Joshua 24 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; and he called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and they presented themselves before God. ² And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, On the other side of the river did your fathers dwell in old time, even Terach, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I led him throughout all the land of Canaan; and I multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. ⁴ And I gave unto Isaac, Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. ⁵ And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt in the manner as I have done among them; and after that I brought you out. ⁶ And I brought your fathers out of Egypt; and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red Sea. ⁷ And they cried unto the Lord, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I had done on Egypt; and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days. ⁸ And I brought you into the land of the Emorites, that dwelt on the other side of the Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land; and I destroyed them from before you. ⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel; and he sent and called Bil’am the son of Beor to curse you; ¹⁰ And I would not hearken unto Bil’am; but he had to bless you instead: and I delivered you out of his hand. ¹¹ And ye passed over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho; and then fought the men of Jericho against you, the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hand. ¹² And I sent before you the hornet which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Emorites: not with thy sword, and not with thy bow. ¹³ And I gave you a land for which ye had not toiled, and cities which ye had not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. ¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ¹⁵ And if it be displeasing in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. ¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; ¹⁷ For the Lord our God it is that hath brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who hath done those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us upon all the way whereon we have gone, and among all the people through the midst of whom we have passed: ¹⁸ And the Lord hath driven out all the nations, and the Emorites who dwelt in the land, from before us; therefore also will we serve the Lord; for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Joshua said unto the people, Ye will not be able to serve the Lord; for he is a holy God; he is a watchful God; he will not have any indulgence for your transgressions and for your sins; ²⁰ If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then will he again do ye evil, and consume ye, after that he hath done you good. ²¹ And the people said unto Joshua, No; nevertheless the Lord will we serve. ²² And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye yourselves have chosen for you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ And now put away the strange gods which are in the midst of you, and incline your heart unto the Lord the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. ²⁵ And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. ²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be among us as a witness; for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore as a witness against you, that ye may not deny your God. ²⁸ And Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. ²⁹ And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, one hundred and ten years old. ³⁰ And they buried him on the border of his inheritance at Timnath-serach, which is on the mountain of Ephraim, on the north side of mount Ga’ash. ³¹ And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived many days after Joshua, and who had known all the deeds of the Lord, that he had done for Israel. ³² And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Chamor the father of Shechem for one hundred kessitah: and it remained the inheritance of the children of Joseph. ³³ And Elazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him on the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the mountain of Ephraim.

²⁶ And Terach lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nachor, and Haran.

¹ Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and out of thy birthplace, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee. ² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: ³ And I will bless those that bless thee, and him that curseth thee, will I curse; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. ⁴ So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him, and Lot went with him; and Abram was seventy and five years old at his departure out of Charan.

⁶ And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the plain of Moreh; and the Canaanite was then in the land.

⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward the heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to count them; and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

¹ And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be thou perfect.

¹⁹ For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him.

⁵ Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother; in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this. ⁶ And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I also well know that thou hast done this in the integrity of thy heart; therefore did I also withhold thee from sinning against me; for this cause I suffered thee not to touch her.

² And Sarah conceived, and bore unto Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him. ³ And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

²⁴ And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. ²⁵ And the first came out red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And after that came his brother out, his hand holding on to Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

¹⁸ And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. ¹⁹ And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but Luz was the name of that city in former times. ²⁰ And Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me on this way which I am going, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, ²¹ And I come again in peace to my father’s house: then shall the Lord be my God; ²² And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house; and of all that thou wilt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

¹⁹ And Laban was gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the images that were her father’s.

³⁰ And now, thou wouldst needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father’s house; yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods.

³² With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live; before our brethren seek out thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee; but Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

⁴⁴ And now, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap; and they ate there upon the heap. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Yegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day; therefore called he its name Galed; ⁴⁹ And Mitzpah; for he said, The Lord shall watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from the other; ⁵⁰ If thou shouldst afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldst take other wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us: see, God is witness between me and thee. ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast up between me and thee; ⁵² Witness be this heap and witness be this pillar, that I will not pass by this heap, and that thou shalt not pass unto me by this heap and this pillar, for evil. ⁵³ The God of Abraham and the God of Nachor shall judge between us, the God of their father; but Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

³ And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

¹⁸ And Jacob came in good health to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and he encamped before the city. ¹⁹ And he bought the parcel of the field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kessitah.

¹⁹ And he bought the parcel of the field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Chamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kessitah.

² Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments.

² Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments. ³ And let us arise, and go up to Beth-el: and I will make there an altar unto the God who answered me on the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went. ⁴ And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

⁴ And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

⁸ And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and he called its named Allon-bachuth.

⁸ Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

¹ And Israel commenced his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. ² And God spoke unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. ³ And he said, I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for a great nation will I make of thee there: ⁴ I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thy eyes. ⁵ And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. ⁶ And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt; Jacob, and all his seed with him: ⁷ His sons, and his son’s sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed he brought with him into Egypt.

²² Moreover I have given unto thee one portion above thy brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Emorite with my sword and with my bow.

²² And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house; and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

²⁵ And Joseph caused the children of Israel to swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and then shall ye carry up my bones from here. ²⁶ So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

¹⁰ And now then go, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou shalt bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

¹² Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and I will teach thee what thou shalt speak. ¹³ And he said, Pardon, O Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wouldst send. ¹⁴ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not Aaron, thy brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; and also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

²³ And Aaron took himself Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nachshon, for wife; and she bore unto him Nadab, and Abihu, Elazar, and Ithamar.

²⁵ And Elazar the son of Aaron took himself one of the daughters of Putiel for wife; and she bore unto him Phinehas: these are the heads of the divisions of the Levites according to their families.

¹ And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. ² Thou shalt speak all that I shall command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he send away the children of Israel out of his land. ³ And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ And Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth my armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by means of great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth my hand over Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from the midst of them. ⁶ And Moses and Aaron did so; as the Lord commanded them, so did they. ⁷ And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh. ⁸ And the Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ⁹ If Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for yourselves: then shalt thou say unto Aaron, Take thy staff and cast it down before Pharaoh; it shall become a serpent. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent. ¹¹ Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did with their secret arts in like manner. ¹² And they cast down every man his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staves.

² And in order that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, the wonders which I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have shown among them; and ye shall know now that I am the Lord.

³⁷ And the children of Israel journeyed from Ra’meses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

⁵¹ And it came to pass on the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for he had caused the children of Israel to swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall then carry up my bones away hence with you.

¹ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, ² Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hachiroth, between Migdol and the sea; in front of Baal-zephon; opposite to this shall ye encamp by the sea. ³ And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in. ⁴ And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, that he shall follow after them; and I will get myself honor on Pharaoh, and on all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord; and they did so. ⁵ And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed with respect to the people, and they said, What is this which we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us? ⁶ And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him. ⁷ And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. ⁸ And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with a high hand. ⁹ And the Egyptians pursued after them, and they overtook them encamping by the sea, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, beside Pi-hachiroth, before Baal-zephon. ¹⁰ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were greatly afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

¹⁰ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they were greatly afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord. ¹¹ And they said unto Moses, Is it because there were no graves in Egypt, that thou hast taken us away to die in the wilderness? what is this which thou hast done to us, to bring us forth out of Egypt? ¹² Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? for it is better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. ¹³ And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will do for you today; for as ye have seen the Egyptians today, ye shall not see them again any more for ever. ¹⁴ The Lord will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace. ¹⁵ And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward;

²⁰ And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to the first, but it gave light by night to these: and the one came not near unto the other all the night.

²⁷ And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned, when the morning appeared, to its strength; while the Egyptians were fleeing against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. ²⁸ And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen with all the host of Pharaoh that came after them into the sea: there remained of them not even one.

³¹ And Israel saw that great power which the Lord had shown on the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and then believed in the Lord, and in Moses his servant.

² My strength and song is the Lord, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will declare his praise, the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

²⁵ And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which he cast into the waters, and the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.

²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and placed them as heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. ²⁶ And they judged the people at all times; any difficult cause they brought unto Moses, but every small cause they judged themselves.

⁴ Ye have yourselves seen what I have done unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.

⁸ And all the people answered unanimously, and said, all that the Lord hath spoken will we do; and Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

³ Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴ Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

²³ Ye shall not make any thing with me; gods of silver, and gods of gold ye shall not make unto yourselves.

²¹ Beware of him, and obey his voice, disobey him not; for he will not pardon your transgression, because my name is in him.

²³ For my angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Emorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off. ²⁴ Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their deeds; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and completely break down their statuary images.

²⁸ And I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

³² Thou shalt not make a covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me; for thou mightest be led to serve their gods, and this would surely be a snare unto thee.

³ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the laws of justice; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, all the words which the Lord hath spoken will we do. ⁴ And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord, and he rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

⁷ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said, all that the Lord hath spoken will we do and obey.

⁷ And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said, all that the Lord hath spoken will we do and obey. ⁸ And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

⁷ Keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

¹⁴ For thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord whose name is Watchful, is a watchful God. ¹⁵ Make thou then no covenant with the inhabitants of the land; lest that, if they go astray after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, any one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

³ Then said Moses unto Aaron, This is what the Lord hath spoken, saying, On those who are near unto me will I be sanctified, and before all the people will I be glorified: and Aaron held his peace.

⁷ So that they shall offer no more their sacrifices unto evil spirits, after which they have gone astray: a statute for ever shall this be unto them throughout their generations.

² Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I the Eternal your God am holy.

²⁶ And ye shall be holy unto me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have separated you from the nations, that ye should be mine.

³² And the chief over the princes of the Levites was Elazar the son of Aaron the priest, having the oversight of those that kept the charge of the sanctuary.

³³ And your children shall wander about in the wilderness forty years, and bear your backslidings, until your carcasses be spent in the wilderness. ³⁴ After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, forty days, yea, each one day for a year, shall ye bear for your iniquities, forty years; and ye shall experience my withdrawal of protection.

²⁶ And cause Aaron to take off his garments, and clothe therewith Elazar his son; and Aaron shall be gathered in, and he shall die there. ²⁷ And Moses did as the Lord had commanded; and they went up to mount Hor before the eyes of all the congregation. ²⁸ And Moses caused Aaron to take off his garments, and he clothed therewith Elazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mount; and Moses and Elazar then came down from the mount.

²¹ And Israel sent messengers unto Sichon the king of the Emorites, saying, ²² Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well: by the king’s highway will we go along, until we have passed thy border. ²³ But Sichon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; and Sichon assembled all his people together; and went out against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Yahaz, and fought against Israel. ²⁴ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Yabbok, even unto the children of ‘Ammon; for the border of the children of ‘Ammon was strong. ²⁵ And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Emorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages thereof. ²⁶ For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Emorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, up to the Arnon. ²⁷ Therefore said the poets, Come into Cheshbon, let the city of Sichon be built and established. ²⁸ For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it hath consumed ‘Ar-Moab, the men of the high places of the Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon. ³⁰ We have thrown them down; lost is Cheshbon even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste all up to Nophach, which reacheth unto Medeba. ³¹ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Emorites. ³² And Moses sent to spy out Ya’zer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there. ³³ And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and ‘Og, the king of Bashan, went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. ³⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon. ³⁵ And they smote him and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left unto him that escaped; and they took possession of his land.

² And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Emorites.

⁵ And he sent messengers unto Bil’am the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to have him called; saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt; behold, it covereth the surface of the earth, and it is abiding opposite to me: ⁶ And now do but come, curse me this people; for it is too mighty for me; peradventure I may be able to smite it, that I may drive it out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. ⁷ And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Bil’am, and spoke unto him the words of Balak. ⁸ And he said unto them, Remain you here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the Lord may speak unto me; and the princes of Moab abode with Bil’am. ⁹ And God came unto Bil’am, and said, Who are these men with thee? ¹⁰ And Bil’am said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, ¹¹ Behold, there is the people that is come out of Egypt, and covereth the face of the earth: now come, denounce it for me; peradventure I shall be able to fight against it, and drive it away.

¹¹ Behold, there is the people that is come out of Egypt, and covereth the face of the earth: now come, denounce it for me; peradventure I shall be able to fight against it, and drive it away. ¹² And God said unto Bil’am, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people; for it is blessed.

¹² And God said unto Bil’am, Thou shalt not go with them: thou shalt not curse the people; for it is blessed. ¹³ And Bil’am rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Go back to your land; for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you. ¹⁴ And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went unto Balak, and said, Bil’am refuseth to come with us. ¹⁵ And Balak sent yet again princes, more in number, and more honorable than those. ¹⁶ And they came to Bil’am, and said to him, Thus hath said Balak the son of Zippor, Do not suffer thyself, I pray thee, to be prevented from coming unto me; ¹⁷ For I will honor thee greatly, and whatsoever thou mayest say unto me will I do: and only come, I pray thee, denounce me this people. ¹⁸ And Bil’am answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord my God, to do a small or a great thing.

¹⁸ And Bil’am answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the order of the Lord my God, to do a small or a great thing. ¹⁹ And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me.

¹⁹ And now, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will farther speak with me. ²⁰ And God came unto Bil’am at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do.

²⁰ And God came unto Bil’am at night, and said unto him, If to call thee the men have come, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I shall speak unto thee, that shalt thou do. ²¹ And Bil’am rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

³⁵ And the angel of the Lord said unto Bil’am, Go with the men; however, only the word which I will speak unto thee, that shalt thou speak: and Bil’am went with the princes of Balak.

³ And Bil’am said unto Balak, Place thyself by thy burnt-offering; and I will go, peradventure the Lord will come to meet me, and whatsoever he may show me I will tell thee: and he went thoughtfully alone. ⁴ And God met Bil’am: and he said unto him, The seven altars have I made ready, and I have offered a bullock and a ram upon every altar. ⁵ And the Lord put a word in Bil’am’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. ⁶ And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab. ⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram did Balak send for me, the king of Moab, out of the mountains of the east, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel. ⁸ How shall I denounce, whom God hath not denounced? and how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied? ⁹ For from the top of rocks I see him, and from hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and among the nations it shall not be reckoned. ¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob, and number the fourth part of Israel? May my soul die the death of the righteous, and may my last end be like his! ¹¹ And Balak said unto Bil’am, What hast thou done unto me? to denounce my enemies did I take thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them. ¹² And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that only which the Lord may put in my mouth?

¹⁵ And he said unto Balak, Place thyself here by thy burnt-offering, while I will repair to yonder place. ¹⁶ And the Lord met Bil’am, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak. ¹⁷ And he came to him, and, behold, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him; and Balak said unto him: What hath the Lord spoken? ¹⁸ And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; bend hither thy ear unto me, son of Zippor! ¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not fulfill it? ²⁰ Behold, to bless I have received the word; and he hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. ²¹ He hath not beheld any wrong in Jacob, nor hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glory of the king dwelleth among him. ²² God, who brought them out of Egypt, is to them like the heights of the reem. ²³ For there is no enchantment in Jacob, nor is there any divination in Israel: at the proper time shall it be said to Jacob and to Israel, what God doth work. ²⁴ Behold, it is a people, that shall rise up as a lioness, and as a lion shall it raise itself: it will not lie down until it have eaten the prey, and have drunk the blood of the slain. ²⁵ And Balak said unto Bil’am, Neither shalt thou denounce them, nor shalt thou any wise bless them. ²⁶ But Bil’am answered and said unto Balak, Have I not spoken unto thee, saying, all that the Lord will speak, that must I do.

⁵ How beautiful are thy tents, O Jacob, thy dwelling, O Israel! ⁶ As streams are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as aloe-trees, which the Lord hath planted, as cedar-trees beside the waters. ⁷ Water runneth out of His buckets, that his seed may be moistened by abundance of water; and exalted above Agag shall be his king, and raised on high shall be his kingdom. ⁸ God, who brought him forth out of Egypt, is to him like the heights of the reem; he will devour nations, his oppressors, and their bones will he break, and pierce them through with his arrows. ⁹ He coucheth, he lieth down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall make him rise up? They that bless thee be blessed, and they that curse thee be cursed. ¹⁰ And the anger of Balak was kindled against Bil’am, and he struck his hands together: and Balak said unto Bil’am, To denounce my enemies did I call thee, and, behold, thou hast even blessed them these three times.

⁴⁶ And ye tarried in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye tarried there.

⁵ Do not contend with them; for I will not give unto you of their land, even so much as a foot’s breadth; because unto Esau have I given mount Seir for an inheritance.

³² And Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Yahaz.

²⁶ I call this day the heavens and the earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not remain many days upon it, but ye shall surely be destroyed.

³⁴ Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes.

² The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ³ Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we who are here all of us alive this day.

^{27 (5:24)} Do thou approach, and hear all that the Lord our God may say; and thou shalt speak unto us all that the Lord our God may speak unto thee; and we will hear and do it.

^{27 (5:24)} Do thou approach, and hear all that the Lord our God may say; and thou shalt speak unto us all that the Lord our God may speak unto thee; and we will hear and do it. ^{28 (5:25)} And the Lord heard the voice of your words, while ye were speaking unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have done well in all that they have spoken.

^{28 (5:25)} And the Lord heard the voice of your words, while ye were speaking unto me; and the Lord said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have done well in all that they have spoken. ^{29 (5:26)} Who would grant that this their heart might remain in them, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times; in order that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

¹⁰ And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto thee, great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, ¹¹ And houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and wells hewed out which thou didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant; and thou hast eaten and art satisfied: ¹² Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

¹ When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater in number and mightier than thou;

²⁰ Moreover the hornet will the Lord thy God send out against them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.

⁷ For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and mountains;

¹² And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

² And ye shall know this day, that I speak not with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm;

⁷ But it is your own eyes which have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he hath done.

^{7 (13:8)} Some of the gods of the nations which are round about you, that are nigh unto thee, or that are far off from thee, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth:

¹³ Perfect shalt thou be with the Lord thy God.

^{4 (23:5)} For the reason, that they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because he hired against thee Bil’am the son of Beor of Pethor in Mesopotamia, to curse thee; ^{5 (23:6)} But the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Bil’am; and the Lord thy God changed unto thee the curse into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

^{5 (23:6)} But the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Bil’am; and the Lord thy God changed unto thee the curse into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

⁵ And thou shalt commence and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian, wandering about, was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a family few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.

¹⁷ Thou hast this day acknowledged the Lord, that he is thy God, and that thou wilt walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice;

^{1 (28:69)} These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he had made with them in Horeb. ^{2 (29:1)} And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye yourselves have seen all that the Lord hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

^{10 (29:9)} Ye are standing this day, all of you, before the Lord your God; your heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel, ^{11 (29:10)} Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in the midst of thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: ^{12 (29:11)} That thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord thy God, and into his oath of denunciation, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day. ^{13 (29:12)} In order to raise thee up today unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath spoken unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ^{14 (29:13)} And not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath; ^{15 (29:14)} But with him that is standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with him that is not here with us this day.

^{18 (29:17)} So that there may not be among you a man, or a woman, or a family, or a tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; that there may not be among you a root that beareth abundantly poison and wormwood.

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;

¹³ And that their children, who have not yet any knowledge, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, all the days which ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

¹⁹ Now therefore write ye for yourselves this song, and teach it the children of Israel, put it in their mouth; in order that this song may become for me a witness against the children of Israel.

²¹ And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouth of their seed; for I know their inclination which they have shown, even this day, before I have brought them into the land which I have sworn.

²⁴ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, ²⁵ That Moses commanded the Levites, the bearers of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, ²⁶ Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there against thee for a witness.

²⁶ Take this book of the law, and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there against thee for a witness.

²⁹ For I know that after my death ye will to a surety become corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and that the evil will befall you in the latter days, when ye do the evil in the eyes of the Lord, to incense him through the work of your hands.

¹ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹¹ As an eagle stirreth up his nest, fluttereth over his young, spreadeth abroad his wings, seizeth them, beareth them aloft on his pinions: ¹² So did the Lord alone lead him, and there was not with him a stranger god.

⁵ And Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the order of the Lord.

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the people broke up from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, and the priests the bearers of the ark of the covenant were before the people; ¹⁵ And as they that bore the ark were come up to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the edge of the water, the Jordan, however, had overflowed all its banks all the time of harvest, ¹⁶ That the waters which came down from above stood still and rose up as a wall, very far from the city Adam, which is beside Zarethan; and those that ran down toward the sea of the plain, the salt sea, failed, were cut off; and the people passed over opposite to Jericho. ¹⁷ And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had finished passing over the Jordan.

³ And command ye them, saying, Take yourselves hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging-place, where ye will lodge this night. ⁴ Then did Joshua call the twelve men, whom he had appointed out of the children of Israel, one man each out of every tribe: ⁵ And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take yourselves up every man one stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; ⁶ In order that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? ⁷ That ye shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. ⁸ And the children of Israel did so as Joshua had commanded; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. ⁹ Twelve stones also did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, on the spot where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood: and they have remained there unto this day. ¹⁰ But the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hastened and passed over. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when all the people had finished passing over, that the ark of the Lord passed over with the priests in the presence of the people. ¹² And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken unto them:

²⁰ And those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. ²¹ And he said unto the children of Israel, thus, When your children shall ask in time to come their fathers, saying, What mean these stones? ²² Then shall ye let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel pass over this Jordan; ²³ That the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over;

²³ That the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over; ²⁴ In order that all the nations of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; in order that ye may fear the Lord your God all the days.

⁶ For during forty years the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness, till there was an end of all the people, the men of war, who were come out of Egypt, who had not obeyed the voice of the Lord; unto whom the Lord had sworn that he would not let them see the land, which the Lord had sworn unto their fathers that he would give unto us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹ Now Jericho was shut up, and barred up, because of the children of Israel: no one went out, and no one came in. ² And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho and its king, even the mighty men of valor. ³ And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. ⁴ And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven cornets of rams’ horns; and on the seventh day shall ye compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the cornets. ⁵ And it shall come to pass, that, when they blow a long blast with the ram’s horn, when ye hear the sound of the cornet all the people shall utter a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. ⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven cornets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord. ⁷ And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord. ⁸ And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests, bearing the seven cornets of rams’ horns before the Lord, passed on and blew with the cornets; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. ⁹ And the armed men went before the priests that blew the cornets, and the rereward came after the ark, going on, and blowing with the cornets. ¹⁰ And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you, Shout; and then shall ye shout. ¹¹ So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going round it once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. ¹² And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. ¹³ And the seven priests bearing the seven cornets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the cornets; and the armed men went before them; and the rereward came after the ark of the Lord, going on, and blowing with the cornets. ¹⁴ And they compassed the city on the second day once, and returned into the camp: so did they six days. ¹⁵ And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after this manner seven times; only on that day they compassed the city seven times. ¹⁶ And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priest blew with the cornets, that Joshua’ said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city. ¹⁷ And the city shall be devoted, it, and all that is therein, to the Lord: only Rachab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house; because she did hide the messengers that we sent. ¹⁸ But ye, keep yourselves from the devoted things, lest ye devote and yet take of the devoted things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. ¹⁹ And all the silver, and gold, and vessels of copper and iron, shall be holy unto the Lord: into the treasury of the Lord shall they come. ²⁰ So the people shouted, when they blew with the cornets; and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the cornet, that the people uttered a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, and the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. ²¹ And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and lamb, and ass, with the edge of the sword. ²² But unto the two men that had spied out the country, Joshua said, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all belonging to her, as ye have sworn unto her. ²³ And the young men, the spies, went in, and brought out Rachab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all belonging to her: and they brought out all her kindred, and they left them without the camp of Israel. ²⁴ And the city they burnt with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of copper and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. ²⁵ And Rachab the harlot did Joshua save alive, and her father’s household, and all belonging to her; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel even unto this day; because she had hidden the messengers, whom Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. ²⁶ And Joshua adjured the people at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that will rise up and build this city Jericho: with his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and with his youngest shall he set up its gates. ²⁷ And the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was spread throughout all the country.

¹ Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek, the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured ‘Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; that as he had done to Jericho and its king, so had he done to ‘Ai and its king; and that the inhabitants of Gib’on had made peace with Israel, and were in the midst of them: ² That they were greatly afraid; because Gib’on was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than ‘Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty. ³ Therefore Adoni-zedek the king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham the king of Hebron, and unto Piram the king of Yarmuth, and unto Yaphia’, the king of Lachish, and unto Debir the king of ‘Eglon, saying, ⁴ Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gib’on; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. ⁵ And the five kings of the Emorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Yarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of ‘Eglon, assembled themselves together, and went up, they and all their camps, and encamped before Gib’on, and made war against it. ⁶ And the men of Gib’on sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Do not withdraw thy hand from thy servants: come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Emorites that dwell in the mountains are assembled together against us. ⁷ And Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor. ⁸ And the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid of them; for into thy hand have I delivered them: there shall not stand a man of them before thee. ⁹ And Joshua came unto them suddenly; the whole night he went up from Gilgal. ¹⁰ And the Lord brought them in confusion before Israel, and they smote them with a great slaughter at Gib’on, and pursued them by the way of the ascent to Beth-choron, and smote them up to ‘Azekah, and up to Makkedah. ¹¹ And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were in the declivity of Beth-choron, that the Lord cast down upon them great stones from heaven, up to ‘Azekah, and they died: there were more who died by means of the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel had slain with the sword.

¹³ But as for the cities that had been left standing in their strength, these did Israel not burn: save Chazor only did Joshua burn.

¹⁰ And all the cities of Sichon the king of the Emorites, who reigned over Cheshbon, up to the border of the children of ‘Ammon;

¹ And these are the countries which the children of Israel obtained as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Elazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the divisions of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for an inheritance unto them,

⁵⁰ By the order of the Lord did they give him the city which he had asked, Timnathserach on the mountain of Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

^{45 (21:43)} There failed not aught of all the good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel: it all came to pass.

¹³ And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Menasseh, into the land of Gil’ad, Phinehas the son of Elazar the priest.

²⁷ But it shall be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our, peace-offerings; and that your children may not say in time to come to our children, Ye have no portion in the Lord. ²⁸ And we said, that it shall be when they should say this to us and to our generations in time to come, that we may say, Behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

³⁴ And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar (“’Ed”); for they said it is a witness between us that the Eternal is God.

² That Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am become old and well stricken in age;

¹² For if ye do in any wise turn back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, those that are left remaining near you, and make marriages with them, and come in among them, and they among you: ¹³ Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and stings in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. ¹⁴ And, behold, I am going this day the way of all the earth; and ye know with all your heart and with all your soul, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you: all are come to pass unto you, not one thing thereof hath failed. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, that as every good thing is come upon you, which the Lord your God spoke unto you: so will the Lord bring upon you every evil thing, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given unto you.

¹ And Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; and he called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and they presented themselves before God. ² And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel, On the other side of the river did your fathers dwell in old time, even Terach, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods.

⁵ And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt in the manner as I have done among them; and after that I brought you out. ⁶ And I brought your fathers out of Egypt; and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red Sea. ⁷ And they cried unto the Lord, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I had done on Egypt; and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days. ⁸ And I brought you into the land of the Emorites, that dwelt on the other side of the Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land; and I destroyed them from before you. ⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel; and he sent and called Bil’am the son of Beor to curse you; ¹⁰ And I would not hearken unto Bil’am; but he had to bless you instead: and I delivered you out of his hand. ¹¹ And ye passed over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho; and then fought the men of Jericho against you, the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hand. ¹² And I sent before you the hornet which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Emorites: not with thy sword, and not with thy bow. ¹³ And I gave you a land for which ye had not toiled, and cities which ye had not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. ¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ¹⁵ And if it be displeasing in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve: whether the gods which your fathers that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

²³ And now put away the strange gods which are in the midst of you, and incline your heart unto the Lord the God of Israel.

²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

⁶ And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to take possession of the land. ⁷ And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days after Joshua, who had seen all the great deeds of the Lord, which he had done for Israel. ⁸ Then died Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, being one hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him on the border of his inheritance in Timnath-cheres, in the mountain of Ephraim, on the north side of mount Ga’ash.

¹⁰ And I said unto you, I am the Lord your God: ye shall not fear the gods of the Emorites, in whose land ye dwell; but ye have not obeyed my voice.

¹ And Abimelech the son of Yerubba’al went to Shechem unto his mother’s brothers, and spoke unto them, and unto all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying, ² Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, What is better for you, either that there should rule over you seventy men, all the sons of Yerubba’al, or that there reign over you one man? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh. ³ And his mother’s brothers spoke concerning him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words; and their heart became inclined after Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

⁶ And all the men of Shechem and all Beth-millo assembled together, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was by Shechem.

¹⁵ And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us entirely as it seemeth good in thy eyes; only deliver us, we pray thee, this time. ¹⁶ And they put away the strange gods from their midst, and served the Lord; and his soul was grieved for the trouble of Israel.

²⁵ And now art thou then any better than Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

²⁸ And Phinehas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, shall I yet continue to go out to battle with the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I forbear? And the Lord said, Go up; for tomorrow will I deliver him into thy hand.

¹⁵ And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is returned back unto her people, and unto her gods; return thou after thy sister-in-law.

¹⁵ And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is returned back unto her people, and unto her gods; return thou after thy sister-in-law. ¹⁶ But Ruth said, Urge me not to leave thee, to return from following thee; for whither thou goest, will I go; and where thou lodgest, will I lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

¹⁴ And therefore have I sworn unto the house of ‘Eli, that the iniquity of ‘Eli’s house shall not be atoned for with sacrifice or meat-offering for ever.

²⁰ And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up away from us?

³ And Samuel said unto all the house of Israel, as followeth, If with all your heart ye do return unto the Lord, then put away the gods of the stranger and the ‘Ashtaroth from your midst, and direct your heart unto the Lord, and serve him alone: and then will he deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁴ Then did the children of Israel put away the Be’alim and the ‘Ashtaroth, and served the Lord alone.

¹² And Samuel took one stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Eben-ha’ezer, saying, As far as this hath the Lord helped us.

¹⁹ And ye for your part have this day rejected your God, he who hath saved you out of all your misfortunes and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nevertheless, thou must set a king over us: and now present yourselves before the Lord according to your tribes, and according to your thousands.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray in behalf of you; but I will teach you the good and the right way: ²⁴ Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for see what great things he hath done with you.

³⁰ Benayahu the Pir’athonite, Hiddai of Nachale-Ga’ash,

⁵⁸ That he may incline our heart unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

¹ And Rehobo’am went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.

²¹ And Elijah approached unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between the two opinions? if the Lord be the God, follow him; and if Ba’al—follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

¹⁷ And Yehoyada’ made a covenant between the Lord and between the king and between the people, that they should be a people unto the Lord; and between the king and between the people.

³ I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, and with an undivided heart, and have done what is good in thy eyes. And Hezekiah wept aloud.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

² And he went out to meet Assa, and said unto him, Hear me, O Assa, and all Judah and Benjamin, The Lord is with you, while ye remain with him; and if ye seek him, he will let himself be found by you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹² And they entered into the covenant to seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced because of the oath; for with all their heart had they sworn, and with their whole desire did they seek him, and he let himself be found by them: and the Lord gave them rest on every side.

¹⁶ And Yehoyada’ made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be a people unto the Lord.

² And Joash did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, all the days of Yehoyada’ the priest.

¹⁷ But after the death of Yehoyada’ came the princes of Judah, and bowed themselves down to the king. Then did the king hearken unto them. ¹⁸ And they forsook the house of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and there came wrath over Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

¹⁰ Now it is in my heart to make a covenant for the Lord the God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

²⁹ And the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king went up into the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, from the great to the small; and he read before their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which had been found in the house of the Lord. ³¹ And the king stood up on his stand, and he made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book. ³² And he caused to accede to it every one that was present in Jerusalem and Benjamin. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted in accordance with the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

¹⁶ But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

²² For I was ashamed to ask of the king an army and horsemen to assist us against an enemy on the way; because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all those that seek him for good; but his power and his wrath are against all those that forsake him.

¹¹ Which thou hast commanded through means of thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to take possession thereof, is a land defiled through the defilement of the nations of the lands, through their abominations, with which they have filled it from one end to another through their uncleanness.

⁷ Thou art indeed the Lord the true God, who didst choose Abram, and bring him forth out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and change his name to Abraham; ⁸ And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Emorites, and the Perizittes, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed: and thou hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.

¹¹ And the sea didst thou divide before them, so that they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land; and their pursuers didst thou throw into the deeps, like a stone in mighty waters. ¹² And by a pillar of cloud didst thou lead them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night, to give light unto them on the way whereon they should go. ¹³ Also on mount Sinai camest thou down, and spokest with them from heaven; and thou gavest them upright ordinances, and truthful laws, good statutes and commandments; ¹⁴ And thy holy sabbath madest thou known unto them, and commandments, statutes, and a law didst thou enjoin on them, by the hand of Moses thy servant. ¹⁵ And bread from heaven didst thou give them for their hunger, and water out of the rock broughtest thou forth for them for their thirst; and thou didst order them to go in to take possession of the land concerning which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it unto them. ¹⁶ And they and our fathers acted presumptuously, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments. ¹⁷ And they refused to obey, and remembered not thy marvelous deeds which thou hadst done with them; but they hardened their neck, and spoke of appointing a chief to return to their bondage, in their rebellion; but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and forsookest them not. ¹⁸ Yea, although they had made for themselves a molten calf, and said, ‘This is thy god that hath brought thee up out of Egypt,’ and had practised great provocations: ¹⁹ Yet in thy abundant mercies didst thou not forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them on the way; nor the pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way whereon they should go. ²⁰ And thy good spirit thou gavest to make them intelligent, and thy manna thou withheldest not from their mouth, and water thou gavest them for their thirst. ²¹ And forty years didst thou provide for them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out; and their feet swelled not. ²² Thou gavest them also kingdoms and nations, which thou didst divide into various corners: and they took possession of the land of Sichon, even the land of the king of Cheshbon, and the land of ‘Og the king of Bashan.

²⁴ And the children entered in and took possession of the land; and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Cana’anites, and gavest them up into their hands, with their kings, and the nations of the land, that they might do with them according to their pleasure. ²⁵ And they captured fortified cities, and a fat soil; and they took possession of houses full of all good things, hewn-out wells, vineyards, and olive-yards, and fruit trees in abundance; and they ate, and were satisfied, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

^{38 (10:1)} And because of all this, we make a faithful covenant, and write it down; and on the sealed document are our princes, our Levites, and our priests.

^{28 (10:29)} And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gate-keepers, the singers, the temple-servants, and all those that had separated themselves from the nations of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding, ^{29 (10:30)} Held firmly with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given through means of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commandments of the Eternal One, our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

¹ There was a man in the land of ‘Uz, Job was his name; And this man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil.

⁶ Thy own mouth must condemn thee, but not I: yea, thy own lips will testify against thee.

²⁸ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me back to death, and to the house of assembly for all the living.

²³ For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.

^{3 (44:4)} For not by their sword did they obtain possession of the land, and their own arm brought them no victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst given them thy favor. ^{4 (44:5)} Thou art my King, O God: ordain salvation for Jacob. ^{5 (44:6)} Through thee will we butt down our assailants: through thy name will we tread under foot our opponents. ^{6 (44:7)} For not in my bow will I trust, and my sword shall not help me.

^{10 (49:11)} For he must see that wise men die, that together the fool and the brutish person perish and leave to others their wealth.

^{15 (77:16)} Thou hast redeemed with a mighty arm thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. ^{16 (77:17)} The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they shook: also the depths trembled. ^{17 (77:18)} The clouds poured out water; the skies sent forth thunder: also thy arrows sped along. ^{18 (77:19)} The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings gave light to the world; the earth trembled and quaked, ^{19 (77:20)} Through the sea led thy way, and thy path was through mighty waters, and thy footsteps could not be known. ^{20 (77:21)} Thou didst lead like a flock thy people by means of Moses and Aaron.

¹³ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters stand upright as a wall.

⁴³ When he displayed in Egypt his signs, and his wonderful tokens in the fields of Zo’an. ⁴⁴ And he changed their rivers into blood; and their running streams, that they could not drink of them. ⁴⁵ He sent out among them various wild beasts, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ And he gave unto the cricket their products, and their labor unto the locust. ⁴⁷ He slew with hail their vines, and their sycamore-trees with ice-bolts. ⁴⁸ And he surrendered to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the lightning’s flashes. ⁴⁹ He let loose against them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation, and distress, a host of angels of misfortune. ⁵⁰ He leveled a path for his anger; he withheld not from death their soul, and their life he surrendered to the pestilence; ⁵¹ And he smote all the first-born in Egypt; the first of their strength in the tents of Ham;

⁵⁴ And he brought them to his holy territory, even to this mount, which his right hand had acquired. ⁵⁵ And he drove out from before them nations, and divided them by the measuring-line as an inheritance, and he caused to dwell in their tents the tribes of Israel.

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, although they had seen my doing. ¹⁰ Forty years long did I feel loathing on that generation, and I said, It is a people of an erring heart; and they truly acknowledged not my ways:

⁵ Exalt ye the Lord our God, and bow yourselves down before his footstool: he is holy.—

⁹ Exalt the Lord our God, and bow yourselves down before his holy mount; for holy is the Lord our God.

² I will carefully regard the way of the perfect: oh when will thou come unto me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house.

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

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant, Aaron also whom he had made choice of. ²⁷ They displayed among them his effective signs, and wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word. ²⁹ He changed their waters into blood, and slew their fish. ³⁰ Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the very chambers of their kings. ³¹ He spoke, and there came various wild beasts, lice also within all their boundary. ³² He gave them as their rain hail, and flames of fire in their land. ³³ And he smote their vines and their fig-trees, and broke the trees within their boundary. ³⁴ He spoke, and the locusts came, and crickets, and that without number; ³⁵ And they ate up all the herbs in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ And he smote all the first-born in their land, the first of all their strength.

⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of nations; and the labor of people they obtained as an inheritance:

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; a good understanding have all that fulfill his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

³ The sea beheld it, and fled: the Jordan was driven backward.

⁵ What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? thou, O Jordan, that thou art driven backward?

¹⁷ Not the dead can praise the Lord, nor all those that go down into the silence of death.

¹⁶ O Lord, truly am I thy servant, I am thy servant,—the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosened my fetters.

¹ ALEPH. Happy are they whose way is perfect, who walk in the law of the Lord.

¹¹ In my heart have I treasured up thy saying, in order that I may not sin against thee.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to desire for gain.

⁸⁰ Let my heart be entire in thy statutes, in order that I may not be put to shame.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I will perform it, to observe thy righteous ordinances.

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage to eternity; for they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, in all their ways.

¹⁷³ Let thy hand be ready to help me; for thy precepts have I chosen.

³ Lo, children are an inheritance from the Lord: a reward is the fruit of the body.

⁴ But with thee there is forgiveness, in order that thou mayest be feared.

⁸ He it is who smote the first-born of Egypt, both of man and of cattle; ⁹ Who sent signs and wonderful tokens into the midst of thee, O Egypt, against Pharaoh, and against all his servants; ¹⁰ Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings; ¹¹ Sichon the king of the Emorites, and ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan;

¹⁰ To him that smote Egypt in their first-born; for to eternity endureth his kindness;

¹³ To him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹⁴ And caused Israel to pass through the midst of it; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹⁵ But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; for to eternity endureth his kindness.

¹⁷ To him who smote great kings; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹⁸ And slew mighty kings; for to eternity endureth his kindness. ¹⁹ Even Sichon the king of the Emorites; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ²⁰ And ‘Og the king of Bashan; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ²¹ And gave their land as an inheritance; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ²² As an inheritance unto Israel his servant; for to eternity endureth his kindness;

⁴ Permit not my heart to incline after any evil thing, to practise deeds in wickedness with men that are doers of wrong: and let me not eat of their dainties.

² To let thy ear listen unto wisdom: if thou wouldst incline thy heart to understanding.

²² A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; but the wealth of the sinner is treasured up for the righteous.

⁹ Lest I become over-full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I become poor, and steal, and trespass against the name of my God.

² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.

²⁸ But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.

¹⁶ And the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God shall be sanctified by displaying his righteousness.

³ And one called unto the other, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory. ⁴ And the posts of the threshold shook at the voice of those that called aloud, and the house was filled with smoke. ⁵ And I said, Woe is me! for I am lost; because a man of unclean lips am I, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips do I dwell; for the King, the Lord of hosts have my eyes seen.

¹¹ When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.

¹¹ Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁵ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, the Holy One of Israel, In repose and rest shall ye be helped; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.

⁵ This one will say, I belong to the Lord; and the other will call himself by the name of Jacob; and the other will inscribe himself with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

⁴ And even unto old age I am the same; and even unto the time of hoary hairs will I bear: l have done it, and I will carry you; even I will bear, and deliver you.

² Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you; for he was one when I called him, and I blessed him, and I increased him.

¹⁷ No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that will rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their due reward from me, saith the Lord.

¹ The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and pious men are taken away, without one considering that before the evil the righteous is taken away. ² He shall come to his fathers in peace: they shall repose in their resting-place, every one that walketh in his uprightness.

⁷ The kindnesses of the Lord will I mention, the praises of the Lord, in accordance with all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the abundant goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and the abundance of his kindnesses. ⁸ And he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie; and he became to them a Saviour. ⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and he carried them all the days of old. ¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit; and he changed himself to become their enemy, and he fought against them.

¹⁰ But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit; and he changed himself to become their enemy, and he fought against them. ¹¹ Then remembered his people the ancient days of Moses, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put within him his holy Spirit? ¹² That displayed by the right hand of Moses his glorious arm; that divided the water before them, to make unto himself an everlasting name?

¹² That displayed by the right hand of Moses his glorious arm; that divided the water before them, to make unto himself an everlasting name? ¹³ That led them through the deeps, as a horse through the wilderness, that they should not stumble?

¹³ That led them through the deeps, as a horse through the wilderness, that they should not stumble? ¹⁴ As a beast goeth down into the valley, so did the spirit of the Lord bring them to rest; thus didst thou guide thy people, to make unto thyself a glorious name.

¹¹ But ye who forsake the Lord, who forget my holy mountain, that set out a table for the god of Fortune, and that fill for Destiny the drink-offering.— ¹² Yea, I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall kneel down to the slaughter; because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but ye did what is evil in my eyes, and that wherein I had no delight did ye choose.

¹³ Hope of Israel, O Lord, all that forsake thee shall be made ashamed, and the backsliders among me shall be written down on the earth; because they have forsaken the fountain of living waters, the Lord.

³ And thou shalt say, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal unto Jerusalem, Thy origin and thy birth are out of the land of Canaan: thy father was an Emorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

²⁴ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth wrong, and doth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? all his righteousness that he hath done shall not he remembered: through his trespass which he hath committed, and through his sin that he hath done,—through them shall he die.

⁷ And I said unto them, Cast ye away every one of the abominations of his eyes, and on the idols of Egypt shall ye not defile yourselves: I am the Lord your God. ⁸ But they rebelled against me, and they would not hearken unto me; they did not cast away every one the abominations of their eyes, and the idols of Egypt did they not forsake: and I thought then to pour out my fury over them, to let out all my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

¹⁸ And I said unto their children in the wilderness, In the statutes of your fathers shall ye not walk, and their ordinances shall ye not keep, and on their idols shall ye not defile yourselves.

³⁹ As for you, O house of Israel, thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name do not profane any more with your gifts, and with your idols.

³ And they played the harlot in Egypt; in their youth they played the harlot: there were their breasts pressed, and there they suffered their virgin bosoms to be touched.

⁵ After that will the children of Israel return, and seek for the Lord their God and David their king; and fearing will they hasten to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days,

^{2 (14:3)} Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, “Pardon all our iniquity, and accept our return to good; and let us repay the steers of sacrifice with the prayer of our lips. ^{3 (14:4)} Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”

^{8 (14:9)} Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will observe him; I will be to him like a green fir-tree; through me is thy fruit found.

⁹ Yet have I destroyed the Emorite from before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. ¹⁰ And it was I who have brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to take possession of the land of the Emorite.

²⁵ Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and meat-offerings in the wilderness during forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ Bear then the canopy of your chief idol, and the figure of your images, the star of your god, which ye have made for yourselves.

² And many nations shall come, and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us of his ways, and we may walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord out of Jerusalem.

⁴ Although I had brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bond-men; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. ⁵ O my people, do but remember what Balak the king of Moab resolved, and what Bil’am the son of Be’or answered him, from Shittim unto Gilgal, in order that ye may know the gracious benefits of the Lord.

¹³ Thou, who art too pure of eyes to behold evil, and canst not look on trouble, wherefore wilt thou look upon those that deal treacherously, be silent when the wicked swalloweth up him that is more righteous than he?

¹¹ For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the wood-work will answer it.

⁵ Your fathers,—where are they! and the prophets,—could they live for ever!

²³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall happen, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold—yea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.