Genesis 27 Cross References - LITV

¹ And it happened when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim for seeing, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Behold me. ² And he said, Behold! Now, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. ³ And now please lift up your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go to the field and hunt game for me. ⁴ And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die. ⁵ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. And Esau went to the field to hunt game, to bring it in. ⁶ And Rebekah spoke to her son Jacob, saying, Behold, I heard your father speaking to your brother Esau saying, ⁷ Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before I die. ⁸ And now my son hear my voice, that which I tell you. ⁹ Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them into delicious things for your father, such as he loves; ¹⁰ and you shall bring it to your father and let him eat, so that he may bless you before his death. ¹¹ And Jacob said to his mother Rebekah, Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I a smooth man. ¹² Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not blessing. ¹³ And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice and go, take for me. ¹⁴ And he went and took and came to his mother. And his mother made delicious things, such as his father loved. ¹⁵ And Rebekah took the clothing of her elder son Esau, the costly ones which were with her in the house. And she dressed her younger son Jacob; ¹⁶ and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smoothness of his neck. ¹⁷ And she put the delicious things and the bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob. ¹⁸ And he went in to his father and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. Who are you, my son? ¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father, I am your first born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me. ²⁰ And Isaac said to his son, How then have you quickly found it, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God made it come to me. ²¹ And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not. ²² And Jacob came near to his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are Esau's hands. ²³ And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him. ²⁴ And he said, Are you then my son Esau? And he said, I am . ²⁵ And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine. ²⁶ And his father Isaac said to him, Now come and kiss me, my son. ²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed. ²⁸ And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine. ²⁹ May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you. ³⁰ And it happened that when Isaac had made an end blessing Jacob, then it came about that Jacob had hardly left from the face of his father Isaac, and his brother Esau came in from his hunting. ³¹ And he also made delicious things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me. ³² And his father Isaac said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your first born, Esau. ³³ And Isaac was terrified with a very great anxiety. And he said, Who then was the one who hunted game and came to me; and I ate from it all before you came; and I blessed him? Yea, he shall be blessed. ³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out a great and very bitter cry. And he said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father. ³⁵ And he said, Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing. ³⁶ And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me? ³⁷ And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son? ³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Is one blessing left to you, my father? Bless me, me also, my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. ³⁹ And his father Isaac answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above; ⁴⁰ and you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck. ⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob. ⁴² And the words of her older son Esau were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, Behold! Your brother Esau is going to ease himself on you, to kill you. ⁴³ And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran. ⁴⁴ And stay with him some days until your brother's fury turns away, ⁴⁵ until your brother's anger turns back from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. And I will send and take you from there. Why should I also be bereaved of two of you in one day? ⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life from the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these from the daughters of the land, what is my life to me?

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.

¹⁰ And the eyes of Israel were heavy from age, he not being able to see. And he brought them near to him. And he kissed them and embraced them.

² And it happened at that time, Eli was lying down in his place, and his eyes had begun to be dim; he was not able to see.

³ in the day when the housekeepers shall tremble, and the strong men are bowed, and the grinders cease because they are few; and those looking out the windows are darkened;

³ Jesus answered, Neither this one nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.

²⁹ And the days of Israel to die drew near. And he called to his son Joseph and said to him, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and do kindness and truth with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt;

²¹ And Israel said to Joseph, See, I am dying; and God will be with you, and will return you to the land of your fathers.

³ And David again swore and said, Your father has certainly known that I have found favor in your eyes; and he said, Do not let Jonathan know this, that he not be grieved. And yet, as Jehovah lives, and your soul lives, there is only a step between me and death.

¹ Do not boast in the day of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

¹⁰ All that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength. For there is no work, or planning, or knowledge, or wisdom, in Sheol, there where you go.

¹ In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Command your house, for you are dying, and shall not live.

³ and said, O Jehovah, I beg You to remember now that I have walked before You in truth and with a whole heart; and I have done the good in Your eyes. And Hezekiah wept with a great weeping.

³⁵ then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;

¹⁴ who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little while appears, and then disappears.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; so it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before Jehovah.

²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents. ²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but not all things profit. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be ruled by any.

¹⁹ And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you become myriads of thousands, and may your seed possess the gate of their haters.

⁷ Bring game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before I die.

²³ And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

²⁵ And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine.

²⁷ And he came near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothes. And he blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah has blessed.

³¹ And he also made delicious things and came to his father. And he said to his father, Let my father rise and eat from the game of his son, so that your soul may bless me.

³ And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of nations.

⁹ And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given to me here. And he said, Now bring them to me and I will bless them.

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. ¹⁷ And Joseph saw that his father was putting his right hand on the head of Ephraim; and it was evil in his eyes. And he took hold of his father's hand to turn it from Ephraim's head to the head of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father! For this one is the first born; put your right hand on his head. ¹⁹ And his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall be a people, and he shall become great. But his younger brother shall become greater than he, and his seed shall become the fullness of the nations. ²⁰ And he blessed them in that day, saying, In you shall Israel bless, saying, May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.

²⁸ All these were the tribes of Israel, two and ten. And this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, each one with what was according to his blessing, he blessed them.

²² And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. ²³ And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation. And they came out and blessed the people; and the glory of Jehovah appeared to all the people.

¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death. 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. ³ Yes, He loves the peoples; all His holy ones are in Your hand; and they sit down at Your feet; He lifts up each at Your words. ⁴ Moses has commanded a law to us, an inheritance for the congregation of Jacob. ⁵ And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people assembled, the tribes of Israel. ⁶ Let Reuben live, and not die, and let his men be numbered. ⁷ And this for Judah: And he said, Hear the voice of Judah, O Jehovah, and bring him in to his people; his hands were much for him, and You shall be a help against his foes. ⁸ And of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are for your devout man whom You tested at Massah; You contended with him at the Waters of Strife; ⁹ who said of his father and his mother, I have not seen him. And he has not acknowledged his brothers, and did not know his own son, for they have kept Your word, and observed Your covenant. ¹⁰ They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob, and Your law to Israel. They shall put incense at Your nostrils, and whole burnt offering on Your altar. ¹¹ O Jehovah, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Dash the loins of those rising against him, those who hate him, that they may not rise! ¹² Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah shall dwell securely beside Him, covering him all the day long; yea he shall dwell between His shoulders. ¹³ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, with the best of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep crouching beneath; ¹⁴ and with the best of the produce of the sun, and with the best yield of the months; ¹⁵ and with the first of the ancient mountains, and with the best of the everlasting hills; 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. ¹⁷ His glory is as the first-born of his ox, and the horns of the wild ox are his horns; with them he shall butt the peoples together to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. ¹⁸ And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, O Zebulun, in your going out, and O Issachar, in your tents; ¹⁹ to the mountains they call the peoples; there they shall offer righteous sacrifices for they shall suck the bounty of the seas, and treasures hidden in the sand. ²⁰ And of Gad he said, Blessed is he who enlarges Gad; he shall live like a lioness, and shall tear the arm, also the crown. ²¹ And he eyes the first part for himself, for there was the portion of the lawgiver hidden; and he came with the rulers of the people; he executed the justice of Jehovah, and His judgments with Israel. ²² And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp; he shall leap from Bashan. ²³ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with good will and full of the blessing of Jehovah; possess the west and the south. ²⁴ And of Asher he said, Asher shall be blessed with sons; let him be accepted by his brothers, and dip his foot in oil. ²⁵ May your shoe latches be iron and bronze, and your days as your strength. ²⁶ None is like the God of Jeshurun, riding the heavens for your help, and the clouds in His majesty. ²⁷ The God of old is a refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And He shall cast the enemy out from before you, and shall say, Destroy! ²⁸ And Israel shall live alone in safety; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens drop down dew. ²⁹ Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you? A people saved by Jehovah, the Shield of your help, and He who is the Sword of your excellency! And your enemies shall be found liars before you, and you shall tread on their high places.

¹³ And Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

⁶ And Joshua blessed them and sent them away. And they went to their tents.

³⁴ And Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mariam, Behold, this One is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

⁵¹ And it happened as He blessed them, He withdrew from them and was carried into Heaven.

²⁰ By faith concerning things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob.

¹ And this is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death.

²⁶ And at that time Joshua adjured, saying, Cursed be the man who rises up before the face of Jehovah and builds this city of Jericho. He shall lay its foundation in his first-born, and he shall set up its doors in his youngest son.

¹⁹ For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go on his way well? And Jehovah will repay you good for that which you have done to me today.

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.

¹³ And his mother said to him, Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice and go, take for me.

⁴³ And now, my son, listen to my voice, and rise, flee for yourself to my brother Laban, to Haran.

¹⁹ But answering them Peter and John said, Whether it is right before God to listen to you rather than God, you judge.

²⁹ But answering Peter and the apostles said, It is right to obey God rather than man.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

¹⁵ And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, Please let us keep You, and prepare before You a kid of the goats.

²⁰ And Jesse took an ass, with bread, and a skin of wine, and one kid of the goats; and he sent by the hand of his son David to Saul.

²⁵ And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau.

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a slave of slaves to his brothers.

²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents.

²¹ And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not. ²² And Jacob came near to his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are Esau's hands.

³⁶ And he said, It is because his name is called Jacob, and this twice he took me by the heel; he took my birthright and, behold, now he has taken my blessing. And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?

¹⁸ Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way! And All the people shall say, Amen!

¹⁶ With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.

¹⁰ Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.

¹⁴ But cursed be a deceiver and there is a male in his flock, yet he vows it, but he sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord. For I am a great King, says Jehovah of hosts, and My name is feared among the nations.

⁸ through glory and dishonor, through evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

²² Keep back from every appearance of evil.

³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.

⁸ And now my son hear my voice, that which I tell you.

⁹ I will be surety for him; you may require him from my hand. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, I shall be a sinner against you all the days.

²⁴ And the men of Israel were distressed on that day, for Saul took an oath of the people, saying, Cursed shall be the man who eats food until the evening, when I have been avenged on my foes. And none of the people tasted food. ²⁵ And all those of the land came into a forest, and there was honey on the ground. ²⁶ And the people came into the forest; and behold, a flow of honey! But no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath. ²⁷ And Jonathan did not hear when his father made the people swear. And he put out the tip of the staff in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. And he put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened. ²⁸ And one of the people answered and said, Your father certainly took an oath of the people, saying, Cursed shall be the man who eats food today. And the people were weak.

³⁶ And Saul said Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light, and not a man remains among them. And they said, Do all that is good in your eyes. And the priest said, Let us draw near here to God. ³⁷ And Saul asked of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel? But He did not answer him on that day. ³⁸ And Saul said, All leaders of the people draw near here, and know and see how this sin has happened today. ³⁹ For as Jehovah lives, who delivers Israel, surely if it is my son Jonathan, he shall certainly die. And no one answered him from all the people. ⁴⁰ And he said to all Israel, You be on one side, and my son Jonathan and I will be on another side. And the people said to Saul, Do that which is good in your eyes. ⁴¹ And Saul said to Jehovah, the God of Israel, Give a perfect lot . And Jonathan and Saul were taken, and the people went out. ⁴² And Saul said, Cast between me and my son Jonathan. And Jonathan was taken. ⁴³ And Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me, what did you do? And Jonathan told him, and said, I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff in my hand. Behold, I am here; I will die. ⁴⁴ And Saul said, God do so and more also, for you shall surely die, Jonathan. 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.

²⁴ And she fell at his feet and said, On me, even me, my lord, be the iniquity. And I beg you, let your handmaid speak in your ears; and hear the words of your handmaid.

⁹ And the woman of Tekoah said to the king, My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house; and the king and his throne shall be guiltless.

²⁵ And answering, all the people said, His blood be on us and on our children.

⁴ And make for me delicious things, such as I love, and bring to me, and I will eat; so that my soul may bless you before I die.

⁹ Go now to the flock and bring me from there two good kids of the goats. And I will make them into delicious things for your father, such as he loves;

¹⁷ And she put the delicious things and the bread which she had made in the hand of her son Jacob.

⁴ Do not let my heart turn aside to any evil thing, to practice deeds in wickedness with men who do evil; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.

² and put a knife to your throat if you are an owner of an appetite. ³ Do not desire his delicacies, for it is the bread of lies.

³⁴ But take heed to yourselves that your hearts not be loaded down with headaches, and drinking, and anxieties of life, and that day come suddenly upon you

²² But the father said to his slaves, Bring out the best robe and clothe him, and give a ring for his hand and sandals for his feet.

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, those desiring to walk about in long robes, and liking greetings in the markets, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief couches in the suppers,

²¹ And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not.

²⁴ And he said, Are you then my son Esau? And he said, I am . ²⁵ And he said, Bring to me and let me eat of my son's game, so that my soul may bless you. And he came near to him; and he took and he ate. And he came to him, and he drank wine.

²³ And it happened in the evening, he took his daughter Leah and brought her to him; and he went in to her. ²⁴ And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his slave-girl, to his daughter Leah as a slave. ²⁵ And it happened in the morning; behold! She was Leah. And he said to Laban, What have you done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? And why have you tricked me?

¹⁸ And he said to him, I also am a prophet like yourself, and an angel spoke to me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, and he shall eat bread and water (he lied to him).

² And Jeroboam said to his wife, Please rise up and disguise yourself, that you may not be known to be the wife of Jeroboam. And you shall go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there. He spoke to me of being king over this people.

¹⁵ Because you have said, We have cut a covenant with death; and, We have made a vision with Sheol, when the overwhelming rod passes through it will not come to us for we have made the lie our refuge, and we have hidden in falsehood.

³ And it shall be when any shall prophesy again, his father and his mother who gave him birth shall say to him then, You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of Jehovah. And his father and his mother who gave him birth shall pierce him when he prophesies. ⁴ And it shall be in that day, the prophets shall be ashamed, each one of his vision when he prophesies, and they shall not wear a hairy garment to deceive.

⁷⁰ But he denied before all, saying, I do not know what you say. ⁷¹ And he, going out into the porch, another saw him and said to those there, And this one was with Jesus the Nazarene. ⁷² And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. ⁷³ And after a little, coming near, those standing by said to Peter, Truly you also are of them, for even your speech makes you known. ⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. And immediately a cock crowed.

¹² And he said, Jehovah, God of my master Abraham, I pray, cause her to meet before me this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

⁷ You shall not take the name of Jehovah your God in vain; for Jehovah will not leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain.

⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God and speak deceitfully for Him?

¹² Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall be like a deceiver in his eyes, and I shall bring a curse on me, and not blessing.

²⁸ As for me, it is good for me to draw near to God; I have made my refuge in the Lord Jehovah, to declare all Your works.

¹⁹ I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace, to the ones far off and near, says Jehovah, and I will heal him.

⁸ Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners! And purify your hearts, double minded ones!

¹⁶ and she put the skins of the kids of the goats on his hands, and on the smoothness of his neck.

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

² And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a matter; and he said to me, Do not let a man know anything of the matter about which I am sending you, and which I told you. And I have directed the young men to such and such a place.

¹³ And he changed his behavior before their eyes, and pretended himself to be insane in their hand, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall onto his beard.

¹⁰ And Achish said, Did you not make raids today? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and to the south of the Kenites.

⁵ And the king said to her, What shall be to you? And she said, Truly I am a widow woman, and my husband died.

⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God and speak deceitfully for Him? ⁸ Will you lift up His face, or will you contend for God?

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

¹⁹ The lips of truth are established forever, but a lying tongue is only while I wink.

²² Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal faithfulness are His delight.

⁸ Remove vanity and a lying word far from me, do not give me poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,

¹⁶ These are the things that you shall do. Let each man speak the truth with his neighbor. Judge with truth and justice for peace in your gates,

⁷ For if in my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I yet judged as a sinner? ⁸ And not (as we are wrongly accused, and as some report us to say), Let us do bad things so that good things may come, the judgment of whom is just.

²⁵ Therefore, putting off the false," speak truth each with his neighbor," because we are members of one another. Zech. 8:16

⁹ Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his practices,

¹² And Isaac sowed in that land. And a hundredfold was found in that year, and Jehovah blessed him.

¹⁰ You fill its terraces with water. You deepen its furrows. You make it soft with showers. You bless the sprouting of it.

¹³ The fig tree spices her unripe figs, and the vines give a fragrance by the blossom. Arise, My love; come, My beautiful one, and come yourself.

¹¹ Your lips, My spouse, drip like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue. And the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon. ¹² A locked garden is My sister, My spouse; a rock heap locked up, a sealed fountain. ¹³ Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with excellent fruits, with henna and spikenard; ¹⁴ spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon; with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes; with all the chief balsam spices;

¹² Let us rise up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flowers and the blossom opens, and the pomegranates bud forth. There I will give my loves to You. ¹³ The love apples give a scent, and over our doors are all excellent fruits; new, also old, I have laid up for You, my Beloved.

⁶ His branches shall go out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon to Him. ⁷ They who live under his shadow shall return; they shall live like the grain, and blossom like the vine; their memorial shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

⁷ (For the earth drinking in the rain often coming upon it, and producing plants fit for those for whom it is also worked, receives blessing from God;

³⁹ And his father Isaac answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be from the fat of the earth and from the dew of the heavens above;

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.

²⁰ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall give a king's delicacies.

²⁰ and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean; whether wood is in it or not. And you shall make yourselves strong and shall take of the fruit of the land. And it was the days of the firstripe grapes.

¹² All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, I have given to you.

¹³ And He will love you, and bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your oxen and the wealth of your flock, in the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to give it to you.

⁷ For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of streams of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills, ⁸ a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey, ⁹ a land in which you shall eat bread without want; you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron; and you shall dig copper out of its mountains.

¹¹ But the land which you are entering to possess it is a land of hills and valleys, drinking water from the rain of the heavens; ¹² a land which Jehovah your God cares for; the eyes of Jehovah your God are constantly on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

² My doctrine shall drop as the rain; my speech shall drop down as the dew, as the small rain on the tender plant, and as the showers on the grass;

¹³ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, with the best of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep crouching beneath;

²⁸ And Israel shall live alone in safety; the fountain of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; and his heavens drop down dew.

⁶ For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who had come out of Egypt were consumed, those who did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah had sworn to them not to show them the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers, to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey; these were consumed.

²¹ Mountains of Gilboa, let not dew or rain be on you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not being anointed with oil.

¹¹ And Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat, food for his house; and twenty measures of beaten oil. This Solomon gave to Hiram year by year.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

¹⁰ And behold, I shall give beaten wheat to the hewers, to those cutting down the trees, to your servants, twenty thousand kors of beaten wheat and twenty thousand kors of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

⁸ They shall be satisfied from the abundance of Your house; and You make them drink the torrent of Your pleasures.

⁹ You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water. You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it. ¹⁰ You fill its terraces with water. You deepen its furrows. You make it soft with showers. You bless the sprouting of it. ¹¹ You crown the year of Your goodness, and Your tracks drop with fruitfulness. ¹² The pastures of the wilderness drop, and the little hills gird themselves with joy. ¹³ The meadows are outfitted with flocks; the valleys are also covered with grain; they shout for joy and sing.

¹⁵ And wine cheers the heart of man; oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.

³ like the dew of Hermon coming down on the mountains of Zion; for there Jehovah commanded the blessing: life till everlasting.

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.

²² Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait for You; for You do all these things.

⁵ I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and cast out his roots like Lebanon.

¹⁹ Yea, Jehovah will answer and say to His people, Behold, I will send you grain, and wine, and oil, and you shall be satisfied with it. And I will no more make you a curse among the nations.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers on a blade of grass, which does not wait for man, nor delay for the sons of men.

¹² For there shall be peace for the seed: the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these.

¹⁷ For how great is its goodness, and how great its beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

¹⁷ But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree,

²⁵ And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a slave of slaves to his brothers. ²⁶ And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.

³ And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.

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.

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.

³⁷ And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son?

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 Judah, may your brothers praise you, your hand be on the neck of your enemies. May the sons of your father bow themselves to you. ⁹ Judah is a lion's whelp. My son, you have risen up from the prey; he stoops, he crouches like a lion; and like a lioness, who can rouse him? ¹⁰ The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawmaker from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and the obedience of the peoples to him.

¹¹ saying, Behold, a people has come out of Egypt which covers the eye of the earth. Now come, curse them for me; perhaps I will be able to overcome it and drive it out. ¹² And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for it is blessed.

⁸ How shall I curse him whom God has not cursed? And how shall I rage at him whom Jehovah has not raged at?

⁹ He has crouched; he has lain down like a lion, and like a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed is everyone that blesses you, and cursed is everyone that curses you.

¹ And it happened afterward, David struck the Philistines, and humbled them. And David took the Bridle of the Metropolis out of the hand of the Philistines. ² And he struck Moab, and measured them with a line; making them to lie down on the ground. And he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites were slaves to David, bearers of a gift. ³ And David struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the River. ⁴ And David captured from him seventeen hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen. And David hamstrung all of the chariot horses; he only left a hundred chariots of them. ⁵ And the Syrians of Damascus came to give help to Hadadezer the king of Zobah. And David struck twenty two thousand men of Syria. ⁶ And David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus. And the Syrians became servants to David, bearers of tribute. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went. ⁷ And David took the shields of gold which were on Hadadezer's servants and bore them to Jerusalem. ⁸ And king David took very much bronze from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer. ⁹ And Toi the king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer. ¹⁰ And Toi sent his son Joram to king David to ask of his peace, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him. For Hadadezer had been a man of wars against Toi. And in his hand were silver articles, and golden articles, and bronze articles. ¹¹ King David also dedicated them to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold which he dedicated of all the nations which he subdued: ¹² from Syria, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek, and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah. ¹³ And David made a name for himself when he returned, after he had struck the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand men . ¹⁴ And he put garrisons in all Edom; and all Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went. ¹⁵ And David reigned over all Israel, and David executed justice and righteousness to all his people. ¹⁶ And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the historian; ¹⁷ and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Seraiah was scribe; ¹⁸ and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and the sons of David were priests.

¹ And it happened afterward, the king of the Ammonites died. And his son Hanun reigned in his place. ² And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me. And David sent to comfort him concerning his father by the hand of his servants. And David servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon. ³ And the leaders of the sons of Ammon said to their lord Hanun. Is David honoring your father in your eyes, because he has sent comforters to you? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it? ⁴ And Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their long robes in the center, to their buttocks; and he sent them away. ⁵ And they told David, and he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Remain in Jericho until your beard grows; then you shall return. ⁶ And the sons of Ammon saw that they were odious to David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired Syrians from Beth-rehob, and Syrians from Zobah, twenty thousand footmen; and the king of Maacah with a thousand men; and the men of Tob with twelve thousand men. ⁷ And David heard, then he sent Joab and all the army, the mighty men. ⁸ And the sons of Ammon came out and set the battle in order at the opening of the gate. And the Syrians of Zobah, and Rehob, and the men of Tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field. ⁹ And Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind. And he chose from all the chosen in Israel, and set them in order to meet the Syrians. ¹⁰ And the rest of the people he gave into the hand of his brother Abishai, and he set in order to meet the sons of Ammon. ¹¹ And he said, If the Syrians are stronger than I, then you shall be for me; and if the sons of Ammon are stronger than you, then I will come to help you. ¹² Be strong, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God. And may Jehovah do that which seems good in His eyes. ¹³ And Joab and the people with him drew near to battle against the Syrians. And they fled before him. ¹⁴ And the sons of Ammon saw that the Syrians fled, and they fled before Abishai, and went into the city. And Joab returned from the sons of Ammon, and came to Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And Syria saw that it was stricken before Israel. And they assembled. ¹⁶ And Hadarezer sent and brought out the Syrians which were beyond the River. And they came to Helam, and Shobach was the commander of the army of Hadarezer before them. ¹⁷ And it was told to David. And he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in order to meet David. And they fought with him. ¹⁸ And the Syrians fled before Israel. And David killed from Syria seven hundred in chariots, and forty thousand horsemen. And he struck Shobach the commander of the army, and he died there. ¹⁹ And all the kings, the servants of Hadarezer, saw that they had been stricken before Israel. And they made peace with Israel, and served them. And Syria feared to help the sons of Ammon any more.

²¹ And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought presents and served Solomon all the days of his life.

¹⁵ And it happened when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had stricken every male in Edom; ¹⁶ Joab and all Israel remained there six months until every male in Edom was cut off.

⁴⁷ No king was in Edom; a deputy was king.

² for Judah prevailed among his brothers, and from him was the chief ruler, but the birthright was Joseph's)

¹¹ And Amaziah made himself strong and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the sons of Seir. ¹² And the sons of Judah captured ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock; and all of them were broken. ¹³ And the sons of the army that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to battle, these raided against the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and killed three thousand of them, and seized much prey. ¹⁴ And it happened, after Amaziah came in from smiting the Edomites, that he brought in the gods of the sons of Seir and made them stand as gods for himself; and bowed himself before them, and burned incense to them.

⁶ Yea, I have set My king on My holy mount on Zion. ⁷ I will declare concerning the statute of Jehovah: He said to Me, You are My Son. Today I have begotten You. ⁸ Ask of Me, and I will give the nations as Your inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession. ⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

¹ To the chief musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim, and with Aram-zobah; when Joab returned, and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God! You cast us off; You broke us; You who were angry; take us back. ² You made the earth tremble; You tore it; heal its breaks, for it is shaking. ³ You have shown Your people hardship; You made us drink the wine of trembling. ⁴ You have given a banner to those who fear You, to lift it up because of the truth. Selah. ⁵ Save with Your right hand and answer me, that Your beloved may be delivered. ⁶ God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. ⁷ Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; Ephraim is the strength of My head; Judah is My lawgiver; ⁸ Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast out My shoe; over me, Philistia, shout in triumph. ⁹ Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom? ¹⁰ Have not You, O God, cast us aside? And will You not go forth with our armies, O God? ¹¹ Give us help against our foe, for vain is the deliverance of man. ¹² Through God we shall do mighty things; for He shall tread on our foes.

⁸ He shall also rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

⁷ There is no end to the increase of His government and of peace on the throne of David, and on His kingdom, to order it, and to sustain it with justice and with righteousness, from now and forever. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts will do this.

¹⁴ So says Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the goods of Ethiopia, and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come to you; and they shall be yours. They shall come after you; they shall cross in chains; and they shall bow to you; they shall plead to you. Surely God is in you, and there is none else, no other God.

⁷ So says Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, to the despised of soul, to the hated of the nation, the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and rise up; and chiefs shall worship; because of Jehovah who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel; and He chose You.

²³ And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow to you, faces down to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am Jehovah, by whom they who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

¹ Who is this who comes from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah, this One adorned in His clothing, bending in His great power? It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save! ² Why is Your clothing red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? ³ I have trodden the winepress, I alone, and no man of the peoples was with Me. And I will tread them in My anger, and trample them in My fury; and their juice shall be spattered on My garments; and I will pollute all My clothes. ⁴ For the day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. ⁵ And I looked, and no one was helping. And I wondered that no one was upholding. Then My own arm saved for Me, and My fury upheld Me. ⁶ And I trod down the people in My anger, and made them drunk in My fury. And I poured their juice to the earth.

⁴⁴ And in the days of these kings, the God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people. It shall break in pieces and destroy all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. ⁴⁵ Because you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold in pieces. The great God has made known to the king what shall occur after this. And the dream is certain, and the meaning of it is trustworthy.

⁸ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the curses of the sons of Ammon, with which they have cursed My people and have magnified themselves on their border. ⁹ So as I live, declares Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and a pit of salt, and a ruin forever. The remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the rest of the nation shall possess them.

² I have loved you, says Jehovah. But you say, In what way have You loved us? Was not Esau the brother to Jacob? Yet Jehovah declares, I loved Jacob, ³ and I have hated Esau and have made his mountains a desolation, and his inheritance to be for the jackals of the wilderness. ⁴ If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the ruined places; so says Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will tear down. And they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant until forever. ⁵ And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, Jehovah will be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

⁴⁰ And answering, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did it to one of these, the least of My brothers, you did it to Me.

⁴⁵ Then He will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch as you did not do it to one of these, the least, neither did you do it to Me.

¹² it was said to her, "The greater shall serve the lesser;" Gen. 25:23

¹⁶ And He has on His garment and on His thigh a name having been written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.

¹⁸ And he went in to his father and said, My father. And he said, Behold me. Who are you, my son?

³ And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of nations. ⁴ And may He give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed with you, for you to possess the land of your travels, which God gave to Abraham.

⁶ And if I remember, I am dismayed; and trembling seizes on my flesh.

¹ My heart also trembles at this, and it leaps from its place.

⁵ Fear and trembling come on me; and honor has covered me.

¹⁰ The thief does not come except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life and may have it abundantly.

²⁸ And I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish to the age, and not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand. ²⁹ My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of My Father's hand.

²⁰ But Law came in beside, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace much more abounded, ²¹ that as sin ruled in death, so also grace might rule through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²⁹ For the free gifts and the calling of God are without repentance.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies with Christ,

⁴ And David and the people with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no power in them to weep.

²⁴ Because I called, and you refused; I stretch out a hand, and none inclines, ²⁵ but you have ignored all my counsel, and you did not desire my warning. ²⁶ I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your dread comes; ²⁷ when your dread comes like a storm; and your calamity arrives like a tempest, when distress and constraint come on you. ²⁸ Then they shall call on me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

³¹ and they shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own lusts.

³ The foolishness of man overturns his way, and his heart rages against Jehovah.

²⁴ Labor to enter in through the narrow gate, for I say to you that many will seek to enter in and will not have strength. ²⁵ From the time the Master of the house shall have risen up, and He shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. And answering, He will say to you, I do not know you. From where are you? ²⁶ Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets. ²⁷ And He will say, I tell you I do not know you, from where you are. "Stand back from Me all workers of unrighteousness!" Psa. 6:8 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.

¹⁷ for you know also that afterwards desiring to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place of repentance, although seeking it with tears. Gen. 27:36-39

¹⁹ And Jacob said to his father, I am your first born, Esau. I have done as you said to me. Rise up now, sit and eat of my game, so that your soul may bless me. ²⁰ And Isaac said to his son, How then have you quickly found it, my son? And he said, Because Jehovah your God made it come to me. ²¹ And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near now and let me feel you, whether then you are my son Esau, or not. ²² And Jacob came near to his father Isaac. And he felt him, and he said, The voice is the voice of Jacob and the hands are Esau's hands. ²³ And he did not know him, because his hands were like the hairy hands of his brother Esau. And he blessed him.

¹⁹ And now call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. Do not let a man be lacking, for I shall have a great sacrifice to Baal. Anyone who is lacking, he shall not live. And Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal.

¹⁰ Is there not one father to us all? Has not one God created us? Why do we act deceitfully, each man with his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers?

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us;

⁶ not to go beyond and to overreach his brother in the matter, because the avenger concerning all these is the Lord, even as we told you before, and solemnly testified.

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 Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what good is this, a birthright to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.

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.

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said concerning him, Behold, truly an Israelite in whom is no guile!

²⁸ And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine. ²⁹ May the nations serve you and peoples bow to you; be a ruler to your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow to you, and cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.

¹⁴ And he put garrisons in all Edom; and all Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah helped David in all places in which he went.

¹⁰ And not only so, but also Rebekah conceiving of one, our father Isaac,

³⁴ When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out a great and very bitter cry. And he said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father.

²⁴ Because I called, and you refused; I stretch out a hand, and none inclines, ²⁵ but you have ignored all my counsel, and you did not desire my warning. ²⁶ I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your dread comes;

¹⁰ You will shake for days on a year, confident women; for the vintage fails; the harvest will not come. ¹¹ Tremble, women at ease; shake, confident women; strip and make yourselves bare, and bind on sackcloth on your loins; ¹² be wailing over breasts, over pleasant fields, over the fruitful vine.

¹⁴ Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry from heartbreak, and howl from breaking of spirit.

²⁸ And may God give you of the dew of the heavens, and of the fatness of the earth, and much grain and wine.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his livestock, and all the beasts of burden, and all his property which he had gained in Canaan, and he went to a land away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their possessions had become too great for them to dwell together. And the land was not able to bear their travels, because of their livestock. ⁸ And Esau dwelt on Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.

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.

⁶ And the messengers came back to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and also he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.

¹⁵ And it happened when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, after he had stricken every male in Edom; ¹⁶ Joab and all Israel remained there six months until every male in Edom was cut off. ¹⁷ And Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; and Hadad was a little child.

²⁰ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they caused a king to reign over them. ²¹ And Jehoram passed over to Zair, and all the chariots with him. And it happened, he rose up by night and struck Edom, who had encircled him, and the commanders of the chariots. And the people fled to their tents. ²² Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

⁷ He struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, ten thousand, and captured the Rock by war, and called its name Joktheel to this day.

¹⁰ You have certainly stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Glory in it and stay in your house; and why should you stir yourself up to evil so that you may fall, you and Judah with you?

¹¹ also these king David sanctified to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the Ammonites, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. ¹² And Abishai the son of Zeruiah had killed eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt; ¹³ and he put command posts in Edom, and all the Edomites were servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David wherever he went.

⁸ In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king to reign over them.

¹⁰ And Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Jehovah, the God of his fathers.

¹¹ And Amaziah made himself strong and led his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the sons of Seir. ¹² And the sons of Judah captured ten thousand alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock; and all of them were broken.

¹⁷ And again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and had seized a captivity.

⁸ Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast out My shoe; over me, Philistia, shout in triumph.

¹⁷ But the ones who escaped shall be on Mount Zion, and it shall be holy. And the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for straw. And they shall burn among them and consume them. And no survivor shall be to the house of Esau, for Jehovah has spoken. ¹⁹ And those of Negeb shall possess the mountain of Esau, and the low country of the Philistines. And they shall possess Ephraim's fields, and Samaria's fields. And Benjamin shall possess Gilead. ²⁰ And the exiles of this force shall go to the sons of Israel who shall possess the land of the Canaanites to Zarephath; even the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb. ²¹ And deliverers shall go up into the mountain of Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be to Jehovah.

³⁴ Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

² And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground. ³ And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground. ⁴ And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering. ⁵ And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed greatly with anger, and his face fell. ⁶ And Jehovah said to Cain, Why have you angrily glowed, and why has your face fallen? ⁷ If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is toward you; but you should rule over it. ⁸ And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened as they were in the field, Cain rose up against His brother Abel, and killed him.

¹¹ Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, mother to sons.

²⁹ And Isaac expired and died and was gathered to his people, old and satisfied of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

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.

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.

³ And forty days were fulfilled, for so are fulfilled the days of those embalmed. And Egypt wept for him seventy days. ⁴ And the days of his weeping passed by, and Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

¹⁰ And they came as far as the threshing floor of thorns, which is on the other side of the Jordan. And they mourned there with a great and very heavy mourning. And he made a lamentation for his father seven days. ¹¹ And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the wailing in the grain floor of thorns. And they said, This is a very great wailing to Egypt; for this reason its name was called The Meadow of Egypt, which is on the other side of Jordan.

⁸ And the sons of Israel mourned Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. And the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

²⁸ And Absalom commanded his young men, saying, Now watch when Amnon's heart is glad with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Did not I command you? Be strong, and be valiant. ²⁹ And the young men of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom commanded. And all the king's sons rose up, and they each rode on his mule, and fled.

²⁴ And his servants passed him out from the chariot, and caused him to ride in a second chariot of his, and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the graves of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem were mourning for Josiah.

¹⁴ I walked as a friend, as to my brother; as one who mourns a mother; I was bowed down mourning.

¹² The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes on him with his teeth; ¹³ the Lord laughs at him, for He sees that his day is coming.

¹⁶ A little to the righteous is better than the abundance of many wicked.

⁴ O Jehovah, keep me from the wicked's hands; keep me from the violent man who plans to trip up my steps. ⁵ The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.

³ When my spirit faints within me, then You know my path; they have hidden a snare for me in the path in which I walk.

¹² let us swallow them up alive as Sheol; and whole, as those who go down into the Pit, ¹³ we shall find all precious goods; we shall fill our houses with plunder;

¹⁶ for their feet run to evil and they haste to shed blood.

¹⁴ Perversity is in his heart; he is plotting evil at every time, he sends out strife.

⁹ Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.

¹² So says the Lord Jehovah: Because Edom has acted by taking vengeance against the house of Judah, and they are very guilty and are avenged on them, ¹³ so the Lord Jehovah says this: I will stretch My hand on Edom and will cut off from it man and beast, and I will lay it waste. From Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴ And I will put My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. And they shall do in Edom as is My anger and as is My fury. And they shall know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah. ¹⁵ So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have acted in vengeance and have taken vengeance with spite in their soul, to destroy with perpetual enmity.

⁵ Because there was to you never-ending enmity, and you poured out the sons of Israel to the hands of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end.

¹¹ So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he pursued his brother with the sword, and corrupted his compassions, and his anger tore continually, and he kept it, his wrath, forever. ¹² But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

¹⁰ Shame shall cover you from the violence against your brother Jacob, and you shall be cut off forever. ¹¹ On the day of your standing on the other side, on the day that the strangers take his force captive, and foreigners enter his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them. ¹² But you should not have looked on the day of your brother, on the day of his alienation; nor should you have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have enlarged your mouth in the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered into My people's gate on the day of his calamity; also you should not have looked on his evil on the day of his calamity, nor should you have sent out against his force in the day of his calamity. ¹⁴ Nor should you have stood on the crossways to cut off those of him who escaped, nor should you have shut up his survivors in the day of distress.

²⁶ "Be angry but do not sin;" do not let the sun go down on your wrath, LXX-Psa. 4:4; MT-Psa. 4:5 ²⁷ nor give place to the Devil.

¹⁵ Truly, all things are pure to the pure, but to the ones having been defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience has been defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and worthless to every good work.

³ For we also once were senseless, disobedient, led astray, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating 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.

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 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.

⁵ And the two wives of David had been taken, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail the former wife of Nabal of Carmel.

¹² Even if evil is sweet in his mouth (he hides it under his tongue), ¹³ he spares it, and will not leave it; yea, keeps holding it in his mouth); ¹⁴ yet his food in his belly shall be turned; the gall of asps is within him.

⁵ They make themselves strong in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil; they delight in the perversities of the wicked;

¹⁶ For they do not sleep if they have done no evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall. ¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

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.

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.

²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother, his name being Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain.

⁷ and that Jacob listened to his father and his mother, and went to Padan-aram.

¹⁰ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks its father, and despises to obey its mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the sons of the eagle shall eat it.

¹⁴ The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab are done, in which he commanded his sons not to drink wine. And to this day they do not drink, but obey their father's command. But I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking; and you did not listen to Me.

³⁸ Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

⁴¹ Now I have been twenty years in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock. And you have changed my wages ten times.

⁸ And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened as they were in the field, Cain rose up against His brother Abel, and killed him. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? ¹⁰ And He said, What have you done? The voice of the blood of your brother cries to Me from the ground. ¹¹ And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. ¹² When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. You shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. ¹³ And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear. ¹⁴ Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today. And I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth. And it will be that anyone who finds me shall kill me. ¹⁵ And Jehovah said to him, If anyone kills Cain, he shall be avenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, so that anyone who found him should not kill him. ¹⁶ And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah. And he lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

⁵ And surely the blood of your lives I will demand. At the hand of every animal I will demand it, and at the hand of man. I will demand the life of man at the hand of every man's brother. ⁶ Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man. For He made man in the image of God.

³⁵ And he said, Your brother came with deceit and took your blessing.

⁶ And your servant had two sons. And the two of them fought in the field, and there was no deliverer between them. And the one struck the other, and killed him. ⁷ And, behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and said, Give up him who struck his brother, and we shall kill him for the life of his brother whom he has slain. And we shall also destroy the heir. And they shall quench my coal which is left, so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the fact of the earth.

²¹ Many purposes are in a man's heart, but the counsel of Jehovah shall stand.

³⁷ Who is this speaking, and it happens when the Lord does not command it?

⁴ And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said to one another, By all means this man is a murderer, whom being saved out of the sea, Justice did not permit to live.

¹³ Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, and we will spend one year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, ¹⁴ who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little while appears, and then disappears. ¹⁵ Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, even we will live, and we will do this or that;

³ And I will cause you to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, among whom I dwell.

³⁴ And Esau was a son of forty years. And he took a wife, Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite; also Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ And they were a grief of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

⁸ And when Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of his father Isaac,

¹ And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 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.

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.

⁴ and he himself went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat under a certain broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die, and said, Enough, now, O Jehovah; take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to the miserable one, and life to him who is bitter in soul; ²¹ who is waiting for death, but it is not; and they dig for it more than for treasures? ²² They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they find the grave.

¹⁶ I despise them; I will not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

¹³ Who will grant that You would hide me in Sheol; You would conceal me until Your anger turns back; that You would set a limit for me and remember me?

³ And now, O Jehovah, please take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

⁹ And God said to Jonah, Is your anger rightly kindled over the plant? And he said, My anger is rightly kindled, even to death.