Nehemiah 5 Cross References - LITV

¹ And there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives, against their brothers the Jews. ² For some were saying, With our sons and our daughters, we are many. let us take up grain for them, so that we may eat and live. ³ Some also were saying, We have mortgaged our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us take up grain because of the famine. ⁴ And some were saying, We have borrowed silver for the king's tax, on our fields, and our vineyards, ⁵ yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers; as their sons, so are our sons; and, behold, we are bringing our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves; yea, there are some of our daughters brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, and our fields and our vineyards are to other men. ⁶ And when I heard their cry, and these words, I was very angry. ⁷ Then my heart ruled within myself, and I contended with the nobles and the magistrates. And I said to them, You are each man lending at interest, from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them. ⁸ And I said to them, According to our ability we have redeemed our brothers, the Jews who were sold to the nations. And will you yet sell your brothers? Or shall they be sold to us? Then they were silent, and did not find a word. ⁹ Also I said, The thing you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies? ¹⁰ Likewise, my brothers and my servants are lending them silver and grain. I beg you, let us leave off this interest. ¹¹ I beg you, even today give back to them their lands, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses; also the hundredth part of their silver, and of the grain, the wine, and the oil, that you have taken from them. ¹² And they said, We will restore, and will ask nothing from them. So we will do as you say. Then I called the priests and took an oath from them that they would do according to this word. ¹³ Also I shook my lap, and I said, So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not do this thing; even may he be shaken out this way and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this thing. ¹⁴ And from the time that I was chosen to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor. ¹⁵ The former governors that had been before me were too heavy on the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God. ¹⁶ Yea, I also was strong in the work of this wall, nor did we buy a field. And all my servants were gathered there to the work. ¹⁷ And at my table were a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from among the nations around us. ¹⁸ And that which was prepared for me daily was one ox, six fat sheep. Also birds were prepared for me; and between ten days, in all of the wine plentifully. And with this I did not seek the bread of the governor, for the bondage was heavy on this people. ¹⁹ Think upon me for good, my God, according to all that I have done for this people.

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.

²⁵ If you lend money to My people, the poor with you, you shall not be as a money-lender to him; you shall not put interest on him. ²⁶ If you indeed take the clothing of your neighbor as a pledge, you shall return it to him by the going of the sun, ²⁷ for that is his only covering, that is his covering for his skin. In what shall he lie down? And it shall be, when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.

³⁵ And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall help him. He shall live with you as an alien and a tenant. ³⁶ You shall take no interest from him, or increase; and you shall fear your God; and the life of your brother is with you. ³⁷ You shall not give silver to him with interest, and you shall not give your food for increase.

⁷ If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother. ⁸ But you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him enough for his need in that which he lacks. ⁹ Beware that there is no evil thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release draws near; and your eye be evil against your needy brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to Jehovah against you and it be sin to you. ¹⁰ You shall surely give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because Jehovah your God will bless you for this thing, in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to. ¹¹ For the poor will never cease from the midst of the land. On account of this I command you, saying, You shall surely open your hand to your poor and needy brother in your land.

³⁸ If my land cries out against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire;

²⁸ to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him. For He hears the cry of the afflicted.

⁷ For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is His delightful plant. And He waited for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

⁷ and will God not at all execute the avenging of His elect, those crying to Him day and night, also having been long-suffering over them?

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?

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!

⁴ Behold, the wages of the workmen who have reaped your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of the ones who have reaped have entered "into the ears of the Lord of Hosts." Isa. 5:9

⁵⁷ And all the earth came to Egypt to buy, to Joseph. For the famine was strong in all the earth.

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.

⁸ And Judah said to his father Israel, Send the youth with me, and let us rise up and go, and we may live and not die, both we, and you, and our little ones.

³ Behold! Children are an inheritance of Jehovah; the fruit of the womb is His reward. ⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young. ⁵ Blessed is the man who has filled his quiver with them; they shall not be ashamed, for they shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

² For you shall surely eat the labor of your hands; you shall be happy, and all is good to you. ³ Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your sons shall be like olive plants around your table. ⁴ Behold! So shall the man be blessed who fears Jehovah.

² If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed it, because you are not setting it on your heart.

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 Joseph said, Give your livestock, and I will give to you for your livestock, if silver has failed. ¹⁷ And they brought in their livestock to Joseph. And Joseph gave bread to them for the horses, and for the livestock of the flocks, for the livestock of the herds, and for the asses. And he satisfied them with bread in that year for all their livestock ¹⁸ And that year ended, and they came in to him in the second year and said to him, We cannot hide from my lord that the silver and the livestock of the animals have failed, going to my lord. Nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread; and let us, we and our land, become slaves to Pharaoh. And give seed so that we may live and not die, and the land not be desolate. ²⁰ And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, because each one in Egypt sold his field, because this famine was severe on them; and the land became Pharaoh's. ²¹ And as for the people, he caused them to pass over into the cities, and from the end of the border of Egypt to its other end. ²² Only he did not buy the land of the priests; for Pharaoh had appointed a portion for the priests, and they usually ate their appointed portion which Pharaoh gave to them. For this reason they did not sell their land. ²³ And Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you and your land today. Behold! Here is seed for you; and you sow the land. ²⁴ And it shall be, as you gather you shall give a fifth part to Pharaoh; and four parts shall be yours, for the seed of the field and for your food, and for those in your houses, and for food for your little ones. ²⁵ And they said, You have saved our lives; let us find favor in the eyes of my lord, and we will become slaves to Pharaoh.

³⁵ And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall help him. He shall live with you as an alien and a tenant. ³⁶ You shall take no interest from him, or increase; and you shall fear your God; and the life of your brother is with you. ³⁷ You shall not give silver to him with interest, and you shall not give your food for increase. ³⁸ I am Jehovah who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God. ³⁹ And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you shall not lay on him the service of a slave.

⁷ If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother.

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, In what have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering! ⁹ You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it. ¹⁰ Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of hosts, whether I will not open the windows of the heavens for you and pour out a blessing until there is no sufficiency. ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for you, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground against you; nor shall your vine miscarry against you in the field, says Jehovah of hosts.

⁴⁷ Because you did not serve Jehovah your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ and you shall serve your enemies whom Jehovah shall send on you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things . And He shall put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

¹⁰ And they did not expel the Canaanite who lived in Gezer. And the Canaanite lives in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and is serving under tribute.

²¹ their sons left behind them in the land, whom the sons of Israel had not been able to exterminate, Solomon even caused to go on them a burden of forced labor to this day.

¹³ Now let it be known to the king that if this city is rebuilt, and the walls completed, they will not give tax, tribute, and forced labor, and it will cause the king's revenue to suffer.

²⁰ There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all Beyond the River. And tax, tribute, and forced labor were paid to them.

²⁴ Also, we notify you that in regard to any of the priests and the Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple-slaves, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, taxes, or forced labor on them.

³⁷ And it yields much increase to the kings whom You have set over us because of our sinning. And they rule over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress.

¹⁴ And Laban said to him, Truly you are my bone and my flesh. And he lived with him a month of days.

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.

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.

³⁹ And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you shall not lay on him the service of a slave. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you as a hireling, as a tenant he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee; ⁴¹ then he shall go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family; he shall even return to the possession of his father. ⁴² For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold with the sale of a slave. ⁴³ You shall not rule over him with severity, and you shall fear your God.

¹ And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets had cried to Elisha, saying, My husband, your servant, is dead. And you know that your servant has seen Jehovah. And the lender has come to take my two children to himself for slaves.

⁷ Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, that you should bring the wandering poor home? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your flesh?

²⁵ But he not having any to pay, the lord commanded him to be sold, also his wife and children, and all things, as much as he had, even to pay back.

⁵ Hear, my beloved brothers, did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to the ones loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich ones oppress you, and they drag you to judgment seats?

⁸ And all these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow to me, saying, Go out, you and all the people at your feet. And afterward I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

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.

⁸ And it grieved me very much. And I threw all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room.

²⁵ And I contended with them, and put a curse on them, and struck some of them, and I plucked their hair. And I made them swear by the name of God, saying, You shall not give your daughter to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.

⁵ And having looked around on them with anger, being greatly grieved over the hardness of their heart, He said to the man, Stretch out your hand! And he stretched out, and his hand was restored sound as the other.

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

²⁵ If you lend money to My people, the poor with you, you shall not be as a money-lender to him; you shall not put interest on him.

¹⁵ You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment; you shall not respect the person of the poor, nor favor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.

³⁶ You shall take no interest from him, or increase; and you shall fear your God; and the life of your brother is with you.

² And this is the manner of the release: Everyone who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because a release has been proclaimed for Jehovah. ³ You may exact it from a foreigner, but your hand shall release whatever is yours with your brother,

¹⁹ You shall not lend at interest to your brother; interest of silver, interest of food, interest of anything loaned at interest. ²⁰ You may lend to a stranger at interest, but you shall not lend at interest to your brother, so that Jehovah your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go to possess it.

¹⁰ When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. ¹¹ You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the security outside to you. ¹² And if the man is poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. ¹³ You shall certainly give back to him the pledge at sundown; and he shall lie down in his own clothing, and shall bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before Jehovah your God.

⁶ and said to the judges, Watch what you are doing, for you shall not judge for man, but for Jehovah, and He is with you in the matter of judgment; ⁷ and now, let the fear of Jehovah be upon you; watch and act, for there is no perverseness with Jehovah our God, nor lifting up of faces, nor taking of a bribe.

⁹ And a prophet of Jehovah was there, Oded his name; and he went out before the army that had come in to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, in the fury of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, against Judah, He has given them into your hand, and you have slain among them in rage. It has touched to the heavens. ¹⁰ And now you are planning to tread down the sons of Judah and Jerusalem for male slaves, and for girl slaves to yourselves; but are not with you causes of guilt, solely yours, before Jehovah your God? ¹¹ And now, hear me, and return the captives you have seized from your brothers, for the heat of the anger of Jehovah is on you. ¹² And men of the leaders of the Ephraimites: Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah, Meshillemoth's son, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming in from the army. ¹³ And they said to them, You shall not bring the captives here, for guilt against Jehovah is on us; you are planning to add to our sin and to our guilt, for plenty of guilt is ours, and the glow of anger on Israel.

⁴ Tremble and do not sin. Speak within your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah.

¹ A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, who shall dwell in Your tabernacle? Who shall live in Your holy mountain?

⁵ He has not given his silver at interest; nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent; he who does these things shall not be shaken forever.

⁸ My heart said to You, Seek my face; Your face, O Jehovah, I will seek.

¹ A Psalm of Asaph God stands in the assembly of God; He judges in the midst of the gods. ² Until when will you judge unjustly, and lift up the faces of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴ Deliver the poor and needy; save out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵ Better is revealed reproof than secret love.

¹² In you they have taken bribes in order to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have gained by extortion of your neighbor. And you have forgotten Me, declares the Lord Jehovah.

⁹ So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel! Turn away violence and oppression, and do justice and righteousness. Lift away your acts of violence from My people, declares the Lord Jehovah.

¹⁷ But if he fails to hear them, tell it to the church. And if he also fails to hear the church, let him be to you as the nations and the tax collector.

¹⁶ So as we now know no one according to flesh, but even if we have known Christ according to flesh, yet now we no longer know Him so .

¹¹ But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

²⁰ The ones sinning before all, rebuke, that the rest also may have fear.

¹⁵ Speak these things and exhort and convict with all authority. Let no one despise you.

¹⁶ And he that steals a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

⁴⁷ And if lifts up a hand of an alien or a tenant with you, and your brother grows poor with him, and he sells himself to an alien, a tenant with you, or to the offshoot of the family of an alien, ⁴⁸ after he has been sold, there is a redemption to him; one of his brothers may redeem him, ⁴⁹ or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, may redeem him, or any of his fleshly relations of his family may redeem him. Or, if his own hand has reached out to gain, then he may be redeemed.

⁷ If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and has dealt with him as a slave, and sold him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

¹⁰ the leaders' voice was hidden; yea, their tongue clung to the roof of their mouth.

¹⁵ They are broken; they do not reply again; words have departed from them.

¹² And he said to him, Friend, how did you come in here, not having a wedding garment? But he was speechless.

¹⁵ And to one indeed he gave five talents, and to another, two, and to another, one, to each according to his ability. And he went abroad at once.

²⁹ For to each who has, more will be given, and he will abound. But from him who does not have, even that which he has will be taken from him.

¹⁹ But we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those within the Law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.

¹⁵ But if your brother is grieved because of your food, you no longer walk according to love. Do not by your food destroy that one for whom Christ died.

¹¹ And on your knowledge the weak brother will fall, he for whom Christ died. ¹² For if the eagerness is present, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

¹⁰ So then, as we have time, let us work good toward all, and especially toward the household of the faith.

⁷ And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land. 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.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

¹⁸ And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this and live. I fear God.

²⁴ No my sons, for the report which I am hearing is not good, causing the people of Jehovah to transgress.

¹⁴ Only, because you have made the enemies of Jehovah to scorn derisively by this thing, also the son who shall be born to you shall surely die.

⁴ O our God, hear. For we are despised. And turn their curse on their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity.

¹⁵ The former governors that had been before me were too heavy on the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God.

²⁹ A violent man lures his neighbor, and causes him to go in a way that is not good.

²⁶ And it is not good to punish the just, to strike leaders for uprightness.

⁵ To lift up the face of the wicked is not good, nor to turn aside the righteous in judgment.

² Also, without knowledge the soul is not good, and he who hurries with his feet sins.

²³ These also are for the wise: to respect persons in judgment is not good.

²⁰ And when they entered into the nations, there where they went, they even profaned My holy name, by saying to them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they are gone out of His land.

³¹ Then, indeed, the churches throughout all Judea, and Galilee, and Samaria, had peace, having been built up and having gone on in the fear of the Lord. And they were increased in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

²⁴ For the name of God is blasphemed among the nations through you, even as it has been written: Isa. 52:5

¹⁴ Therefore, I desire the young women to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, giving no occasion to the adversary on account of reproach.

⁵ discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed,

¹² having your behavior good among the nations, in that which they speak against you as evildoers; by observing your good works, they may glorify God in a day of visitation.

⁷ Then my heart ruled within myself, and I contended with the nobles and the magistrates. And I said to them, You are each man lending at interest, from his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

⁸ He has not loaned on interest, and he has not taken increase, he has kept his hand from injustice, having done true justice between man and man.

¹³ he has loaned on interest and has taken increase; shall he also live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him.

¹ Woe to those plotting wickedness and preparing evil on their beds! In the light of the morning they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

¹³ And he said to them, Continue to do no more than that commanded to you. ¹⁴ And also ones serving as soldiers asked him, saying, And we, what shall we do? And he said to them, Do not shake violently anyone nor accuse falsely, and be satisfied with your pay.

¹² If others have a share of the authority over you, should not rather we? But we did not use this authority, but we endured all things, so that we might not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who have labored eat of the holy things of the temple? Those attending on the altar partake with the altar. ¹⁴ So also the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel. ¹⁵ But I have not used one of these. And I do not write these things that it be so with me. For it is good to me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying. ¹⁶ For if I announce the gospel, no glory is to me; for necessity is laid on me, and it is woe to me if I do not announce the gospel. ¹⁷ For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship. ¹⁸ What then is my reward? That announcing the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ free, so as not to use fully my authority in the gospel.

¹¹ Then knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and we have been manifest to God; and I also hope to have been manifest in your consciences.

²⁰ Then on behalf of Christ, we are ambassadors, as God is exhorting through us, we beseech on behalf of Christ, Be reconciled to God.

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

⁸ Because of this, having much boldness in Christ to enjoin you to do what is becoming, ⁹ rather because of love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

⁴ then it shall be, when he sins and is guilty, he shall return what he got by robbery, that which he robbed, or the extorted thing which he extorted, or the deposit which had been deposited with him, or the lost thing which he had found; ⁵ or all that about which he swore falsely; he shall even repay it in its principal, and the fifth part he shall add to it; to whomever it belongs. He shall give it on the day of his guilt offering.

³ Behold, I am here! Testify against me before Jehovah and before His anointed: Whose ox have I taken, and whose ass have I taken, and whom have I offended? Whom have I abused, and from whose hand have I taken a bribe that I might hide my eyes with it; and I will give back to you.

⁶ And he shall repay fourfold for the ewe lamb, because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity.

³ Some also were saying, We have mortgaged our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us take up grain because of the famine. ⁴ And some were saying, We have borrowed silver for the king's tax, on our fields, and our vineyards,

⁶ Is this not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to let the oppressed ones go free; even that you pull off every yoke?

⁸ Then bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as father. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.

² And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and every man of Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, from small to great; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah. ³ And the king stood by the pillar, and made the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to lift up the words of this covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

²² If a man shall sin against his neighbor, and he shall lift up an oath on him, to cause him to swear, and he shall come and swear before Your altar in this house, ²³ You shall hear from Heaven, and shall act, and shall judge Your servants, to repay the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and to justify the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

¹³ And everyone who did not seek after Jehovah the God of Israel was put to death, from the small to the great, from man and to woman. ¹⁴ And they swore to Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with rams' horns.

¹⁴ And the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the leaders and all the congregation. ¹⁵ And the men who had been called by name rose and took the captives, and they clothed all the naked ones from the spoil; yea, they clothed them and shod them, and made them eat and drink, and anointed them, and led them out on asses, even every feeble one, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palms, near their brothers, and returned to Samaria.

⁵ Then Ezra rose up and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel to swear that they would do according to this word. And they swore.

¹² Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice Right! According to your word it is on us to do.

²⁹ were holding fast to their brothers, their honored ones; and were entering into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments and His statutes.

³¹ And if the people of the land should bring goods or any food to sell on the Sabbath, we would not take from them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day. And they would forego the seventh year, and the interest of every hand.

⁸ The word that was to Jeremiah from Jehovah after king Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them, ⁹ that each man should release his male slave, and each man his female slave, if a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, to go free, that not any should enslave a Jew, a man, his brother among them. ¹⁰ And all the rulers obeyed, and all the people who had entered into the covenant allowed them to go free, each man his male slave, and each man his female slave; so that not any should enslave among them any more; and they obeyed and let them go.

²¹ Jesus said to him, If you desire to be perfect, go sell your property and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven; and come, follow Me. ²² But hearing the word, being grieved, the young man went away, for he had many possessions.

⁶³ But Jesus kept silent. And answering, the high priest said to Him, I adjure you by the living God that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.

⁸ But standing, Zaccheus said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor. And if in anything I accused anyone falsely, I restore it fourfold.

²² And these waters which cause the curse shall go into your bowels to cause the belly to swell, and the thigh to fall. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

¹⁴ And the Levites shall answer, and shall say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice: ¹⁵ Cursed is the man who makes a carved and molten image an abomination to Jehovah, the work of a craftsman's hands, and who sets it up in a secret place! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen! ¹⁶ Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother! And all the people shall say, Amen! ¹⁷ Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark! And all the people shall say, Amen! ¹⁸ Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way! And All the people shall say, Amen! ¹⁹ Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the alien, the fatherless, and widow! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²⁰ Cursed is he who lies with his father's wife, because he uncovers his father's skirt! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²¹ Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²² Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²³ Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²⁴ Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor secretly! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²⁵ Cursed is he who takes a bribe to strike a life, to shed innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen! ²⁶ Cursed is he who does not rise to all the words of this law, to do them! And all the people shall say, Amen!

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.

²⁹ And at that time it happened that Jeroboam had gone out from Jerusalem, and Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him in the way. And he covered himself with a new garment, and both of them were by themselves in a field. ³⁰ And Ahijah laid hold on the new garment on him and tore it into twelve pieces. ³¹ And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces for yourself. For so says Jehovah, God of Israel, Behold, I am tearing the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and giving to you the ten tribes.

³ And the king stood by the pillar, and made the covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep His commandments, and His testimonies, and His statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to lift up the words of this covenant that were written in this Book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

³⁶ Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And all the people said, Amen, and gave praise to Jehovah.

⁶ And Ezra blessed Jehovah, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, lifting up their hands. And they bowed and worshiped to Jehovah with their noses to the ground.

¹⁴ Offer thanksgiving to God; and pay your vows to the Most High.

¹¹ Vow and pay to Jehovah your God; let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn and I rise to it, to keep Your righteous judgments.

⁵ It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not fulfill it.

³ And he said to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole earth. For from now on everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it; and everyone who swears from now on shall be cut off according to it. ⁴ And I will bring it forth, says Jehovah of hosts. And it shall go into the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall devour it, and its timber, and its stones.

¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you, nor will hear your words, having gone out of that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet.

⁵¹ But these shaking off the dust of their feet on them, they came into Iconium.

⁶ But they having resisted, and blaspheming, having shaken his garments, he said to them, Your blood be on your head. I am pure from it; from now on I will go to the nations.

¹³ Now let it be known to the king that if this city is rebuilt, and the walls completed, they will not give tax, tribute, and forced labor, and it will cause the king's revenue to suffer. ¹⁴ Now because we have partaken of the palace salt, and it is not right for us to see the king's dishonor, therefore we have sent and notified the king,

¹ And it happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him. And I took the wine and gave to the king. And I had never been sad to his face.

⁶ But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem. For in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king of Babylon, I came to the king. And after some days I asked leave from the king.

⁶ For on this account you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God, always giving attention to this very thing. ⁷ Then give to all their dues: to the one due tax, the tax; to the one due tribute, the tribute; to the one due fear, the fear; to the one due honor, the honor.

⁴ Have we not authority to eat and to drink? ⁵ Have we not authority to lead about a sister, a wife, as the rest of the apostles also, and Cephas, and the Lord's brothers do ? ⁶ Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no authority to quit work? ⁷ Who serves as a soldier at his own wages at any time? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock? ⁸ Do I speak these things according to man, or does not the Law say these things also? ⁹ For it has been written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox treading out grain." Deut. 25:4 Is it that it matters to God as to oxen? ¹⁰ Or does He say it altogether because of us? It is written because of us, so that the one plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one threshing in hope to partake of hope. ¹¹ If we have sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great thing if we shall reap of your fleshly things? ¹² If others have a share of the authority over you, should not rather we? But we did not use this authority, but we endured all things, so that we might not give a hindrance to the gospel of Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who have labored eat of the holy things of the temple? Those attending on the altar partake with the altar. ¹⁴ So also the Lord ordained those announcing the gospel to live from the gospel. ¹⁵ But I have not used one of these. And I do not write these things that it be so with me. For it is good to me rather to die than that anyone nullify my glorying.

¹⁸ What then is my reward? That announcing the gospel I may make the gospel of Christ free, so as not to use fully my authority in the gospel.

⁸ nor did we eat bread from anyone as a gift, but by labor and toil, working night and day in order not to burden anyone of you. ⁹ Not that we do not have authority, but that we give ourselves as an example to you, for you to act like us.

¹⁵ Yea, before they made the fat to smoke, then the priest's servant came in. And he said to the man who was sacrificing, Give meat to roast for the priest; and he will not take boiled meat from you, but raw. ¹⁶ And if the man said to him, Let the fat be made to smoke as the day, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give now. And if not, I will take it by force. ¹⁷ And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for the men had despised the offering of Jehovah.

¹⁵ And he will tithe your seed and your vineyards, and will give them to his eunuchs and to his servants.

⁹ Also I said, The thing you do is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

²³ for trouble from God is a terror to me, and I could not do the thing because of His majesty.

¹ Praise Jehovah! Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, delighting greatly in His commands.

¹¹ Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, those who hope in His mercy.

⁶ Iniquity is covered by mercy and truth, and in the fear of Jehovah, men turn aside from evil.

¹² To a ruler who listens to lying words, all his ministers are wicked.

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this applies to every man. ¹⁴ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

¹⁰ Who among you fears Jehovah, obeying the voice of His servant, who walks in darkness, and no light is in him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and lean on his God.

⁴⁷ And if you only greet your brothers, what exceptional thing do you do? Do not the tax-collectors do so?

² saying, A certain judge was in a certain city, not fearing God and not respecting man. ³ And a widow was in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me from my adversary. ⁴ And for a time he would not. But after these things he said to himself, Even if I do not fear God, and do not respect man,

⁹ And being present with you and lacking, I was not a burden to anyone. The brothers coming from Macedonia completely made up for my lack. And in every way I kept myself without burden to you, and I will keep myself .

¹³ For what is it in which you were less than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong.

¹⁵ And those in the good ground, these are the ones who in a right and good heart, hearing the Word, they hold it and bear fruit in patience.

³³ I have desired the silver, or gold, or clothing of no one. ³⁴ But you yourselves know that these hands ministered to my needs, and to those who were with me. ³⁵ I showed you all things, that working in this way we ought to help those being weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

⁷ everlasting life truly to those who with patience in good work are seeking glory and honor and incorruptibility;

⁵⁸ So that, my beloved brothers, you be firm, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord always, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

¹⁶ But let it be so, I did not burden you; but being crafty, I caught you with bait. ¹⁷ By any whom I have sent to you, did I overreach you by him? ¹⁸ I begged Titus and sent the brother with him . Did Titus overreach you? Did we not walk in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same steps?

⁹ But we should not weaken in doing good, for in due time we shall reap, if we do not faint.

²⁰ For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things about you. ²¹ For all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus.

⁵ For neither were we then found with words of flattery, even as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness (God is witness), ⁶ nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, having been able to be so with the weight of glory as apostles of Christ.

⁷ And David said to him, Do not be afraid, for I will certainly show kindness to you because of your father Jonathan. And I will give back to you all the land of your father Saul. And you shall eat bread at my table continually.

¹³ And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate continually at the table of the king. And he was lame in both his feet.

¹⁹ And now send, gather all Israel to me, to Mount Carmel and four hundred and fifty of the prophets of Baal, and four hundred of the prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel.

⁸ But the noble one devises noble things; and he shall rise by noble things.

¹³ imparting to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality.

⁹ Be hospitable to one another without murmurings, ¹⁰ each one as he received a gift, ministering it to yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

²² And Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, ²³ ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides deer and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.

¹⁴ And from the time that I was chosen to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the thirty second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor. ¹⁵ The former governors that had been before me were too heavy on the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God.

²¹ The wicked borrows and never repays, but the righteous is gracious and giving.

²⁶ All the day long he is gracious and lends, and his seed is for a blessing.

¹⁴ But make mention of me along with yourself, when it is well with you; and please do kindness with me and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

¹⁴ Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds which I have done for the house of my God, and in its keeping.

²² And I commanded the Levites that they should be cleansing themselves, and they should come guarding the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. O my God, remember me for this also and spare me according to the greatness of Your mercy.

³¹ and for the wood offering, at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good!

²³ For I was upright with Him, and kept myself from my guilt. ²⁴ And Jehovah has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes. ²⁵ With the merciful, You reveal Yourself as merciful; with an upright man, You reveal yourself as upright;

⁶ Remember, O Jehovah, Your compassions and Your mercies; for they are from eternity. ⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my transgressions. According to Your mercy, remember me, for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

⁴ Remember me, Jehovah, with the favor of Your people; O visit me with Your salvation,

¹¹ For I know the purposes which I am planning for you, says Jehovah; purposes of peace, and not for evil; to give you a future and a hope.

⁴² And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to drink to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, In no way will he lose his reward.

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, the blessed of My Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I hungered, and you gave Me food to eat; I thirsted, and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger, and you took Me in; ³⁶ naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer, saying, Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You; or thirsting, and gave You drink? ³⁸ And when did we see You a stranger, and took You in; or naked, and clothed You ? ³⁹ And when did we see You sick, or in prison, and came to You? 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.

⁴¹ For whoever gives you a cup of cold water to drink in My name, because you are of Christ, truly I say to you, In no way he will lose his reward.