⁵ And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself . Then they said to him, Are you not also of His disciples? He denied and said, I am not. ²⁶ One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, Did I not see you in the garden with Him? ²⁷ Then again Peter denied, and immediately a cock crowed.

²⁸ Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?" Ex. 2:14

⁴⁵ And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, he who did this great deliverance in Israel? Far be it! As Jehovah lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day. And the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

⁵ Yea, he has put his life in his hand and killed the Philistine And Jehovah worked a great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. And why do you sin against innocent blood, to put David to death for no reason?

¹ And Naaman the commander of the army of the king of Syria was a great and exalted man before his lord, for Jehovah had given deliverance to Syria by him. And he was a brave warrior, but leprous.

⁷ Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember Your many mercies, and they rebelled at the sea, at the Sea of Reeds.

³² But they did not know the word, and feared to question Him.

⁴⁵ But they did not understand this saying, and it was veiled from them so that they might not perceive it. And they feared to ask Him about this word.

³⁴ And they did not understand these things, nothing! And this saying had been hidden from them, and they did not know the things being said.

²⁷ And having arrived, and gathering the church, they reported what things God did with them and that He opened a door of faith to the nations.

⁴ And having arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders. And they reported what things God did with them.

⁷ And much disputation having occurred, rising up Peter said to them: Men, brothers, you recognize that from ancient days, God chose among us that through my mouth the nations should hear the Word of the gospel, and to believe.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he related one by one what things God had worked among the nations through his ministry.

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything which Christ did not work out through me for the obedience of the nations in word and work,

⁹ For we are fellow workers of God, a field of God, and you are a building of God.

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace which was toward me has not been without fruit, but I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

¹ But working together, we also call on you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

²⁹ for which also I labor, struggling according to the working of Him who works in me in power.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, Please let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are men, brothers.

²⁴ And he sent his brothers away; and they went. And he said to them, Do not quarrel along the way.

¹³ And he went out on the second day, and, behold, two men, Hebrews, were fighting. And he said to the guilty one, Why should you strike your neighbor? ¹⁴ And he said, Who appointed you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold! How good and how pleasant is the living of brothers, even in unity.

¹⁹ An offended brother is worse than a fortified city; yea, their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

¹⁷ These things I command you, that you love one another. ¹⁸ If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it has hated you.

⁶ But brother is judged with brother, and this before unbelievers! ⁷ Indeed, then, there is already a failure with you all, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded? ⁸ But you do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers!

¹ Then if there is any comfort in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tendernesses and compassions,

³ doing nothing according to party spirit or self-glory, but in humility, esteeming one another to surpass themselves;

¹¹ Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, ¹² not as Cain was of the evil one, and killed his brother. And for what did he kill him? Because his works were evil, but the things of his brother were righteous. ¹³ Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers. The one not loving the brother remains in death. ¹⁵ Everyone hating the brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have everlasting life abiding in him.

¹⁹ Behold, now, Your servant has found grace in Your sight, and You have magnified Your mercy which You have shown to me in saving my life. And I am not able to escape to the mountain lest some evil overtake me and I die.

¹⁴ And one young man of the youths told Abigail the wife of Nabal, saying, Behold, David has sent messengers out of the wilderness to bless our lord, and he screamed at them. ¹⁵ And the men were good to us, and have not shamed us, and we have not missed anything all the days we have gone up and down with them when we were in the field.

⁷ He who reproves a scorner gets shame to himself; and he who rebukes a wicked man gets his own blot. ⁸ Do not reprove a scorner, that he not hate you; rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

²³ And He, coming into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came near to Him as He was teaching, saying, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave this authority to you?

¹⁴ But He said to him, Man, who appointed Me a judge or a divider over you?

³⁶ Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would have fought that I might not be delivered up to the Jews. But now My kingdom is not from here. ³⁷ Then Pilate said to Him, Are you really a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might witness to the Truth. Everyone being of the Truth hears My voice.

¹² From this time, Pilate sought to release Him. But the Jews cried out, saying, If you release this one, you are not a friend of Caesar. Everyone making himself a king speaks against Caesar. ¹³ Then hearing this word, Pilate led Jesus out. And he sat down on the judgment seat, at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. ¹⁴ And it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, Behold, your king! ¹⁵ But they cried out, Away, Away! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.

¹³ The "God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob," "the God of our fathers," Ex. 3:15 glorified His child Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, that one having decided to set Him free. ¹⁴ But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a man, a murderer, to be granted to you. ¹⁵ And the Author of Life you killed, whom God raised up from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

⁷ And standing them in the midst, they were inquiring, By what sort of power, or by what sort of name did you do this?

¹¹ This One is the Stone counted worthless by you the builders, which has become to be the Head of the Corner; Psa. 118:22 ¹² and there is salvation in no other One, for neither is there any other name under Heaven having been given among men by which we must be saved.

³³ But those hearing were cut, and they took counsel to do away with them.

³⁵ This Moses, whom they denied, saying, Who appointed you a ruler and a judge, this one God has sent as ruler and redeemer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the Bush.

³⁹ to whom our fathers did not desire to be subject, but thrust him away, and turned their hearts back to Egypt,

⁵⁴ And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts and gnashed the teeth on him.

¹⁴ And he said, Who appointed you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well. ¹⁶ And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father's flocks. ¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses rose up and saved them, and watered their flocks. ¹⁸ And they came to their father Reuel; and he said, Why have you hurried to come today? ¹⁹ And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock. ²⁰ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, and let him eat bread. ²¹ And Moses consented to live with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. ²² And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land.

¹⁹ And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go! Return to Egypt. For all the men are dead, those seeking your life. ²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons and made them ride on an ass. And he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.

² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, (after Moses had sent her away,) ³ and her two sons, of one's name was Gershom (for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land;) ⁴ and one's name was Eliezer (for the God of my father was my Help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh).

⁷ And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a well of water in the wilderness; by the well in the way of Shur. ⁸ And He said, Hagar, Sarai's slave-girl, where did you come from? And where do you go? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress, Sarai. ⁹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her hand. ¹⁰ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude. ¹¹ And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, Behold! You are with child and shall bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah has attended to your affliction. ¹² And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers. ¹³ And she called the name of Jehovah, the One speaking to her, You, a God of vision! For she said, Even here I have looked after the One seeing me?

¹⁵ And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham out of the heavens a second time. ¹⁶ And He said, I have sworn by Myself, declares Jehovah, that on account of this thing you have done, and not have withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷ that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the shore of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies. ¹⁸ And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.

²⁴ And Jacob was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until the ascending of the dawn. ²⁵ And He saw that He had not prevailed against him. And He touched on his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was unhinged as he wrestled with Him. ²⁶ And He said, Send me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let you go unless You bless me. ²⁷ And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob. ²⁸ And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and have prevailed. ²⁹ And Jacob asked and said, Please reveal Your name. And He said, Why this that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there. ³⁰ And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me since I was born until today; ¹⁶ The Angel that redeemed me from every evil, may He bless the youths; and may my name be called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they like the fishes increase into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

¹ And Moses was feeding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. ² And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to him in a flame of fire from the middle of a thorn bush. And he looked, and behold, the thorn bush was burning with fire, and the thorn bush was not burned up!

⁶ And He said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he feared to look upon God.

⁷ And Moses was a son of eighty years, and Aaron was a son of eighty three years when they spoke to Pharaoh.

¹ In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai. ² And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai. And they camped in the wilderness. And Israel camped there before the mountain.

²⁰ And Jehovah has taken you, and has brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people to Him, an inheritance, as it is this day.

¹⁶ and with the best of the earth, and its fullness; and the good will of Him who dwelt in the Bush; let it come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the consecrated one of his brothers.

⁸ And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the power of that food forty days and forty nights to the mount of God, Horeb.

¹² You have let men ride at our head; we went through fire and through water, but You brought us out to plenty.

⁹ In all their affliction, He was not a foe; and the Angel of his Face saved them. In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

²⁷ {cf9 : And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's officials assembled. And they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power, and the hair of their head was not scorched, nor were their slippers changed, nor had the smell of fire clung on them.}

³ He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he contended with God. ⁴ Yes, he wept and pleaded to Him, and he contended with the Angel and overcame. He found us at Bethel, and He spoke with us there, ⁵ even Jehovah, the God of hosts. Jehovah is his memorial.

¹ Behold, I am sending My messenger, and He will clear the way before Me. And the Lord whom you are seeking shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Angel of the Covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He comes, says Jehovah of hosts.

²⁶ But concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, as God spoke to him at the Bush, saying, "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob"? Ex. 3:6

³⁷ But that the dead are raised, even Moses pointed out at the Bush, when he calls the Lord "the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Ex. 3:6

¹⁷ But as the time of the promise drew near, which God swore to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

³² "I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Ex. 3:6, 15 But becoming trembly, Moses did not dare to look.

²⁵ for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and she slaves with her children),

³ And Moses said, I will turn aside now and see this great sight, why the thorn bush is not burned up. ⁴ And Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the thorn bush, and said, Moses! Moses! And he said, Behold me.

¹³ And, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed. ¹⁵ And, behold, I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have spoken to you. ¹⁶ And Jacob awakened from his sleep, and said, Surely Jehovah is in this place, and I did not know. ¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is nothing except the house of God, and this is the door to Heaven.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying, and God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁵ And God said to Moses again, You shall say this to the sons of Israel, Jehovah the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation.

⁵ so that they may believe that Jehovah the God of their fathers has appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

²⁰ And he said, You are not able to see My face; for no man can see Me and live.

¹³ And it happened when Elijah heard, he wrapped his face in his robe and went out and stood at the cave opening; and, behold, a voice came to him, and it said, What are you doing here, Elijah?

¹⁴ fear and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread.

¹ My heart also trembles at this, and it leaps from its place. ² Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out from His mouth.

⁵ I have heard of You by hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen You; ⁶ Therefore, I despise myself, and I have repented on dust and ashes.

⁷ God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him.

¹ In the year that king Uzziah died, then I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up. And His train filled the temple. ² Above it stood the seraphs. Each one had six wings; with two he covered his face; and with two he covered his feet; and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory! ⁴ And the doorposts shook from the voice of the one who cried; and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ Then I said, Woe is me! For I am cut off; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live amongst a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

⁷ And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision. For the men who were with me did not see the vision. But a great trembling fell on them so that they fled to hide themselves. ⁸ Then I was left alone, and I saw his great vision, and there remained no strength in me. For my glory was turned within me into corruption, and I kept no strength.

⁶ And hearing, the disciples fell on their face and were greatly terrified.

³² "I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?" God is not God of the dead, but of the living. Ex. 3:6

⁸ And seeing, Simon Peter fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.

¹³ The "God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob," "the God of our fathers," Ex. 3:15 glorified His child Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, that one having decided to set Him free.

⁴ And falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute Me? ⁵ And he said, Sir, who are you? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the prods. ⁶ Both trembling and being astonished he said, Lord, what do you desire me to do? And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the city, and it will be told you what you must do.

¹⁶ But now they stretch forth to a better, that is, a heavenly land . Therefore, God is not ashamed of them, for Him to be called their God; for He prepared a city for them.

¹⁷ And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet, as dead. And He put His right hand on me, saying to me, Do not fear. I am the First and the Last,

⁵ And He said, Do not come near here pull off your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

¹⁵ And the Commander of the army of Jehovah said to Joshua, Take your shoe off your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy. And Joshua did so.

¹ Guard your feet when you go to the house of God, and draw near to hear, more than to give a sacrifice, as do the fools. For they do not know that they are doing evil.

¹⁸ even we heard this voice being borne out of Heaven, being with Him in the holy mountain,

⁵ And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built.

⁷ Come, let Us go down and confuse their language so that they cannot understand one another's speech.

²¹ I will go down and see if they have at all done according to the cry coming to Me. And if not, I will know.

²³ And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery. ²⁴ And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. ²⁵ And God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew them .

⁷ And Jehovah said, I have certainly seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry from before their slave-drivers; for I know his sorrows. ⁸ And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite. ⁹ And now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me, and I also have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. ¹⁰ And now, come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you bring My people out, the sons of Israel out of Egypt.

¹⁴ And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and He said, you shall say this to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.

³¹ And the people believed. And they heard that Jehovah had visited the sons of Israel, and that He had seen their affliction. And they bowed and worshiped.

⁵ And I also have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are enslaving. And I have remembered My covenant. ⁶ Therefore, say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and will deliver you from their slavery. And I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.

¹⁷ And I shall come down and speak with you there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon you, and will put it on them; and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.

¹⁸ And when Jehovah raised up judges to them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and rescued them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groaning before their oppressors, and those that crushed them.

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel said to Jehovah, We have sinned. Do to us whatever may be good in Your eyes; only please deliver us his day. ¹⁶ And they removed the gods of the alien from among them, and served Jehovah. And His soul was grieved with the misery of Israel.

⁹ And You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds.

²⁶ He sent His servant Moses and Aaron whom He had chosen.

⁴⁴ And He looked on their affliction when He heard their shout;

⁵ Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah; and come down; touch the mountains and they shall smoke.

⁸ For He said, Surely they are My people, sons that do not lie, and He is their Savior. ⁹ In all their affliction, He was not a foe; and the Angel of his Face saved them. In His love and in His pity He redeemed them. And He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

¹ Oh that You would tear the heavens and come down, that mountains would quake before You.

¹³ And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

⁴ For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves; and I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you.

¹³ And no one has gone up into Heaven, except He having come down out of Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven.

³⁸ For I have come down out of Heaven, not that I should do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

¹⁹ And the Angel of God withdrew, the One going before the camp of Israel. And He went behind them. And the pillar of cloud withdrew from before them, and it stood behind them.

²⁴ And it happened in the morning watch: Jehovah looked on the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and cloud. And He confused the camp of the Egyptians.

²⁰ Behold, I am about to send an Angel before you, to guard you in the way, and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Be on guard before Him, and listen to His voice. Do not be rebellious against Him, for He will not forgive your transgressions; for My name is in Him. ²² For if you fully listen to His voice, and do all which I speak, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and will be a foe to your foes. ²³ For My Angel shall go before you and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off.

³⁴ And now go, lead the people to that place which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before your face. And in the day of My visitation I will visit their sin on them.

² And I will send an angel before your face, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite;

¹² And Moses said to Jehovah, Behold, You are saying to me, Cause this people to go up. And You, You have not told me whom You will send with me. And yet You have said, I know you by name, and also you have found favor in My eyes. ¹³ And now, if I have found favor in Your eyes, please make me see Your ways, and let me know You, so that I may find favor in Your eyes; and consider that this nation is Your people. ¹⁴ And He said, My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. ¹⁵ And the said to Him, If Your presence does not go, do not cause us to go up from here.

¹⁶ And we cried to Jehovah, and He heard our voice, and sent a messenger, and is bringing us out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.

⁷ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people, to all that they say to you. For they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them. ⁸ According to all the works that they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day, when they forsook Me and served other gods, so they are also doing to you.

²⁷ But the sons of worthlessness said, How can this one deliver us? And they despised him and did not bring a gift to him. But he was as one keeping silent.

⁸ When Jacob came into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Jehovah, then Jehovah sent Moses and Aaron; and they brought your fathers out from Egypt and made them dwell in this place.

¹⁰ And You gave signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of the land. For You knew that they were seething against them. And You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day. ¹¹ And You divided the Sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the Sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the deep, like a stone into the mighty waters. ¹² And You led them in the day by a cloudy pillar, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go. ¹³ And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments. ¹⁴ And You made Your holy sabbath known to them, and You commanded commandments, statutes, and laws, to them by the hand of Your servant Moses.

⁷ but God is the judge; He puts down this one and lifts up this other .

²⁰ You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁷ He raises up the poor from the dust; He lifts the needy out of the dunghill; ⁸ in order to make him sit with nobles, with the nobles of his people.

²² The Stone which the builders rejected has become the Head of the corner. ²³ This is from Jehovah, it is marvelous in our eyes.

¹¹ Then His people remembered the days past of Moses and His people, saying, Where is He who brought us up from the sea with the shepherd of His flock. Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within him; ¹² who led them by Moses' right hand, with His glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make for Him an everlasting name?

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, We do not desire this one to reign over us.

⁴⁰ Then all cried out again, saying, Not this one, but Barabbas! But Barabbas was a robber.

¹⁵ But they cried out, Away, Away! Crucify him! Pilate said to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king except Caesar.

³⁶ Then assuredly, let all the house of Israel acknowledge that God made Him both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus whom you crucified.

²² For Moses indeed said to the fathers, " The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, One like me; you shall hear Him according to all things," whatever He may speak to you. See Deut. 18:15-16, 19

³¹ This One God has exalted as a Ruler and Savior to His right hand, to give to Israel repentance and remission of sins.

⁹ And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him into Egypt. But God was with him, ¹⁰ and plucked him out from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh the king of Egypt. And Pharaoh appointed him governor over Egypt and all his household. ¹¹ But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. And our fathers did not find food. ¹² But hearing grain was in Egypt, Jacob sent our fathers out first. ¹³ And at the second time, Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race became known to Pharaoh. ¹⁴ And sending, Joseph called his father Jacob and all his kindred, "seventy five" "souls" "in all ". Gen. 46:27 ¹⁵ And Jacob went down into Egypt and expired, he and our fathers.

²⁷ But the one wronging the neighbor thrust him away, saying, "Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ Do you not want to do away with me in the way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday?" Ex. 2:14

³⁰ And forty years being fulfilled to him, the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.

⁵¹ Oh stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and in the ears! You always fell against the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, you also did .

¹⁵ who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

² For if the word spoken by angels was confirmed, and every transgression and disobedience received a just repayment;

³ And they sing the song of Moses the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty, righteous and true are Your ways, King of the saints.

⁴¹ And it happened, from the end of four hundred and thirty years, it happened on this day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

²¹ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night. And He made the sea dry land, and the waters divided.

²⁷ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its usual flow, at the turning of the morning, and the Egyptians were fleeing to meet it. And Jehovah shook off the Egyptians into the middle of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, together with all the army of Pharaoh, those going after them into the sea. And not even one was left among them. ²⁹ And the sons of Israel walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the waters being a wall for them, from their right and from their left.

²³ And they came to Marah. And they were not able to drink water from Marah, for it was bitter. Therefore, one called its name Marah. ²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? ²⁵ And he cried to Jehovah, and Jehovah showed him a tree. And he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. He made a statute and an ordinance for them there, and He tested them there.

¹ And they pulled out from Elim And all the congregation of the sons of Israel came into the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their going out from the land of Egypt. ² And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness. ³ And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the fleshpots, in our eating bread to satisfaction. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill all this assembly with hunger. ⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I AM! Bread will rain from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather the matter of a day in its day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. ⁵ And it shall be on the sixth day they shall prepare what they bring in. And it shall be double what they gather day by day. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, At evening. you shall know that Jehovah has brought you from the land of Egypt; ⁷ and in the morning you shall see the glory of Jehovah, in His hearing your murmurings against Jehovah. And we, what are we that you murmur against us? ⁸ And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you flesh to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning, to satisfaction; when Jehovah hears your murmurings which you are murmuring against Him, you will see . And what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah. ⁹ And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, Come near before Jehovah; for He has heard your murmurings. ¹⁰ And it happened, as Aaron was speaking to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, they turned toward the wilderness. And, behold! The glory of Jehovah appeared in the cloud! ¹¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹² I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel. Speak to them, saying, Between the evenings you shall eat flesh; and in the morning you shall be satisfied with bread; and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God. ¹³ And it happened in the evening: the quail came up and covered the camp. And in the morning a layer of dew was around the camp. ¹⁴ And the layer of dew went up, and, behold, something small was on the face of the wilderness, scalelike, small like the hoarfrost on the earth. ¹⁵ And the sons of Israel looked. And they said, each one to his brother, What is that? For they did not know what it was . And Moses said to them, That is the bread which Jehovah has given to you for food. ¹⁶ This is the thing which Jehovah commanded. Gather from it, each one according to the mouth of his eating; an omer for a head. By the number of your souls you shall take for each man who is in your tent. ¹⁷ And so the sons of Israel did. And they gathered; the one gathering much and the one gathering little.

³⁵ And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until their coming into an inhabited land. They ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan.

¹ In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai. ² And they pulled up stakes from Rephidim and came to the wilderness of Sinai. And they camped in the wilderness. And Israel camped there before the mountain. ³ And Moses went up to God. And Jehovah called to him from the mountain, saying, You shall say this to the house of Jacob, and tell it to the sons of Israel. ⁴ You have seen what I did to Egypt; and I bore you on wings of eagles and brought you to Me. ⁵ And now if you will surely listen to My voice, and will keep My covenant, you shall become a special treasure to Me above all the nations, for all the earth is Mine. ⁶ And you shall become a kingdom of priests for Me, a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel. ⁷ And Moses came and called the elders of the people. And he put all these words before them which Jehovah commanded him. ⁸ And all the people answered together and said, All which Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a darkness of clouds, so that the people may hear My speaking with you, and in you they may believe forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah. ¹⁰ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow. And let them wash their clothes. ¹¹ And be ready for the third day. For on the third day Jehovah will go down before the eyes of all the people on the mountain of Sinai. ¹² And you shall set limits to the people all around, saying, Be careful for yourselves, not going up into the mountain and touching its border; everyone touching the mountain shall surely be killed. ¹³ Not a hand shall touch him, but surely he shall be stoned, or surely he shall be shot through. He shall not live, whether animal or man. At the sounding of the ram's horn, they shall go up into the mountain. ¹⁴ And Moses went from the mountain to the people. And he sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not approach a woman. ¹⁶ And on the third day, it being morning, it happened: There were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a ram's horn, very strong! And all the people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses caused the people to go up from the camp to meet God. And they took their stand at the lower part of the mountain. ¹⁸ And the mountain of Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Jehovah came down on it in fire. And its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace; and the mountain quaked exceedingly. ¹⁹ And it happened while the sound of the ram's horn was sounding, and becoming very strong, Moses spoke. And God answered him by a voice. ²⁰ And Jehovah came down on the mountain of Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

¹ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Come, go up from here, you and the people whom you have caused to go up out from the land of Egypt, to the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed.

¹⁵ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony. And at evening there was on the tabernacle the appearance of fire, until morning. ¹⁶ so it was always; the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. ¹⁷ And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, then after that the sons of Israel pulled up stakes; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the sons of Israel encamped. ¹⁸ By the mouth of Jehovah the sons of Israel pulled up; and by the mouth of Jehovah they encamped. All the days that the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained in camp. ¹⁹ And when the cloud tarried over the tabernacle many days, then the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and did not pull up. ²⁰ And when the cloud was over the tabernacle many days, by the mouth of Jehovah they encamped, and by the mouth of Jehovah they pulled up stakes . ²¹ And so when the cloud was there from evening until morning, when the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they pulled up. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud was taken up, then they pulled up stakes ²² Whether two days, or a month, or days, when the cloud tarried over the tabernacle, to remain over it, the sons of Israel remained in camp, and did not pull up. And when it was lifted up, they pulled up stakes . ²³ By the mouth of Jehovah they encamped, and by the mouth of Jehovah they pulled up stakes . They kept the charge of Jehovah, by the mouth of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

¹ And the people were evil, as those complaining in the ears of Jehovah. And Jehovah heard, and His anger glowed, and the fire of Jehovah burned among them and devoured in the extreme edge of the camp. ² And the people cried to Moses, and Moses prayed to Jehovah, and the fire was quenched. ³ And he called the name of that place Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burned among them. ⁴ And the mixed multitude among them lusted with a great lust; and the sons of Israel also turned back and wept, and said, Who shall cause us to eat flesh? ⁵ We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; ⁶ and now our soul withers. There is nothing except this manna before our eyes. ⁷ And the manna was like coriander seed, and its look like the look of bdellium resin gum. ⁸ And the people went around and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in a pan, and made it into cakes. And its taste was like the taste of fresh oil. ⁹ And when the dew came down on the camp by night, the manna came down on it. ¹⁰ And Moses heard the people weeping by its families, each at the door of his tent; and the anger of Jehovah glowed exceedingly, and in the eyes of Moses it was evil. ¹¹ And Moses said to Jehovah, Why have You done evil to Your servant; and why have I not found grace in Your eyes to put the burden of all this people on me? ¹² I, have I conceived all this people? I, have I begotten it, that You say to me, Carry it in your bosom as the foster father bears the suckling, to the land which You have sworn to its fathers? ¹³ Where shall I get flesh to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, Give to us flesh that we may eat. ¹⁴ I am not able, I alone, to bear all this people, for it is too heavy for me; ¹⁵ and if You deal thus with me, please quickly kill me, if I have found grace in Your eyes, and let me not look on my affliction. ¹⁶ And Jehovah said to Moses, assemble to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you have known that they are elders of the people, and its officers. And you shall take them to the tabernacle of the congregation; and they shall station themselves there with you. ¹⁷ And I shall come down and speak with you there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon you, and will put it on them; and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone. ¹⁸ And you shall say to the people, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat flesh. For you have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who shall give us flesh, for we had good in Egypt? And Jehovah shall give flesh to you, and you shall eat. ¹⁹ You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, nor ten days, nor twenty days; ²⁰ but to a month of days, until it comes out of your nostrils, and it shall become to you a loathsome thing; because you have loathed Jehovah, who is in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is it that we have come out of Egypt? ²¹ And Moses said, The people in whose midst I am are six hundred thousand footmen; and You, You have said, I shall give flesh to them, and they shall eat a month of days. ²² Shall flock and herd be slaughtered for them, so one may find for them? Ar all the fish in the sea to be gathered for them, that one may find for them? ²³ And Jehovah said to Moses, Is the hand of Jehovah shortened? Now you shall see whether My word shall come to pass to you or not. ²⁴ And Moses went out and spoke to the people the words of Jehovah and gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and caused them to stand around the tabernacle. ²⁵ And Jehovah came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took of the spirit which was on him, and put it on the seventy men of the elders. And it happened, as the spirit rested on them, that they prophesied, but they did not continue. ²⁶ And two of the men were left in the camp, the name of the one being Eldad, and the name of the second Medad; and the spirit rested on them, and they were among those written, but did not go out to the tabernacle And they prophesied in the camp. ²⁷ And a young man ran and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp. ²⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun, minister to Moses, of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, stop them. ²⁹ And Moses said to him, Are you jealous for my sake? Oh that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put His spirit on them! ³⁰ And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. ³¹ And a wind went forth from Jehovah and cut off quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as a day's journey here, and as a day's journey there, all around the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the land. ³² And the people rose up all that day, and all that night, and the day after, and gathered the quails; he who had least had gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves around the camp. ³³ The flesh was yet between their teeth, it was not yet cut off, and the anger of Jehovah glowed among the people. And Jehovah struck among the people with a very great plague. ³⁴ And one called the name of that place, The Graves of Lust; for there they buried the people who lusted. ³⁵ From the Graves of Lust the people pulled up to go to Hazeroth, and they remained in Hazeroth.

¹ And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept during that night. ² And all the sons of Israel murmured against Moses, and against Aaron. And all the congregation said to them, Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt, or in this wilderness, oh that we had died! ³ And why is Jehovah bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our infants shall become a prey. Is it not good for us to return to Egypt? ⁴ And they said each to his brother, Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt. ⁵ And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel. ⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who spied out the land, tore their garments. ⁷ And they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, The land into which we passed, to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. ⁸ If Jehovah has delighted in us, then He will bring us into this land and will give it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey. ⁹ Only, do not rebel against Jehovah. And you, do not fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their defense has turned away from them; and Jehovah is with us; do not be afraid of them. ¹⁰ And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation, to all the sons of Israel. ¹¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise Me? And How long will they continue not to believe in Me, for all the signs which I have done in its midst? ¹² I shall strike it with pestilence and dispossess it. And I will make you a nation greater and mightier than it. ¹³ And Moses said to Jehovah, And the Egyptians will hear. For You have brought up this people out of their midst with Your power. ¹⁴ And they will say to the inhabitant of this land, They have heard that You, Jehovah, are in the midst of this people, who is seen eye with eye. You are Jehovah, and Your cloud stands over them; in a pillar of cloud You go before them by day, and in a pillar of fire by night. ¹⁵ And will You execute this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because Jehovah is not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness. ¹⁷ And now, I beseech You, let the power of my Lord be great, as You have spoken, saying, ¹⁸ Jehovah is slow to anger, and of great mercy, bearing away iniquity and transgression; and by no means will clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons, on the third and on the fourth generation . ¹⁹ I beseech You, forgive the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of Your mercy, and as You have gone with this people from Egypt, even until now. ²⁰ And Jehovah said, I have forgiven according to your words; ²¹ but as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; ²² for all the men who are seeing My glory, and My miracles which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tried Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice, ²³ they shall not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers. Yea, not one of those scorning Me shall see it. ²⁴ And My servant Caleb, because there is another spirit in him, and he is fully following Me, I shall bring him into the land into which he has gone, and his seed shall possess it. ²⁵ And the Amalekite and the Canaanite were living in the valley. Tomorrow turn and pull up stakes for yourselves; going into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds. ²⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²⁷ Until when shall I bear with this evil company who are murmuring against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against Me. ²⁸ Say to them, As I live, says Jehovah, as surely as you have spoken in My ears, so I will do to you. ²⁹ Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered ones, as to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, in that you have murmured against Me. ³⁰ You shall certainly not come into the land which I lifted up My hand to cause you to live in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. ³¹ As for your infants, of whom you have said, They shall be a prey, I shall bring them in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected. ³² As for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness. ³³ And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your fornications until your carcases are wasted in the wilderness; ³⁴ by the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a day for a year, a day for a year; you shall bear your iniquities forty years; you shall know My alienation from you . ³⁵ I am Jehovah; I shall spoken. I shall do this to all this evil company who are gathered together against Me. They shall be brought to an end in this wilderness, and there they shall die. ³⁶ And the men whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, and who, when they returned, made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, ³⁷ even those men bringing up an evil report of the land died by the plague before Jehovah. ³⁸ But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. ³⁹ And Moses told these words to all the sons of Israel; and the people mourned deeply. ⁴⁰ And they rose up early in the morning and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, Behold, we are here, and we will go up to the place which Jehovah has said, for we have sinned. ⁴¹ And Moses said, Why do you now transgress the mouth of Jehovah, since it will not prosper? ⁴² Do not go up, for Jehovah is not in your midst, even that you shall not be defeated by your enemies. ⁴³ For the Amalekite and the Canaanite are there before you; and you shall fall by the sword because you have turned back from following Jehovah; and Jehovah is not with you. ⁴⁴ And they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, but the ark of the covenant of Jehovah and Moses did not leave the middle of the camp. ⁴⁵ And the Amalekite and the Canaanite living in that mountain came down and struck them, and beat them down, to Hormah.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, took both Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben; ² and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, elect men of the assembly, men of name. ³ And they were assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much! For all the congregation, all of them are holy, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah? ⁴ And Moses heard and fell on his face. ⁵ And he spoke to Korah, and to all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are His, and him who is holy, and shall cause him to come near Him; even him whom He may choose, He will cause to come near to Him. ⁶ Do this: take fire-pans for yourselves, Korah, and all his company, ⁷ and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Jehovah tomorrow; and it shall be, the man whom Jehovah chooses, he shall be the holy one. You take too much, sons of Levi! ⁸ And Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi, ⁹ is it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? ¹⁰ Yea, He has brought you near, and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. And will you seek the priesthood also? ¹¹ Therefore, you and all your company that have gathered against Jehovah, What is Aaron that you murmur against him? ¹² And Moses sent to call for Dathan and for Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not come up. ¹³ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also certainly seize dominion over us? ¹⁴ Yea, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance in fields and vineyards; will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up! ¹⁵ And Moses was very angry, and said to Jehovah, Do not respect their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, nor have I done evil to one of them. ¹⁶ And Moses said to Korah, You and all your company, you be there before Jehovah, you and they, and Aaron tomorrow. ¹⁷ And each one take his fire-pan, and you shall put incense on them, and shall offer before Jehovah, each his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; even you and Aaron, each his fire-pan.

¹ And the sons of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month; and the people remained in Kadesh. And Miriam died there, and was buried there. ² And there was no water for the congregation, and they were gathered against Moses, and against Aaron. ³ And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Oh that we had died when our brothers died before Jehovah! ⁴ And, why have you brought the assembly of Jehovah to this wilderness to die there, we and our animals? ⁵ And, why have you brought us up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place, not a place of seed, nor fig, nor vine, nor pomegranate; and there is no water to drink? ⁶ And Moses and Aaron went in from the eyes of the assembly, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; and fell on their faces. And the glory of Jehovah appeared to them. ⁷ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁸ Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you and your brother Aaron. And speak to the rock before their eyes. And it shall give forth its water; and you shall bring water out of the rock to them; so you shall water the congregation and their animals. ⁹ And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as He commanded him. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron assembled the congregation before the rock. And he said to them, Hear now, you rebels, shall we bring forth water to you out of this rock? ¹¹ And Moses lifted up his hand and smote the rock with his rod twice; and much water came out; and the congregation and their animals drank. ¹² And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, Because you did not believe in Me, to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore you shall not bring in this congregation to the land which I have given to them. ¹³ These are the Waters of Strife, because the sons of Israel contended with Jehovah, and He was sanctified upon them. ¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: So says your brother Israel, You surely have known all the travail which has found us; ¹⁵ that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians did evil to us and to our fathers. ¹⁶ And we cried to Jehovah, and He heard our voice, and sent a messenger, and is bringing us out of Egypt; and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border. ¹⁷ Please let us pass over, through your land; we shall not pass over through a field, nor through a vineyard, nor shall we drink water of a well; we shall go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed your border. ¹⁸ And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you. ¹⁹ And the sons of Israel said to him, We shall go in the highway; and if we drink of your waters, our cattle and us, then I shall give their price. Only let me pass through on my feet; there shall be no harm. ²⁰ And he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. ²¹ And Edom refused to allow Israel to pass over through his border. And Israel turned away from him.

²⁵ Today I will begin to put your dread and your fear on the face of the people under all the heavens, who will hear your fame, and will tremble and writhe because of you. ²⁶ And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ Let me pass on the highway through your land; I will go on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or the left; ²⁸ you shall sell me food for silver, and I shall eat; and you shall give me water for silver, and I will drink. Only, let me pass through on my feet, ²⁹ as the sons of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, have done to me, until I have crossed over the Jordan, to the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us. ³⁰ And Sihon the king of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass by him, for Jehovah your God had hardened his spirit, and had emboldened his heart, so as to give him into your hand, as it is this day. ³¹ And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you; begin to possess, in order to possess his land. ³² And Sihon came out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And Jehovah our God delivered him before us, and we struck him and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, men and women and little ones. We did not leave a remnant. ³⁵ Only, we plundered the cattle for ourselves, and we took the plunder of the cities. ³⁶ From Aroer, which is by the edge of the Arnon River, and the city beside the river, even to Gilead, there was not a city which was too high for us. Jehovah our God delivered all before us. ³⁷ Only, you did not come near to the land of the sons of Ammon, any part of the Jabbok River, and the cities of the hill country, and all which Jehovah our God had forbidden us.

³³ as a people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and lived? ³⁴ Or has God gone forth to take to Himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? ³⁵ To you it was revealed, so that you might know that Jehovah is God, and no one else besides Him. ³⁶ He made you hear His voice out of the heavens, that He might discipline you; and He made you to see His great fire on earth; and you heard His word from the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And because He loved your fathers, and chose their seed after them, and brought you out with His presence, with His great power, out of Egypt,

²¹ Then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt, and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. ²² And Jehovah gave signs and great and grievous wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household, before our eyes.

⁴ Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.

¹⁰ And You gave signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of the land. For You knew that they were seething against them. And You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day.

¹² And You led them in the day by a cloudy pillar, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go. ¹³ And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments. ¹⁴ And You made Your holy sabbath known to them, and You commanded commandments, statutes, and laws, to them by the hand of Your servant Moses. ¹⁵ And You gave them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst. And You said to them that they should go in to possess the land which You had raised Your hand to give them.

¹⁸ Yea, when they had made a casted calf for themselves, and said, This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt, and had worked great blasphemies, ¹⁹ Yet You in Your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go. ²⁰ You also gave Your good Spirit to teach them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. ²¹ Yea, forty years You sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell. ²² And You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and divided them to corners. And they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.

¹² He did wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan. ¹³ He divided the sea and passed them through; and He caused the waters to stand in a heap. ¹⁴ And He led them by a cloud in the day, and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ He split the rocks in the wilderness and made them drink, as from great floods. ¹⁶ And He brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like torrents. ¹⁷ Yet they sinned still more against Him, to provoke the Most High in the desert. ¹⁸ And they tested God in their heart, by asking food for their souls. ¹⁹ And they spoke against God, saying, Shall God be able to set a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ Behold! He struck the rock and the waters gushed out, and the torrents overflowed. Can He also give bread? Will He provide flesh for His people? ²¹ So Jehovah heard and He was made furious; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and also anger went up against Israel, ²² because they did not believe in God and trusted not in His salvation. ²³ And He commanded the fine clouds above; and He opened the doors of the heavens; ²⁴ and He rained on them manna to eat; and He gave the grain of the heavens to them. ²⁵ Man ate the bread of the mighty; He sent them food to the full. ²⁶ He made an east wind blow in the heavens; and He led out the south wind by His power. ²⁷ Yea, He rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds as the sand of the seas. ²⁸ And He made them fall amidst their camp, all around to their tents. ²⁹ They ate and were filled full; for their own lust He brought to them. ³⁰ They were not estranged from their lust; their food was still in their mouths, ³¹ and God's wrath came on them and killed the fattest of them; and He struck down the choice ones of Israel. ³² In all this they sinned still, and did not believe in His wonderful works; ³³ and He ended their days in vanity, and their years in sudden terror.

⁴² They did not remember His hand, on the day He redeemed them from the enemy;

¹⁰ For forty years I was disgusted with this generation; and I said, They are a people who err in heart; and, They do not know My ways,

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night. ⁴⁰ He asked, and He brought quail; and satisfied them with the food from the heavens. ⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; they went in the dry places like a river. ⁴² For He remembered His holy word and His servant Abraham; ⁴³ and He brought His people out with joy; His chosen ones with gladness. ⁴⁴ And He gave to them the lands of the nations; and they inherited the labor of the peoples; ⁴⁵ so that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise Jehovah!

⁸ But He saved them for His name's sake, to make known His might. ⁹ And He rebuked the Sea of Reeds; and it dried up; and He made them go through the depths as through the wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saved them from the hand of the hater, and ransomed him from the hand of the enemy; ¹¹ and waters covered their enemies; not one of them was left.

¹⁷ the earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; and covered the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And a fire burned in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

⁸ He who struck the first-born of Egypt, from man to animal; ⁹ who sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, on Pharaoh and on all his servants; ¹⁰ who struck great nations, and killed mighty kings; ¹¹ Sihon king Of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan. ¹² And He gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance to His people Israel.

⁹ the moon and the stars to rule by night; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁰ to Him who struck Egypt in her first-born; for His mercy endures forever; ¹¹ and brought Israel out from among them; for His mercy endures forever; ¹² with a strong hand and a stretched out arm; for His mercy endures forever; ¹³ to Him who divided the Sea of Reeds into parts; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁴ and made Israel pass through the middle of it; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁵ but shook Pharaoh and his army off in the Sea of Reeds; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁶ to Him who led His people in the wilderness; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁷ to Him who struck great kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁸ and killed majestic kings; for His mercy endures forever; ¹⁹ Sihon, king of the Amorites; for His mercy endures forever; ²⁰ and Og, the king of Bashan; for His mercy endures forever; ²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance; for His mercy endures forever;

⁴² But God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets: "Did you bring slain beasts and sacrifices to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

¹⁸ And as forty years time passed, He tenderly bore them in the wilderness. Deut. 1:31

⁹ not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day of My taking hold of their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord.

¹⁵ Jehovah your God shall raise up to you a Prophet from among you, of your brothers, One like me; you shall listen to Him, ¹⁶ according to all that you desired of Jehovah your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, nor let me see this great fire any more, lest I die. ¹⁷ And Jehovah said to me, They have spoken well, what they have said. ¹⁸ I shall raise up a Prophet to them from among their brothers, one like you; and I will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak to them all that I shall command Him. ¹⁹ And it shall be, whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I will require it at his hand.

²² And in the time of his distress he added to act slyly against Jehovah, this king Ahaz;

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is of the exiled sons of Judah, has not set attention on you, O king, or the ban that you have signed, but he makes his prayer three times in the day.

³ And, behold! Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. ⁴ And answering, Peter said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You will, let us make three tents here, one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. ⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold, a radiant cloud overshadowed them. And, behold, a voice out of the cloud saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight; hear Him. Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Isa. 42:1; Deut. 18:15

⁷ And a cloud was overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My Son," the Beloved; hear Him. Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Deut. 18:15

³⁰ And, behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah. ³¹ Appearing in glory, they spoke of His exodus, which He was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.

³⁵ And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved; hear Him! Psa. 2:7; Isa. 42:1; Deut. 18:15

⁴⁶ Who of you reproves Me concerning sin? But if I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? ⁴⁷ The one who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear, because you are not of God.

³⁷ Then Pilate said to Him, Are you really a king? Jesus answered, You say that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, that I might witness to the Truth. Everyone being of the Truth hears My voice.

²² For Moses indeed said to the fathers, " The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, One like me; you shall hear Him according to all things," whatever He may speak to you. See Deut. 18:15-16, 19 ²³ And it shall be that of every soul, whoever should not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

³⁸ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him in Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living words to give to us,

³ And Moses went up to God. And Jehovah called to him from the mountain, saying, You shall say this to the house of Jacob, and tell it to the sons of Israel. ⁴ You have seen what I did to Egypt; and I bore you on wings of eagles and brought you to Me. ⁵ And now if you will surely listen to My voice, and will keep My covenant, you shall become a special treasure to Me above all the nations, for all the earth is Mine. ⁶ And you shall become a kingdom of priests for Me, a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel. ⁷ And Moses came and called the elders of the people. And he put all these words before them which Jehovah commanded him. ⁸ And all the people answered together and said, All which Jehovah has spoken we will do. And Moses brought back the words of the people to Jehovah. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, I come to you in a darkness of clouds, so that the people may hear My speaking with you, and in you they may believe forever. And Moses told the words of the people to Jehovah. ¹⁰ And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow. And let them wash their clothes. ¹¹ And be ready for the third day. For on the third day Jehovah will go down before the eyes of all the people on the mountain of Sinai. ¹² And you shall set limits to the people all around, saying, Be careful for yourselves, not going up into the mountain and touching its border; everyone touching the mountain shall surely be killed. ¹³ Not a hand shall touch him, but surely he shall be stoned, or surely he shall be shot through. He shall not live, whether animal or man. At the sounding of the ram's horn, they shall go up into the mountain. ¹⁴ And Moses went from the mountain to the people. And he sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready for the third day. Do not approach a woman. ¹⁶ And on the third day, it being morning, it happened: There were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a ram's horn, very strong! And all the people in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses caused the people to go up from the camp to meet God. And they took their stand at the lower part of the mountain.

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, You speak with us, and we will hear. And let us not speak with God, that we not die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid, for God has come in order to test you, and so that His fear may be on your faces, that you may not sin.

¹ And these are the judgments which you shall put before them: ² When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years And in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. ³ If he comes in with his body, he shall go out with his body. If he was the husband of a wife, his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master gives him a wife, and she bears sons or daughters to him, the wife and her children shall belong to her master; and he shall go out with his body. ⁵ And if the slave truly says, I love my master, my wife and my children; I do not desire to go out free, ⁶ his master shall bring him to God, and one shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever. ⁷ And when a man sells his daughter for a slave-girl, she shall not go out as the male slaves go out. ⁸ If she is bad in the eyes of her master who has appointed her for himself, he shall allow her redemption. He shall not have power to sell her to a strange people, in his deceiving her. ⁹ And if he chooses her for his son, he shall do to her as is the custom of daughters. ¹⁰ If he takes another for himself, her flesh, her clothing, and her conjugal right shall not be diminished. ¹¹ And if he does not do these three for her, she shall go out for nothing, without silver.

³ And they were assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take too much! For all the congregation, all of them are holy, and Jehovah is among them. Why then do you lift up yourselves above the assembly of Jehovah? ⁴ And Moses heard and fell on his face. ⁵ And he spoke to Korah, and to all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are His, and him who is holy, and shall cause him to come near Him; even him whom He may choose, He will cause to come near to Him. ⁶ Do this: take fire-pans for yourselves, Korah, and all his company, ⁷ and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Jehovah tomorrow; and it shall be, the man whom Jehovah chooses, he shall be the holy one. You take too much, sons of Levi! ⁸ And Moses said to Korah, Hear now, you sons of Levi, ⁹ is it but a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? ¹⁰ Yea, He has brought you near, and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. And will you seek the priesthood also? ¹¹ Therefore, you and all your company that have gathered against Jehovah, What is Aaron that you murmur against him? ¹² And Moses sent to call for Dathan and for Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We will not come up. ¹³ Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but must you also certainly seize dominion over us? ¹⁴ Yea, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance in fields and vineyards; will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up! ¹⁵ And Moses was very angry, and said to Jehovah, Do not respect their offering; I have not taken one ass from them, nor have I done evil to one of them. ¹⁶ And Moses said to Korah, You and all your company, you be there before Jehovah, you and they, and Aaron tomorrow. ¹⁷ And each one take his fire-pan, and you shall put incense on them, and shall offer before Jehovah, each his fire-pan, two hundred and fifty fire-pans; even you and Aaron, each his fire-pan. ¹⁸ And they each took his fire-pan, and put fire on them, and lay incense on them, and they stood at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, with Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹ And Korah assembled all the congregation against them, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the glory of Jehovah was seen by all the congregation. ²⁰ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ²¹ separate yourselves from the midst of this company, and I will consume them in a moment. ²² And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, God of the spirits of all flesh; shall one man sin, and will You be angry with all the congregation? ²³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ Speak to the congregation, saying, You get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel went after him. ²⁶ And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that they have, lest you be consumed in all their sins. ²⁷ And they got away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out, standing at the door of their tents, and their wives, their sons, and their infants. ²⁸ And Moses said, By this you shall know that Jehovah has sent me to do all these works, and that not from my own heart. ²⁹ If these die according to the death of all men, and are visited according to the visitation of all men, then Jehovah has not sent me. ³⁰ And if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the ground opens her mouth and swallows them, and all that they have, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised Jehovah. ³¹ And it happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, the ground which was under them split apart, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them, and their houses, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their possessions. ³³ And they went down, they and all that they had, alive to Sheol, and the earth covered over them; and they perished from the midst of the assembly. ³⁴ And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up. ³⁵ And fire came forth from Jehovah and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

⁴¹ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured on the next day against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of Jehovah. ⁴² And it happened, as the company was called together against Moses and against Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle of the congregation. And, behold, the cloud had covered it, and the glory of Jehovah appeared!

²⁷ You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God may say, and you shall speak to us all that Jehovah our God may speak to you. And we will hear it and do it . ²⁸ And Jehovah heard the voice of your words when you spoke to me. And Jehovah said to me I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you; they have well said all that they have spoken. ²⁹ Oh that this heart of theirs would be like this always, to fear Me, and to keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever. ³⁰ Go say to them, Return to your tents. ³¹ But as for you, you stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments and the statutes and the ordinances which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I am giving to them, to possess it.

¹ And this is the commandment, the statute and the judgments which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, to do them in the land to which you are crossing over, to possess it, ² that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you; you, and your son, and your sons' son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged. ³ Hear, then, O Israel, and take heed to do it, that it may be well with you, that you may increase mightily, as Jehovah the God of your fathers has promised you, in the land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁹ I call Heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore, choose life, that you may live, you and your seed, ²⁰ to love Jehovah your God, to listen to His voice, and to cleave to Him, for He is your life, and the length of your days live in the land which Jehovah has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them.

⁴⁶ and said to them, Set your heart on all the words which I have testified against you today, that you command your sons to take heed to do all the words of this law. ⁴⁷ For it is not a useless Word for you, for it is your life, and by this Word you shall prolong your days in the land where you are crossing over the Jordan, there to possess it.

⁴ Moses has commanded a law to us, an inheritance for the congregation of Jacob.

⁵ For he raised a testimony in Jacob, and set a law in Israel; which he commanded our fathers, to teach them to their sons; ⁶ So that a coming generation may know; sons shall be born; they shall rise up and tell their sons, ⁷ so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments. ⁸ And they shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not its heart; yea, whose spirit was not faithful with God. ⁹ The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of bows, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁷ For the Law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

⁶³ It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The words which I speak to you are spirit and are life.

⁵³ who received the Law by the disposition of angels and did not keep it .

² Much every way. For first, indeed, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

⁴ who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the Lawgiving, and the service, and the promises;

⁶ But the righteousness of faith says this: "Do not say in your heart, Who will go up into Heaven?" (that is, to bring down Christ); ⁷ or, "Who will go down into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.) ⁸ But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith which we proclaim) Deut. 9:4; 30:12-14 . ⁹ Because if you confess the Lord Jesus with your mouth, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses unto salvation.

¹⁹ Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, until the Seed should come, to whom it had been promised, being ordained through angels in a mediator's hand.

¹² For the word of God is living, and powerfully working, and sharper than every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart;

¹² For indeed because of the time you are due to be teachers, yet you need to have someone to teach you again the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food;

¹¹ If anyone speaks, let it be as the words of God; if anyone ministers, as by strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom is the glory and the might forever and ever. Amen.

¹¹ And they said to Moses, Were there no graves in Egypt, that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What is this you have done to us, to bring us out from Egypt? ¹² Is this not the word which we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Go away from us, and let us serve the Egyptians. For it is better for us to serve the Egyptians, than to die in the wilderness.

³ And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the fleshpots, in our eating bread to satisfaction. For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill all this assembly with hunger.

³ And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why, then, have you caused us to go up from Egypt, to kill me and my sons and my livestock with thirst?

⁵ We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

³ And why is Jehovah bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our infants shall become a prey. Is it not good for us to return to Egypt? ⁴ And they said each to his brother, Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.

⁵ And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul hates this light bread.

² And the wife of Gilead bore sons to him. And the sons of the wife grew up, and they threw Jephthah out, and said to him, You shall not inherit in the house of your father, for you are the son of another woman.

²⁷ And Solomon drove Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah, to fulfill the word of Jehovah which He spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers seethed, and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commands. ¹⁷ And they refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders which You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return them to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and did not forsake them.

¹⁶ And they were jealous of Moses the saint of Jehovah in the camp of Aaron;

³² And they angered Him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill for Moses because of them; ³³ for they provoked his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.

⁶ In that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey that I had searched out for them, the glory of it is to all lands. ⁷ Then I said to them, Let each man cast away the filthy idols of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Jehovah your God. ⁸ But they rebelled against Me and would not listen to Me. They did not each man throw away the filthy idols of their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour out My fury against them, to fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. ⁹ But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were, for I made Myself known to them in their eyes, by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ I caused them to leave from the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. ¹¹ And I gave them My statutes, and I made them know My judgments, which if a man does them, he will even live by them. ¹² And I also gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah who sets them apart. ¹³ But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does them he will even live by them. And they greatly profaned My sabbaths. Then I said, I will pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ But I worked for My name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations, before whom I brought them out, in their eyes.

²⁷ But the one wronging the neighbor thrust him away, saying, "Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

⁵¹ Oh stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and in the ears! You always fell against the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, you also did . ⁵² Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who before announced the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become betrayers and murderers,

¹ And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain. And the people gathered to Aaron. And they said to him, Rise up, make for us gods who may go before our face. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

²³ And they said to me, Make for us gods who may go before us; as for Moses, the man who caused us to go up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.

² And Aaron said to them, Break off the rings of gold which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and your daughters; and bring them to me. ³ And all the people broke off the rings of gold in their ears, and they brought to Aaron. ⁴ And he took them from their hand and formed it with an engraving tool. And he made it a casted calf. And they said, These are your gods, O Israel, who made you go up from the land of Egypt. ⁵ And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it. And Aaron called and said, A feast to Jehovah tomorrow. ⁶ And they rose early on the morrow, and they offered burnt offerings and brought near peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. ⁷ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, Come, go down, for your people whom you caused to go up from Egypt are corrupted; ⁸ they have quickly turned off from the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a casted calf and have bowed to it, and have sacrificed to it. And they have said, These are your gods, O Israel, who made you go up from the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ And Joshua heard the voice of the people in their shouting. And he said to Moses, A sound of war in the camp! ¹⁸ And he said, It is not a sound of a cry of might, nor a sound of a cry of defeat; I am hearing the sound of singing. ¹⁹ And it happened, as he came near to the camp and saw the calf and dances, the anger of Moses glowed. And he threw the tablets from his hands, and he broke them below the mountain. ²⁰ And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire and ground it until it was fine, then he scattered it on the face of the water. And he made the sons of Israel to drink it .

¹² and Jehovah said to me, Rise up, go down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a casted image. ¹³ And Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. ¹⁴ Let Me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. ¹⁵ And I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands; ¹⁶ and I looked; and, behold! You had sinned against Jehovah your God; you had made a casted calf for yourselves; you had quickly turned out of the way which Jehovah had commanded you. ¹⁷ And I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes. ¹⁸ And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water; because of all your sins which you had sinned, in doing that which was evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.

¹⁸ Yea, when they had made a casted calf for themselves, and said, This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt, and had worked great blasphemies,

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and fell down before the casted image; ²⁰ and they changed their Glory into the image of an ox eating grass. ²¹ They forgot God their deliverer, doing great things in Egypt;

⁸ And his land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. ⁹ And man bowed down; and man was humbled, but You do not lift them up.

⁹ Those who form a carved image are all of them vanity. And their delights do not profit; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see, nor know, that they may be ashamed. ¹⁰ Who has formed a god, or poured out an image, to no profit? ¹¹ Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen, they are from men. They shall assemble, all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be shamed together. ¹² He carves iron with a tool; he works in the coals and forms it with hammers, and works it with his powerful arm; then he is hungry, and has no strength; he drinks no water and is weary. ¹³ He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it with a stylus; he shapes it with a carving tool, and he marks it with a compass. And he makes it according to the figure of a man, as the beauty of a man, to sit in the house. ¹⁴ He cuts down cedars and takes cypress and oak, and he makes the trees of the forest strong for him. He plants a tree, and rain makes it grow. ¹⁵ And it shall be for a man to burn; yea, he takes of them and is warmed; and he kindles it and bakes bread. Yea, he makes a god and worships; he makes a carved image and bows to it. ¹⁶ He burns half of it in the fire; he eats flesh on half of it; he roasts roast, and is satisfied. Then he warms himself and says, Ah, I am warm; I have seen the fire. ¹⁷ And he makes a god of the rest, his carved image; he bows to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me, for you are my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding. ¹⁹ And not one turns back to his heart, nor has knowledge nor discernment to say, I have burned half of it in the fire; and I also have baked bread on its coals. I have roasted flesh and have eaten it; and I have made the rest of it into an idol. Shall I bow to a product of a tree? ²⁰ Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹ O Israel, do not rejoice for joy, like the peoples. For you have gone lusting away from your God. You have loved a reward on all threshing-floors of grain.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruit in the fig tree at her first time. They came to Baal-peor and set themselves apart to a shameful thing. And they became hateful like that which they loved.

¹⁸ What does an image profit, for its maker has carved it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood? For does the maker trust in his work on it, to make mute idols? ¹⁹ Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To a mute stone, Rise up, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but no breath is in its midst. ²⁰ But Jehovah is in His holy temple; let all the earth be silent before Him.

²⁰ And the rest of men, those not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they will not worship demons, and "golden idols, and silver, and bronze, and stone, and wooden idols, which neither are able to see, nor to hear," nor to walk. Dan. 5:23; Psa. 115:4 -7; 135:15-17

¹⁹ and that you not lift up your eyes towards the heavens and shall see the sun, and the heavens, and you be drawn away and worship them, and serve them; which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.

³ and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them; or the sun, or the moon, or of the host of the heavens, which I have not commanded;

²⁰ When you forsake Jehovah, and shall serve strange gods, then He will turn away and do evil to you, and consume you, after He has done good to you.

¹⁶ And they left all the commands of Jehovah their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal,

³ And he built again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and raised up altars for Baal, and made a shrine, as did Ahab the king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of the heavens, and served them.

²⁶ if I looked to the light when it shone, or the moon marching in splendor, ²⁷ and my heart was secretly enticed. or my mouth has kissed my hand; ²⁸ this also would be an iniquity for the judges; for I would have denied God above.

¹¹ But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel did not consent to Me. ¹² So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; they walked in their own conceits.

²³ You have not brought Me the lamb of your burnt offerings; even your sacrifices have not honored Me. I have not caused you to serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and provoked His Holy Spirit, so He was turned to be their enemy; He fought against them.

⁴ I also will choose their vexations; and I will bring their fears to them; because I called, and no one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear. But they did the evil in My eyes, and chose that in which I had no pleasure.

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the roofs of the houses on which they have burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the house of Jehovah. And, behold, at the opening of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men with their backs to the temple of Jehovah, and their faces eastward. And they bowed themselves eastward to the sun.

⁷ For every man of the house of Israel, or of the alien who resides in Israel, who is separated from after Me and causes his idols to go up in his heart, and puts the stumbling-block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I, Jehovah, will answer him Myself. ⁸ And I will set My face against that man, and I will make him desolate for a sign and for proverbs. And I will cut him off from the midst of My people. And you shall know that I am Jehovah. ⁹ And the prophet, if he is deceived, and he speaks a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet. And I will stretch out My hand on him and will destroy him from the midst of My people Israel. ¹⁰ And they shall bear their iniquity. As the iniquity of the inquirer, so the iniquity of the prophet shall be.

²⁵ Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good and by which they could not live.

³⁹ And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: Every man go, serve his idols, even hereafter, if you will not listen to Me. But you will not still profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

¹⁷ Ephraim is joined to idols. Let him alone.

²⁵ Have you brought near sacrifices and food offerings to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ²⁶ Yea, you have carried the booth of your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves!

³⁶ This one led them out, having worked wonders and miracles in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea, and forty years in the wilderness.

²⁴ Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ Because of this, God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females changed the natural use to that contrary to nature. ²⁷ And likewise, the males also forsaking the natural use of the female burned in their lust toward one another, males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving back within themselves the reward which was fitting for their error. ²⁸ And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness in those being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth in order for them to be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will send to them a working of error, for them to believe the lie, ¹² that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but who have delighted in unrighteousness.

⁹ there where your fathers tempted Me, testing Me, and saw My works forty years.

¹⁵ as in the saying, "Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation." LXX-Psa. 94:7, 8; MT-Psa. 95:7, 8 ¹⁶ For hearing, some provoked Him, but not all those coming out of Egypt through Moses. ¹⁷ But with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with the ones sinning, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

⁴ You shall not make a graven image for yourself, or any likeness in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth; ⁵ you shall not bow to them, and you shall not serve them; for I am Jehovah your God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third and on the fourth generation, to those that hate Me;

²¹ And you shall not give your seed to pass them through to Molech, nor shall you pollute the name of your God; I am Jehovah.

² And you shall say to the sons of Israel, Any man of the sons of Israel, and of the aliens who are living in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones! ³ And I, I shall set My face against that man, and shall cut him off from the midst of his people, for he has given of his seed to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name. ⁴ And if the people of the land truly hide their eyes from that man, as he gives his seed to Molech, so as not to put him to death, ⁵ then I shall set My face against that man, and against his family, and shall cut him off, and all who go whoring after him, even going whoring after Molech from the midst of their people.

¹⁶ that you not deal corruptly, and make for yourselves a graven image, a likeness of any figure, the form of a male or female, ¹⁷ the form of any animal in the earth; the form of any winged bird that flies in the heavens; ¹⁸ The form of any creeping thing on the ground; the form of any fish in the waters under the earth;

⁸ You shall not make a graven image for you, any likeness of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, and in the waters from under the earth. ⁹ You shall not bow yourself to them nor serve them, for I, Jehovah your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of fathers on children, and on the third, and on the fourth generation of those that hate Me,

⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and removed Israel to Assyria, and made them live in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

¹⁶ And they left all the commands of Jehovah their God and made for themselves casted images, two calves, and made an Asherah, and bowed to all the host of the heavens, and served Baal, ¹⁷ and caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire and divined, and used incantations, and sold themselves to do the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him, ¹⁸ so that Jehovah was very angry against Israel, and turned them away from His face; not one was left, only the tribe of Judah by itself.

¹¹ and the king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, used magic, and used divination, and dealt with mediums and soothsayers. He expanded to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger.

²⁶ Yea, you have carried the booth of your king, and Kiyyun, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves! ²⁷ And I will cause you to go into exile beyond Damascus, says Jehovah, the God of hosts is His name.

⁸ And let them make a sanctuary for Me, that I may dwell in their midst. ⁹ According to all which I am going to reveal to you, the plan of the tabernacle, and the plan of all its vessels, even so you shall do.

⁴⁰ And see that they are made by their patterns which you were caused to see in the mountain.

³⁰ And you shall set up the tabernacle according to the decree which you were shown in the mountain.

²¹ These are the numbered things of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were numbered at Moses' command for the service of the Levites in the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

⁵⁰ But you shall appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furniture, and over all that belongs to it. They shall bear the tabernacle, and all its furniture. And they shall serve it, and shall encamp around the tabernacle. ⁵¹ And when the tabernacle goes forward, the Levites shall take it down. And when the tabernacle is to be encamped, the Levites shall set it up. And the stranger that draws near shall be put to death. ⁵² And the sons of Israel shall encamp their tents, each man with his own camp, and each man with his own standard, according to their armies. ⁵³ But the Levites shall encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. And the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

¹⁵ And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony. And at evening there was on the tabernacle the appearance of fire, until morning.

¹¹ And it happened in the second year, in the second month, in the twentieth of the month, the cloud went up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁷ And Moses placed the rods before Jehovah, in the tabernacle of the testimony. ⁸ And it happened on the next day, Moses went into the tabernacle of the testimony, and, behold! The rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had budded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.

² and also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, you shall bring near with you, that they may be joined to you and may minister to you, you and your sons in your being before the tabernacle of the testimony.

¹ And all the company of the sons of Israel were gathered at Shiloh. And they established the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land had been subdued before them.

¹¹ And David gave his son Solomon the pattern of the porch, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of its upper rooms, and of its innermost rooms, and of the house of the mercy-seat;

¹⁹ All was in writing from the hand of Jehovah. He caused me to understand all the work of the pattern.

⁶ And the king called for Jehoiada the head, and said to him, Why have you not required the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tribute of Moses, the servant of Jehovah, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of the testimony?

² Minister of the Holy of Holies, and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man.

⁵ who serve the pattern of and shadow of heavenly things, even as Moses was divinely warned, being about to make the tabernacle: For He says, "See that you make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mount." Ex. 25:40

⁴⁹ Go up into this Mount Abarim, to Mount Nebo in the land of Moab, which is opposite Jericho; and see the land of Canaan which I am giving to the sons of Israel for a possession;

⁶ And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and go before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people. ⁷ And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I will begin to make you great in the eyes of all Israel, so that they shall know that as I was with Moses, I am with you.

¹¹ Behold, the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of all the earth shall pass over before you into the Jordan. ¹² And now, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel one man for each tribe. ¹³ And it shall be, when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of Jehovah, Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters which come down from above. And they shall stand in one heap. ¹⁴ And it happened, as the people moved from their tents to cross over the Jordan, and as the priests bore the ark of the covenant before the people, ¹⁵ and as those bearing the ark came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the edge of the waters (and the Jordan was full, over all its banks all the days of harvest), ¹⁶ that the waters stood still, those coming down from above rose up into a heap, very far above the city Adam, which is beside Zaretan; and those going down by the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite to Jericho. ¹⁷ And the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. And all Israel crossed over on dry ground until all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan.

⁹ And Jehovah has expelled from before you great and mighty nations. As for you no one has stood before you until today.

¹⁸ And Jehovah has cast out all the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land before us. We also will serve Jehovah, for He is our God.

³¹ And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, which he had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.

⁴ And the people sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who dwells between the cherubs. And the two sons of Eli were there with the ark of the covenant of God, Hophni and Phinehas.

¹ And David again gathered every chosen one in Israel, thirty thousand. ² And David rose up and went, and all the people with him, from Baal-judah, to bring up the ark of God from there which is called by the Name, the Name of Jehovah of hosts, who dwells above the cherubs. ³ And they caused the ark of God to ride on a new cart, and took it from the house of Abinadab, which is in the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio the sons of Abinadab were leading the new cart. ⁴ And they took it from the house of Abinadab, which is in the hill, with the ark of God. And Ahio was going before the ark. ⁵ And David and all the house of Israel were dancing before Jehovah with all instruments of fir wood, with lyres and with harps, and with tambourines, and with sistra, and with cymbals. ⁶ And when they came to the threshing floor of Nachon, and Uzzah reached out to the ark of God, and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it, ⁷ then the anger of Jehovah glowed against Uzzah. And God struck him there for the fault. And he died there by the ark of God. ⁸ And it angered David because Jehovah broke out a break against Uzzah. And one calls that place The Break of Uzzah to this day. ⁹ And David feared Jehovah on that day, and said, How shall the ark of Jehovah come to me? ¹⁰ And David was not willing to bring the ark of Jehovah to himself, to the city of David. And David turned it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹¹ And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months. And Jehovah blessed Obed-edom and all his house. ¹² And it was told to king David, saying, Jehovah has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all is his, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with joy. ¹³ And it happened, when those bearing the ark of Jehovah had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. ¹⁴ And David was dancing with all his might before Jehovah. And David was girded with a linen ephod. ¹⁵ And David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of a ram's horn. ¹⁶ And it happened, when the ark of Jehovah had come to the city of David, and Michal the daughter of Saul looked through the window and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah, she despised him in her heart. ¹⁷ And they brought the ark of Jehovah in, and set it up in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it. And David caused burnt offerings to be offered before Jehovah, and peace offerings. ¹⁸ And David finished offering the burnt offerings, and the peace offerings, and blessed the people in the name of Jehovah of hosts. ¹⁹ And he shared out to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man even to woman, to each one cake of bread and one date cake and one raisin cake. And all the people left, each one to his house. ²⁰ And David returned to bless his house. And Michal the daughter of Saul went out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who was uncovered today before the eyes of the slave-girls of his servants, as one of the vain ones shamelessly uncovers himself. ²¹ And David said to Michal, Before Jehovah, who chose me over your father and over all your father's house, to command me to be leader over the people of Jehovah, and over Israel, so I danced before Jehovah. ²² And I will be yet lighter than this, and shall be lowly in my own eyes. But with the slave-girls of whom you spoke, with them I will be honored. ²³ And there was no child to Michal the daughter of Saul until the day of her death.

⁴ and brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those the priests and the Levites brought.

¹ And he built houses for himself in the City of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and stretched out a tent for it. ² Then David said, None should bear the ark of God except the Levites, for Jehovah had chosen them to bear the ark of God, and to serve Him forever. ³ And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place that he had prepared for it. ⁴ And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites. ⁵ Of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty. ⁶ Of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty. ⁷ Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty. ⁸ Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred. ⁹ Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty. ¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve. ¹¹ And David called to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, ¹² and said to them, You are the heads of your fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you shall bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. ¹³ Because you did not do so at the first, Jehovah our God broke in against us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance. ¹⁴ And the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel. ¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God, as Moses commanded, according to the word of Jehovah, by staves above on the shoulders. ¹⁶ And David commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and sounding cymbals, to lift up the voice with joy. ¹⁷ And the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah.

³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in the high place that was in Gibeon;

²⁹ And the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that time in the high place in Gibeon;

²⁴ And the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled the people of the land before them, the Canaanites. And You gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land to do with them as they desired.

² You drove out nations with Your hand and planted them. You brought evil on peoples and expelled them.

⁵⁵ And He cast out the nations before them; and by a line He made a possession fall to them; and He made the tribes of Israel to live in their tents.

¹⁹ And He pulled down seven nations in Canaan land, and gave their land to them as an inheritance. Deut. 7:1

⁸ For if Joshua gave them rest, then He would not have afterwards spoken about another day.

²⁸ And Samuel said to him, Jehovah has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you.

¹ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Until when will you mourn for Saul, for I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have seen a king for Me among his sons.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are these all the young men? And he said, There yet remains the youngest; and behold, he is tending the flock. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit until he comes here. ¹² And he sent and brought him in. And he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and good form. And Jehovah said, Rise up, anoint him, for this is he. ¹³ And Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day and onward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

²¹ And David said to Michal, Before Jehovah, who chose me over your father and over all your father's house, to command me to be leader over the people of Jehovah, and over Israel, so I danced before Jehovah.

¹ And it happened, when the king lived in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies all around, ² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See, now, I am living in a house of cedar, and the ark of God dwells within tent curtains. ³ And Nathan said to the king, All that is in your heart, go, do. For Jehovah shall be with you. ⁴ And it happened in that night, the word of Jehovah came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go, and you shall say to My servant, to David, So says Jehovah, Will you build a house for Me, for My dwelling?

⁸ And now, so you shall say to My servant, to David, So says Jehovah of hosts, I have taken you from the resting place, from following the flock, to be ruler over My people, over Israel. ⁹ And I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you and have made you a great name, like the name of the great men who are on the earth. ¹⁰ And I will designate a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and not be made to tremble any more. Nor shall the sons of evil afflict them again, as at the first, ¹¹ even from the day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel. And I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. And Jehovah declares to you that Jehovah will make you a house. ¹² When your days are fulfilled, and you lie with your fathers, then I shall raise up your seed after you, who shall come out from your bowels, and I shall establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever. ¹⁴ I shall be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he sins, then I will chasten him with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of men. ¹⁵ But My mercy shall not be taken from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. ¹⁶ And your house shall be established, and your kingdom before you forever. Your throne shall be established forever.

¹⁸ And king David came in and sat before Jehovah, and said: Who am I, O Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that you have brought me here? ¹⁹ And this was yet but little in Your eyes, O Lord Jehovah. But You have spoken also of Your servant's house for a time afar off. And is this the law of men, O Lord Jehovah?

¹⁷ And it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel; ¹⁸ and Jehovah said to my father David, Because it has been in your heart to build a house for My name, you have done well that it has been in your heart; ¹⁹ only, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall come out from your loins, he shall build the house for My name.

¹ And it happened, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I am living in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains. ² And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you. ³ And it happened on that night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying, ⁴ Go, and you shall say to My servant David, So says Jehovah, You shall not build a house for Me to dwell in;

⁷ And David said to his son Solomon, As for me, it has been in my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God. ⁸ But the word of Jehovah was against me, saying, You have shed blood in abundance, and you have made great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, for you have shed much blood to the earth before Me.

² And David the king rose up on his feet and said, Hear me, my brothers and my people. With my heart I desired to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God. And I made preparations to build. ³ But God said to me, You shall not build a house to My name, for you are a man of battles, and you have shed blood. ⁴ But Jehovah the God of Israel chose me out of all my father's house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as the ruler, and my father's house in the house of Judah; and among the sons of my father He was pleased to make me king over all Israel. ⁵ And of all my sons, for Jehovah has given me many sons, He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah, over Israel.

² And with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for silver, and the bronze for bronze, the iron for iron things, and the wood for wood, onyx stones, and settings, and also stones of antimony and of different colors, and every precious stone, and stones of alabaster, in abundance. ³ And also, because I delighted in the house of my God, I have treasure of gold and silver which I give for the house of my God, even more than all that I have prepared for the house of the sanctuary:

⁶⁸ But He chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which He loved. ⁶⁹ And He built His sanctuary like high places, like the earth He has founded forever. ⁷⁰ He also chose His servant David, and took him from the sheepfolds; ⁷¹ He brought him in from the suckling ewes; He brought him to feed His people Jacob, and His inheritance, Israel. ⁷² And he fed them in the integrity of his heart; and guided them in the skillfulness of his hands.

¹⁹ Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one; and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one. I have exalted a chosen one from the people. ²⁰ I have found My servant David; I have anointed him with My holy oil. ²¹ My hand shall be fixed with him; and My arm shall make him strong. ²² An enemy will not exact against him; nor the son of iniquity afflict him. ²³ And I will beat down his foes before him, and plague those hating him. ²⁴ But My faithfulness and My mercy is with him; and his horn shall be exalted in My name. ²⁵ And I will set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. ²⁶ He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are My God, and the rock of my salvation. ²⁷ And I will make him My first-born, higher than the kings of the earth. ²⁸ I will keep My mercy for Him forever, and My covenant shall hold fast with Him. ²⁹ And I have established his Seed forever, and His throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his children forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments; ³¹ if they profane My statutes and do not keep My commandments; ³² then I will visit their transgressions with the rod, and their sins with stripes. ³³ But I will not annul My mercy from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I will not profane My covenant, nor change what goes from My lips. ³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. ³⁶ His seed shall be forever, and his throne as the sun before Me. ³⁷ Like the moon, it shall be forever; and a faithful witness in the sky. Selah.

¹ A Song of Ascents. O Jehovah, remember David with all his afflictions; ² how he swore to Jehovah; he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob, ³ If I will go into the tent of my house, if I go up on the couch of my bed, ⁴ if I give sleep to my eyes, slumber to my eyelids, ⁵ until I search out a place for Jehovah, dwellings for the Mighty One of Jacob.

¹¹ Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; I will set one of the fruit of your body on the throne for you.

²² And removing him, He raised up to them David for a king, to whom He also said, witnessing, "I found David" the son of Jesse " to be a man according to My own heart, who will do all My will." 1 Samuel 13:14; Psa. 89:20; LXX-Isa. 44:28

¹³ He shall build a house for My Name, and I shall establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

¹ And Hiram the king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, for he heard that they had anointed him king instead of his father. For Hiram was a lover of David all his days. ² And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

¹ And it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year from the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Zif, it is the second month, in the reigning of Solomon over Israel he built the house for Jehovah. ² As to the house that king Solomon built for Jehovah, its length was sixty cubits, its breadth twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

³⁷ The house of Jehovah was founded in the fourth year, in the month of Zif. ³⁸ And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was finished as to all its parts, and according to all its plans. So he built it for seven years.

¹³ And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre. ¹⁴ He was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, an engraver in bronze. And he was filled with the wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do all work in bronze. And he came to king Solomon and did all his work. ¹⁵ And he formed the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits went around the second pillar. ¹⁶ And he made two capitals to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits the height of the second capital. ¹⁷ He made lattices, net work with twisted threads of chain-work, for the capitals on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. ¹⁸ And he made the pillars. And two rows were all around on the one lattice, to cover the capitals on the top with the pomegranates. And so he did for the other capital. ¹⁹ And the capitals on the top of the pillars in the porch were lily-work, four cubits. ²⁰ And the capitals were on the two pillars, also above, over against the belly which was by the lattice; and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows all around on the other capital. ²¹ And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple. And he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin. And he set up the left pillar, and called its name of Boaz. ²² And on the top of the pillars was lily-work. So the work of the pillars was finished. ²³ And he made a casted sea of ten cubits from brim to brim; it was round all about. And its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits went around it all about. ²⁴ And gourds were below its brim all around, going around it, ten by the cubit, circling the sea all around; the gourds were cast in two rows when it was cast. ²⁵ It stood on twelve oxen: three facing the north, and three facing the west, and three facing the south, and three facing the east. And the sea was above on them; and all their hinder parts were inward. ²⁶ And its thickness was one hand wide; and its brim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, with a bud of a lily. It contained two thousand baths. ²⁷ And he made ten bases of bronze; four cubits the length of the one base, and four cubits the breadth, and three cubits the height. ²⁸ And this was the work of the base: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays. ²⁹ And on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubs. And a pedestal was on the stays above. And below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. ³⁰ And the one base had four wheels of bronze, and axles of bronze. And its four feet were supports to them; under the basin were casted supports with wreaths at each side. ³¹ And its mouth within and above the capital was a cubit; and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and half of the cubit. And also on its mouth were carvings; and their borders were square, not round. ³² And the four wheels were under the borders. And the hands of the wheels were in the base; and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half. ³³ And the work of the wheels was as the work of a chariot wheel, their hands, and their rims, and their spokes, and their hubs were all casted. ³⁴ And there were four supports to the four corners of one base; the supports were of the base itself. ³⁵ And in the top of the base was a round compass of half a cubit high. And on the top of the base its sides and its borders were from it. ³⁶ And he engraved cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its sides, and on its borders, as the place of each, with wreaths all around. ³⁷ So he made the ten bases, one casting, one measure, one form was to them all. ³⁸ And he made ten basins of bronze; the one basin contained forty baths. The one basin was four cubits, one basin on the one base, to the ten bases. ³⁹ And he put the five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. And he put the sea on the right side of the house, eastward, across from the south. ⁴⁰ And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the bowls. And Hiram finished all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of Jehovah: ⁴¹ two pillars, and two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two gratings to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; ⁴² and the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings, two rows of pomegranates for each grating, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; ⁴³ and ten bases, and ten basins on the bases; ⁴⁴ and one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; ⁴⁵ and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And all these vessels which Hiram made for king Solomon for the house of Jehovah were of burnished bronze. ⁴⁶ The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the thick soil of the ground between Succoth and Zarethan. ⁴⁷ And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed because they were very, very many; the weight of the bronze was not searched out. ⁴⁸ And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Jehovah: the altar of gold; and the table of gold on which was the Bread of the Presence; ⁴⁹ and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left before the Holy of Holies, of refined gold, and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs were of gold; ⁵⁰ and the basins, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans were of refined gold; and the hinges for the doors of the inner house, for the Holy of Holies, for the doors of the house of the temple were of gold. ⁵¹ And it was complete, all the work that king Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah. And Solomon brought in the sanctified things of his father David: the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he had put into the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

²⁰ And Jehovah has established His word that He spoke; for I have risen up instead of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spoke, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah the God of Israel;

¹ And it happened, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I am living in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is under curtains.

¹ And Solomon said to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom; ² And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men, bearers of burden, and eighty thousand men hewing in the mountains; and overseers over them three thousand, six hundred. ³ And Solomon sent to Hiram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with my father David, and sent him cedars to build a house to live in, also ⁴ behold, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to dedicate to Him, to burn incense of sweet spices before Him, and for the continual bread of arrangement, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbath, and on the new moons, and at the set feasts of Jehovah our God. This shall be upon Israel forever.

¹ And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where He appeared to his father David, in the place that David had prepared, in the grain floor of Ornan the Jebusite;

¹² And speak to him, saying, So says Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold! The Man whose name is THE BRANCH! And He shall spring up out of His place, and He shall build the temple of Jehovah. ¹³ Even He shall build the temple of Jehovah; and He shall bear the majesty, and shall sit and rule on His throne. And He shall be a priest on His throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between the two of them.

⁸ when the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance; when He separated the sons of Adam, He set up the bounds of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of Israel.

²⁷ But will God in truth dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

⁵ And the house which I am building shall be great, for our God is greater than all gods. ⁶ But who has strength to enclose a house for Him, since the heavens and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? And who am I that I should build Him a house, except to offer before Him?

¹⁸ For is it true that God shall dwell with men on the earth? Behold, the heavens, and the heaven of heavens, do not contain You. How much less this house that I have built!

¹⁷ I will thank Jehovah according to His righteousness, and will praise the name of Jehovah most high.

⁴ There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God, the holy tabernacles of the Most High.

¹ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide in the shade of the Almighty.

⁹ Because You, O Jehovah, are My refuge; if you make the Most High your habitation,

⁸ But You, O Jehovah, are exalted forever.

¹ So says Jehovah: Heaven is My throne, and earth the footstool of My feet. Where then is the house that you build for Me? And where then is the place of My rest? ² And My hand has made all these things, even all these things exist, declares Jehovah. But I will look toward this one, to the afflicted, and to the contrite of spirit, even trembling at My word.

¹⁷ This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the command by the word of the holy ones, so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets up over it the lowest of men.

²⁴ This is the meaning, O king, and this the decree of the Most High, which has come on my lord the king: ²⁵ And you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. And you shall be fed with grass like oxen. And you shall be wet with dew of the heavens; and seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High is Ruler in the kingdom of men, and He gives it to whomever He desires.

³⁴ And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to the heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High. And I praised and honored Him who lives forever, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His rule from generation to generation.

¹⁶ They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a treacherous bow. Their rulers shall fall by the sword, from the rage of the tongue. This shall be their scorn in the land of Egypt.

²⁴ The God who made the world and all things in it, this One being Lord of Heaven and of earth, does not dwell in handmade temples, ²⁵ nor is served by hands of men, as having need of anything. For He is giving life and breath and all things to all.

¹⁹ And he said, Therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting on His throne, and all the host of Heaven were standing by Him, on His right and on His left.

⁴ Jehovah is in His holy temple Jehovah, His throne is in the heavens; His eyes see; His eyelids will examine the sons of man.

¹ So says Jehovah: Heaven is My throne, and earth the footstool of My feet. Where then is the house that you build for Me? And where then is the place of My rest?

⁴ Do not trust yourself to lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah! The temple of Jehovah! This is the temple of Jehovah! ⁵ For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor; ⁶ if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt; ⁷ then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from forever and to forever. ⁸ Behold, you trust for yourself on lying words without being of use. ⁹ Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know? ¹⁰ And will you then come and stand before Me in this house on which My name is called, and say, We are delivered in order to do all those detestable things. ¹¹ Has this house on which My name is called become a den of violent ones in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen, declares Jehovah.

²⁴ Or can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him, says Jehovah? Do I not fill the heavens and the earth, says Jehovah?

¹¹ For from the east to the west, My name shall be great among the nations, and everywhere incense shall be offered to My name; and a pure food offering; for My name shall be great among the nations, says Jehovah of hosts.

³⁴ But I say to you, Do not swear at all, neither by Heaven, because it is God's throne; Isa. 66:1 ³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is the footstool of His feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King. Isa. 66:1; Psa. 48:2

²² And the one swearing by Heaven swears by the throne of God, and by the One sitting on it.

² But Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There will not at all be left one stone on a stone which in no way will not be thrown down.

²¹ Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

²¹ The one overcoming, I will give to him to sit with Me in My throne, as I also overcame and sat with My Father in His throne.

¹¹ For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this Jehovah blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it.

⁶ Through Jehovah's word the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth. ⁷ The waters of the sea were gathered like a heap, setting the depths in storehouses. ⁸ Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all dwellers in the world stand in awe of Him. ⁹ For He spoke, and it came into being; He commanded, and it stood fast.

⁹ I will take no bull out of your house, nor he-goats out of your folds, ¹⁰ for every beast of the forest is Mine; the cattle on a thousand hills; ¹¹ I know all the birds of the mountains; and all moving in My fields are Mine; ¹² if I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

⁵ Blessed is he who has the God of Jacob in his help; his hope is on Jehovah his God; ⁶ who made the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

²⁸ Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding.

²⁴ So says Jehovah, your Redeemer and your Former from the womb; I am Jehovah who makes all things; stretching out the heavens; I alone, spreading out the earth. Who was with Me,

⁷ forming light, and creating darkness; making peace, and creating evil. ⁸ Drop down from above, O heavens; and let the clouds pour down righteousness. Let the earth open and let salvation bear fruit; and let righteousness sprout together. I, Jehovah have created it.

¹² I have made the earth, and created man on it. I stretched out the heavens with My hands; and I have set all their host in order.

² And My hand has made all these things, even all these things exist, declares Jehovah. But I will look toward this one, to the afflicted, and to the contrite of spirit, even trembling at My word.

¹¹ So you shall say to them, The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.

¹⁷ Ah, Lord Jehovah! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and Your outstretched arm; not any thing is too difficult for You,

¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like feelings to you, announcing the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who "made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them," Ex. 20:11

⁹ And Jehovah said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

³ to a land flowing with milk and honey. For I will not go up among you, for you are a stiffnecked people, lest I consume you in the way.

⁵ And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to the sons of Israel, You are a stiffnecked people; in one instant I will go up among you and I will consume you. And now lay off from you your ornaments, that I may know what I shall do to you.

⁹ And he said, If now I have found favor in Your eyes, O lord, please let my lord go in our midst, for it is a stiffnecked people; and You forgive our iniquity and our sin, and take us as a possession.

⁴¹ I also will walk contrary to them, and I will bring them into the land of their enemies. If their uncircumcised hearts are then humbled, and they then have satisfied for their iniquity;

⁶ And you shall know that Jehovah your God is not giving you this good land, to possess it, for your righteousness; for you are a stiffnecked people.

¹³ And Jehovah spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

¹⁶ And you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and you shall not harden your neck any more.

⁶ And Jehovah your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

²⁷ For I have known your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Jehovah. And how much more after my death!

⁸ Now do not stiffen your necks like your fathers. Give a hand to Jehovah and come to His holy place that He has sanctified forever; and serve Jehovah your God. And the fierceness of His anger will turn away from you.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers seethed, and hardened their necks, and did not listen to Your commands.

³⁰ But many years You had patience with them, and testified against them by Your Spirit, by Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. And You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

⁵ Do not lift up your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck.

⁸ And they shall not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not its heart; yea, whose spirit was not faithful with God.

⁴ Because I knew that you are hard, and your neck is a sinew of iron, and your brow brass.

⁴ Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskin of your heart, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, that My fury not go forth like fire and burn, so that no one can put it out; because of the evil of your doings.

¹⁰ To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ears are not circumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah is a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

²⁵ Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will punish all the circumcised with foreskin: ²⁶ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all those trimmed on the edges of their beards, who dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel, those uncircumcised of heart.

²³ But they did not obey nor bow down their ear, but they made their neck stiff, not to hear, nor to receive instruction.

⁴ And the sons are stiff of face and hard of heart. I am sending you to them. And you shall say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah.

⁷ when you brought in the sons of aliens, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to profane it, even My house, when you bring near My bread, the fat and the blood. And they have broken My covenant by all your abominations.

⁹ So says the Lord Jehovah: No son of an alien, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, or any son of an alien who is among the sons of Israel.

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy from hearing. ¹² And they made their heart adamant from hearing the law and the words which Jehovah of hosts has sent by the former prophets through His Spirit. And great wrath was from Jehovah of hosts.

³¹ So you witness to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of Hell?

¹⁰ And they had no strength to stand against the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

⁹ And being jealous of Joseph, the patriarchs sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

²⁵ For indeed circumcision profits if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew that is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that outwardly in flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew that is one inwardly, and circumcision is of heart, in spirit, not in letter; of whom the praise is not from men, but from God.

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.

³ For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, and who glory in Christ Jesus, and who do not trust in flesh.

¹¹ in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

¹⁰ And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah the God of Hosts, for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant; they have thrown down Your altars, and they have killed Your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek to take my life.

¹⁴ And he said, I have been very zealous for Jehovah, God of Hosts for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant; they have thrown down Your altars, and they have slain Your prophets by the sword; and I, I alone, am left; and they seek to take my life.

¹⁹ And He sent prophets among them to bring them back to Jehovah; and they testified against them, but they did not listen. ²⁰ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood before the people and said to them, So says God, Why do you transgress the commandments of Jehovah, and do not prosper? Because you have forsaken Jehovah, He has forsaken you. ²¹ And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah. ²² And Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada his father had done to him, and killed his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah shall seek you out .

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Jehovah went up against His people, until there was no healing.

²⁶ But they were disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs. And they killed Your prophets who testified against them, to turn them to You. And they worked great blasphemies.

³⁰ In vain I have stricken your sons; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

² then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks in the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.

¹⁵ But know for certain that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants. For truly Jehovah has sent me to you, to speak all these words in your ears.

²³ And they brought Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who struck him with the sword, and threw his dead body into the graves of the sons of the people.

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous and victorious, lowly, and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.

¹² Rejoice and leap for joy, for your reward is great in Heaven; for in this way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

³⁵ And the vinedressers, taking his slaves, they beat this one, and they killed one, and they stoned another. ³⁶ Again he sent other slaves, more than the first. And they did the same to them. ³⁷ And at last he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son. ³⁸ But seeing the son, the vinedressers said among themselves, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and get hold of his inheritance. ³⁹ And taking him, they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him . ⁴⁰ Therefore, when the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to these vinedressers? ⁴¹ They said to Him, Bad men! He will miserably destroy them, and he will rent out the vineyard to other vinedressers who will give to him the fruits in their seasons.

³¹ So you witness to yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape the judgment of Hell? ³⁴ Because of this, behold, I send to you prophets and wise ones and scribes. And some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that should come on you all the righteous blood poured out on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berechiah whom you murdered between the Holy Place and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those sent to her. How often I desired to gather your children in the way a bird gathers her chicks under her wings! And you did not desire it.

⁴⁷ Woe to you! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ So you bear witness and consent to the works of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ And because of this, the wisdom of God said, I will send prophets and apostles to them, and they will kill and drive out some of them, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets which has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation, ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel until the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the House. Yea, I say to you, it will be required from this generation.

³³ But today and tomorrow and on the following day I must travel on. For it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem. ³⁴ Jerusalem! Jerusalem! The one killing the prophets, and stoning those having been sent to her, how often I desired to gather your children in the way a hen gathers her brood under the wings, and you did not desire it .

²³ this One given to you by the before-determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless hands, having crucified Him, you put Him to death.

¹⁸ But what things God before announced through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this manner.

²⁴ And also all the prophets, from Samuel and those following after, as many as spoke, also before announced these days.

¹⁰ let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in this name this one stands before you whole.

²⁸ saying, Did we not command you by a command that you not teach in this name? And, behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring on us the blood of this man. ²⁹ But answering Peter and the apostles said, It is right to obey God rather than man. ³⁰ The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized, hanging Him on a tree.

¹⁴ And he said, The God of our fathers appointed you to know His will, and to see the Just One, and to hear a voice out of His mouth;

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out, and not pleasing God, and being contrary to all men,

¹¹ searching for what, or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ made clear within them; testifying beforehand of the sufferings belonging to Christ, and the glories after these.

¹ My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

⁷ And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These things says the Holy One, the True One, the One having "the key of David," "the One opening, and no one shuts; and shuts, and no one opens:" Isa. 22:22

¹⁰ And I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, Behold! Stop! I am a fellow-slave of yours, and of your brothers, having the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

² And he said: Jehovah came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir for them; He shone forth from Mount Paran, and He came from the myriads of holy ones. At his right hand a law of fire went forth to them.

¹⁷ The chariots of God are myriads, thousands of changes, the Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place.

¹⁸ But I said to their sons in the wilderness, Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers and do not keep their judgments, and do not defile yourselves with their idols. ¹⁹ I am Jehovah your God, walk in My statutes, and keep My judgments, and do them. ²⁰ And keep My sabbaths holy, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Jehovah your God. ²¹ But the sons rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes, and they did not keep My judgments, to do them, which if a man does them, he shall live by them. They profaned My sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them, to fulfill My anger against them in the wilderness.

¹⁹ Has not Moses given you the Law, and not one of you does the Law? Why do you lust to kill Me?

²³ You who boast in Law, do you dishonor God through transgression of the Law? ²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations through you, even as it has been written: Isa. 52:5 ²⁵ For indeed circumcision profits if you practice the Law, but if you are a transgressor of Law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

¹³ For they themselves having been circumcised do not even keep the Law, but they desire you to be circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

⁹ His anger has torn, and hated me; He gnashes at me with His teeth; my enemy sharpens His eyes at me.

¹⁶ with the ungodly, mockers for a cake, gnashing their teeth on me.

¹⁰ The wicked shall see and be vexed; he shall gnash his teeth and melt; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

¹⁶ All your haters have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed up. Surely this is the day for which we waited; we have found; we have seen.

¹² but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁴² And they will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁵⁰ and will throw them into the furnace of fire; there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Binding his feet and hands, take him away and throw him out into the outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

⁵¹ and will cut him in two, and will appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

³⁰ And throw the worthless slave out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

²⁸ There will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrust outside.

²² And they heard him until this word, and lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth, for it is not fitting that he should live! ²³ And they shouting, and tearing the garments, and throwing dust into the air,

³¹ For He shall stand at the right hand of the needy; to save from those judging his soul.

¹ In the year that king Uzziah died, then I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up. And His train filled the temple. ² Above it stood the seraphs. Each one had six wings; with two he covered his face; and with two he covered his feet; and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of Hosts; all the earth is full of His glory!

²⁶ And from above the expanse that was over their heads was an appearance like a sapphire stone, the likeness of a throne. And on the likeness of the throne was a likeness in appearance like a man on it from above. ²⁷ And I saw Him, like the color of polished bronze, looking like fire within it all around. From the appearance of His loins and upward, and from the appearance of His loins and downward, I saw Him looking like fire; and brightness to it all around. ²⁸ As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of the rain, so appeared the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And I saw, and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking.

⁴ And the glory of Jehovah lifted up from the cherub, over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud. And the court was full of the radiance of the glory of Jehovah.

¹⁸ And the glory of Jehovah went from the threshold of the house and stood over the cherubs.

²³ And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain which is on the east of the city.

⁸ But by the Spirit of Jehovah I am full of power and justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and his sin to Israel.

¹⁹ Then indeed, after speaking to them, the Lord was taken up into Heaven, and sat off the right of God. Psa. 110:1

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will receive you to Myself, that where I am you may be also.

¹⁰ And as they were intently looking into the heaven, He having gone, even behold, two men in white clothing stood by them, ¹¹ who also said, Men, Galileans, why do you stand looking up to the heaven? This Jesus, the One being taken from you into the heaven, will come in the way you saw Him going into the heaven.

⁴ And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave ability to them to speak.

⁸ Then being filled of the Holy Spirit, Peter said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

³ Then brothers, be looking for men among you receiving testimony, seven men full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint over this need.

⁵ And the saying was pleasing before all the multitude. And they chose out Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch,

⁸ And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing wonders and great signs among the people.

⁹ But Saul, who is also Paul, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and looking intently on him, ¹⁰ he said, O son of the Devil, full of all guile and of all cunning, enemy of all righteousness, will you not stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

⁶ Because it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine," who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Isa. 42:6, 7, 16

² I know a man in Christ fourteen years before--whether in the body, I do not know, or out of the body, I do not know, God knows--such a one was caught up to the third Heaven. ³ And I know such a man--whether in the body or out of the body, I do not know; God knows-- ⁴ that he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not permissible for a man to speak.

¹ Now a summary over the things being said: We have such a High Priest, who sat down on the right of the throne of the Majesty in Heaven, Psa. 110:1

¹⁷ For receiving honor and glory from God the Father such a voice being borne to Him from the magnificent glory, "This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I was well pleased," Psa. 2:7; Gen. 22:2; Isa. 42:1; Matt. 17:5

¹ After these things I saw. And behold, a door being opened in Heaven! And I heard the first voice as a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you what needs to happen after these things. ² And at once I became in spirit. And, behold, a throne was set in Heaven, and One sitting on the throne. ³ And the One sitting was in appearance like a jasper stone, and a sardius; and a rainbow was around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

¹¹ having the glory of God. And its light was like a very precious stone, as a jasper stone, being clear as crystal,

¹ And it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

¹³ I was looking in the night visions. And behold! One like the Son of Man came with the clouds of the heavens. And He came to the Ancient of Days. And they brought Him near before Him. ¹⁴ And dominion was given to Him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

¹⁶ And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water. And, behold! The heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God coming down as a dove, and coming upon Him.

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere He may lay His head.

²⁷ For the Son of man is about to come with His angels in the glory of His Father. And then "He will give reward to each according to his actions." LXX-Psa. 61:13; Pro. 24:12; MT-Psa. 62:12 ²⁸ Truly I say to you, There are some standing here who in no way will taste of death until they see the Son of man coming in His kingdom.

³¹ But when the Son of man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

⁶⁴ Jesus said to him, You said it . I tell you more. From this time you shall see the Son of man sitting off the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of the heavens. Psa. 110:1; LXX-Dan. 7:13 ⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, He blasphemed! Why do we have any more need of witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

¹⁰ And going up from the water, immediately He saw the heavens being torn, and the Spirit coming down as a dove upon Him.

²¹ And it happened, in the baptizing of all the people, Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened;

⁵¹ And He says to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, from now on you will see Heaven opened, and "the angels of God ascending and descending" on the Son of man. Gen. 28:12

²² For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ so that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. The one not honoring the Son does not honor the Father who has sent Him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes the One who has sent Me, has everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. ²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones hearing will live. ²⁶ For even as the Father has life in Himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in Himself. ²⁷ And He also gave authority to Him to execute judgment, for He is the Son of man.

¹¹ And he saw the heaven being opened and a certain vessel like a great sheet coming down on him, being bound by four corners, and let down onto the earth;

¹⁶ And this happened three times, and the vessel was taken up into the heaven again.

¹ After these things I saw. And behold, a door being opened in Heaven! And I heard the first voice as a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you what needs to happen after these things.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in Heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple, and lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and earthquake, and a great hail occurred.

¹¹ And I saw Heaven being opened. And, behold! A white horse, and He sitting on it having been called Faithful and True. And He judges and wars in righteousness.

⁴ Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

¹³ Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he himself shall also call, and shall not be answered.

¹¹ But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and they made their ears heavy from hearing.

²⁷ But when the seven days were about to be completed, having seen him in the temple, the Jews from Asia stirred up all the crowd, and they laid hands on him, ²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place. ²⁹ For they had before seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they supposed that Paul brought into the temple. ³⁰ And the whole city was moved, and there was a running together of people. And having laid hold of Paul, they drew him outside of the temple, and at once the doors were shut. ³¹ But as they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the chiliarch of the cohort, that all Jerusalem is in a tumult.

²⁷ This man being seized by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them, coming on with the soldiers I rescued him, learning that he was a Roman.

¹⁴ Bring out the reviler to the outside of the camp. And all those who heard shall lay their hands on his head, and all the congregation shall stone him. ¹⁵ And you shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, When any man curses his God then he shall bear his sin. ¹⁶ And he who blasphemes the name of Jehovah shall certainly be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly cast stones at him. As to the alien, so to a native, when he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death.

³⁵ And Jehovah said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.

⁹ But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last. ¹⁰ And you shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, for he has sought to drive you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves.

⁷ The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him, to put him to death; and the hand of all the people last. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

¹³ And two men, sons of worthlessness, came in and sat across from him. And the men of worthlessness testified of him before the people, even Naboth, saying, Naboth has cursed God and the king. And they took him out to the outside of the city, and stoned him with stones. And he died.

²⁹ And rising up, they threw Him outside the city, and led Him up to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, in order to throw Him down.

²³ And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon's Porch. ²⁴ Then the Jews encircled Him, and said to Him, How long do you lift up our soul? If you are the Christ, tell us publicly. ²⁵ Jesus answered them, I told you, and you did not believe. The works which I do in the name of My Father, these bear witness about Me. ²⁶ But you do not believe for you are not of My sheep, as I said to you.

¹¹ Then they induced some men to be saying, We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!

¹³ And they stood up false witnesses, who were saying, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law;

¹ And Saul was consenting to the doing away of him. And in that day a great persecution took place on the church which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

¹ But still breathing threats and murder toward the disciples of the Lord, coming to the high priest, ² Saul asked from him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any being of the Way, both men and women, having bound them he might bring them to Jerusalem. ³ But in the going it happened! He drew near to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the heaven shone around him. ⁴ And falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute Me? ⁵ And he said, Sir, who are you? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the prods. ⁶ Both trembling and being astonished he said, Lord, what do you desire me to do? And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the city, and it will be told you what you must do. ⁷ But the men traveling with him had been standing speechless, indeed hearing the voice, but seeing no one. ⁸ And Saul was lifted up from the earth, but his eyes being opened he saw no one. And leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus. ⁹ And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink. ¹⁰ And there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! And he said, Behold, Lord, I am here . ¹¹ And the Lord said to him, Rising up pass along on the street being called Straight and seek a Tarsian, Saul by name, in the house of Judas. For, behold, he is praying. ¹² And he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting a hand on him, so that he may see again. ¹³ And Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many bad things he did to Your saints in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all the ones calling on Your name. ¹⁵ And the Lord said to him, Go, for this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel. ¹⁶ For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of My name. ¹⁷ And Ananias went away and entered into the house. And putting hands on him he said, Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me, Jesus, the One who appeared to you in the highway on which you came, that you may see and be filled of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ And instantly it was as if scales fell away from his eyes. And rising up at the thing happening, he was baptized. ¹⁹ And taking food he was strengthened. And Saul was with the disciples in Damascus some days.

⁴ I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering up both men and women to prisons,

²⁰ And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was poured out, I myself also was standing by and consenting to his execution, and holding the garments of those killing him.

¹² Indeed, because of this, in order that He might sanctify the people by His own blood, Jesus suffered outside the gate. ¹³ So let us go forth to Him outside the camp bearing His reproach.

⁵ Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Jehovah, God of truth.

³² For it shall be, all who shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be saved. For salvation shall be in Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, as Jehovah has said, and among the saved whom Jehovah shall call.

⁴⁶ And crying with a loud voice, Jesus said, Father, "into Your hands I commit My spirit." And saying this, He breathed out the spirit. Psa. 31:5

²¹ "And it shall be that everyone who shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved." Joel 3:15

¹⁴ And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all the ones calling on Your name.

²¹ And all those hearing were amazed and said, Is this not the one destroying those who have called on this Name in Jerusalem, and he had come here for this, that binding them he might lead them before the chief priests?

¹⁶ And now what do you intend? Rising up, be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

¹² For there is no difference both of Jew and of Greek, for the same Lord of all is rich toward all the ones calling on Him. ¹³ For everyone, "whoever may call on the name of the Lord will be saved." Joel 3:5 ¹⁴ How then may they call on One in whom they have not believed? And how may they believe One of whom they have not heard? And how may they hear without preaching?

² to the church of God which is in Corinth, those having been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called-out saints, with all those calling on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

⁵ And at the evening offering I rose up from my fasting, and with my garment and my robe torn, I even fell on my knees and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God.

¹⁰ And when he had learned that the document was signed, Daniel went to his house. And his windows were open in his roof room toward Jerusalem. He knelt on his knees three times in the day, and prayed and praised before his God, as he did before.

⁴⁴ but I say to you, Love your enemies; bless those cursing you, do well to those hating you; and pray for those abusing and persecuting you,

⁵² And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

²⁸ bless those cursing you and pray for those insulting you.

⁴¹ And He was withdrawn from them, about a stone's throw. And placing the knees, He prayed,

³⁴ And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. And dividing His garments, they cast a lot. Psa. 22:18

⁴⁰ And putting all out, placing the knees Peter prayed. And turning to the body he said, Tabitha, Arise! And she opened her eyes. And seeing Peter she sat up.

³⁶ For having served his own generation by the counsel of God, David truly fell asleep and was added to his fathers and saw corruption. 1 Kg. 2:10

³⁶ And saying these things, placing his knees, he prayed with them all.

⁵ But when it was time for us to complete the days, going out, we traveled. And they, with all the women and children went with us as far as outside the city. And placing the knees on the shore, we prayed.

¹⁴ Bless those persecuting you; bless, and do not curse. ¹⁵ Rejoice with rejoicing ones, and weep with weeping ones; ¹⁶ minding the same thing toward one another, not minding high things, but yielding to the lowly. Do not become wise within yourselves. ¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil, having provided right things before all men. Prov. 3:4 ¹⁸ If possible, as far as is in you, seeking peace with all men; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath, for it has been written, "Vengeance is Mine," "I will repay," says the Lord. Deut. 32:35 ²⁰ Then "if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him drink; for doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head." Prov. 25:21, 22 ²¹ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome the evil with good.

³⁰ For this reason many among you are weak and feeble, and many sleep.

⁶ Then He appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also fell asleep.

¹⁸ And then those that fell asleep in Christ were lost.

²⁰ But now Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.

⁵¹ Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed.

¹³ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who sleep, that you not grieve, as the rest also, not having hope. ¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him all those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

¹⁰ He dying on our behalf, so that whether we watch or we sleep, we may live together with Him.