Genesis 34 Cross References - MKJV

¹ And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. ² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and humbled her. ³ And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke to the heart of the girl. ⁴ And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this girl for a wife. ⁵ And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. And his sons were with his cattle in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they had come. ⁶ And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. ⁷ And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard. And the men were furious, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel, in lying with the daughter of Jacob. And it ought not to be done so. ⁸ And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. ⁹ And you make marriages with us, giving your daughters to us, and taking our daughters to you. ¹⁰ And you shall live with us. And the land shall be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it. ¹¹ And Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, Let me find grace in your eyes, and whatever you shall say to me I will give. ¹² Heap upon me ever so much price and dowry, and I will give according as you shall say to me. But give me the girl for a wife. ¹³ And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, speaking with deceit because he had defiled Dinah their sister. ¹⁴ And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised. For it is a reproach to us. ¹⁵ But in this we will agree with you, if you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised, ¹⁶ then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will live with you, and we will become one people. ¹⁷ But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will go. ¹⁸ And their words pleased Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. ¹⁹ And the young man did not hesitate to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was more honorable than all the house of his father. ²⁰ And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying, ²¹ These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them live in the land, and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ²² Only on this condition will the men agree to us, to live with us, to be one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Shall not their cattle and their substance and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us. ²⁴ And all that went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son. And every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city. ²⁵ And it happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each his sword and came upon the city boldly, and killed all the males. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. ²⁷ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their sheep and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field. ²⁹ And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, they took captive, and plundered even all that was in the house. ³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me stink among those who live in the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And I, being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and kill me. And I shall be destroyed, my house and I. ³¹ And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

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

¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

² And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing.

¹² And it will be when the Egyptians see you, they shall say, This is his wife. And they will kill me, but they will save you alive.

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

⁹ Is not the whole land before you? I pray you, separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.

¹¹ And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you.

¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.

²³ And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his silver; every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in the same day, even as God said to him.

³ And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in Your sight, do not pass away, I pray, from Your servant.

¹⁴ And Lot went out and spoke with his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up and get out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked to his sons-in-law.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? In what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you. Live where it pleases you.

²¹ And he lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

¹⁰ And Ephron lived among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the ears of the sons of Heth, of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

³ And I will make you swear by Jehovah, the God of Heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

⁵³ And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

²⁷ And the boys grew. And Esau was a man knowing hunting, and Jacob was a simple man, living in tents. ²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. But Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹ And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, I beg you, Let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. Therefore his name was called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point of dying, and what profit shall this birthright be to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me this day. And he swore to him, and he sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and soup of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and went his way. And Esau despised his birthright.

³⁴ And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

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

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these of the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me?

⁶ And Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him away to Padan-aram in order to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

¹³ And behold! Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac! The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed. ¹⁴ And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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

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

³³ And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah has heard that I was hated, He has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived again, and bore a son, and said, Now this time my husband will return to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi.

¹³ And Leah said, I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed. And she called his name Asher.

²¹ And afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

³⁵ And that day he took out the he-goats that were striped and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black from among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.

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

¹⁵ And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people with me. And he said, Why this? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

¹⁹ And he bought a piece of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and humbled her. ³ And his soul clung to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke to the heart of the girl.

¹³ And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father, speaking with deceit because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

²¹ These men are at peace with us. Therefore let them live in the land, and trade in it. For behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. ²² Only on this condition will the men agree to us, to live with us, to be one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. ²³ Shall not their cattle and their substance and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live with us.

³¹ And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers feed the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am. ¹⁴ And he said to him, please go see whether it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks. And bring me word again. And he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand. And he did not know anything that he had, except the bread which he ate. And Joseph was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance. ⁷ And after these things it happened that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph. And she said, Lie with me.

²⁰ And the lean and the evil-appearing cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

³⁴ And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies, but that you are honest. And I will deliver you your brother, and you shall trade in the land.

⁷ His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed, he brought with him into Egypt.

¹⁵ These were the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

²⁷ And Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they had possession in it, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers; tools of violence are their weapons. ⁶ Oh my soul, do not come into their secret. Let not my honor be united with their assembly. For in their anger they killed a man, and in their self-will they hamstrung a bull. ⁷ Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

⁷ Let their anger be cursed, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

¹⁴ And he said, Who made you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

²¹ And they said to them, Jehovah look upon you and judge, because you have made our smell to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hands to kill us.

⁵ And now if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to Me above all the nations; for all the earth is Mine. ⁶ And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the sons of Israel.

¹⁶ And if a man lures a virgin who is not promised, and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. ¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

² Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of Jehovah concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do any one of them,

¹³ And if the whole company of Israel sins through ignorance, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and if they do that which ought not to be done to any of all the commands of Jehovah, and are guilty;

²⁷ And if any one of the people of the land sins through ignorance, by doing that which is not to be done against one of the commands of Jehovah, and is guilty;

³ Then Moses said to Aaron, It is that which Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

¹⁵ And Balak sent leaders again, more and more honorable than those.

⁷ And they warred against the Midianites, as Jehovah commanded Moses. And they killed all the males.

¹⁷ And now kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him.

¹⁷ the likeness of any beast on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air,

³ Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter to your son.

⁷ Jehovah did not set His love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people, for you were the fewest of all people.

¹⁷ and so that you might not say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth. ¹⁸ But you shall remember Jehovah your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, so that He may confirm His covenant which He has sworn to your fathers, as it is today.

⁵ then you shall bring forth that man or that woman who has committed that evil thing, to your gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones until they die.

¹⁴ And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her at all for silver, you shall not make a slave of her, because you have humbled her.

²¹ then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done foolishness in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put evil away from among you.

²⁴ then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So you shall put away evil from among you.

²⁸ If a man finds a girl, a virgin not engaged, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found, ²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife. Because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

¹⁷ There shall be no harlot of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

⁴² I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy scalp of the enemy.

² At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make sharp knives for yourselves and circumcise the sons of Israel again, the second time. ³ And Joshua made sharp knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. ⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised. All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the wayside, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵ For all the people who came out were circumcised. But all the people born in the wilderness by the wayside, as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. ⁶ For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were destroyed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. To them Jehovah swore that He would not show them the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

⁶ For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the people, the men of war, who came out of Egypt, were destroyed, because they did not obey the voice of Jehovah. To them Jehovah swore that He would not show them the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers that He would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey. ⁷ And Joshua circumcised their sons, whom He raised up in their place. For they were not circumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the wayside. ⁸ And it happened when they had finished circumcising all the people, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were well.

⁸ And it happened when they had finished circumcising all the people, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were well. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Therefore, the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.

¹ But the sons of Israel committed a sin in the cursed thing. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the thing which was cursed. And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the sons of Israel.

¹³ Up! Sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. For thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, A cursed thing is in the midst of you, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the cursed thing from among you.

¹⁵ And it shall be, he who is taken with the cursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all he has, because he has broken the covenant of Jehovah, and because he has done wickedness in Israel.

²¹ When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, I coveted them and took them. And behold, they are hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.

²⁵ And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

¹ And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. ² And he came up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And now get her for me for a wife.

³ And Samson said concerning them, Now I shall be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do evil with them.

²² They were making their hearts merry. And, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, set upon the house all around and beat at the door and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring out the man that came to your house so that we may know him. ²³ And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, I pray you, do not do evil, since this man has come into my house. Do not do this foolish sin. ²⁴ Behold, my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine. I will bring them out now, and you humble them and do with them what seems good to you. But do not do so vile a thing to this man. ²⁵ But the men would not listen to him. And the man took his concubine and brought her out to them. And they knew her and rolled themselves on her all night until the morning. And they sent her away at the dawning of the day.

⁶ And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the land of the inheritance of Israel. For they have committed evil and folly in Israel.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law. But Ruth clung to her.

¹ And Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. And he said, Such a one! Turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.

²⁷ But the sons of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him and brought him no present. But he was silent.

⁴ And all Israel heard, saying, Saul has struck a garrison of the Philistines, and also Israel has made himself stink to the Philistines. And the people were called to Gilgal after Saul.

⁶ And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised ones. It may be that Jehovah will work for us. For there is no restraint to Jehovah, to save by many or by few.

² And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer of the herd in your hand with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

¹¹ And Samuel said to Jesse, Are all the young men here? And he said, There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he keeps the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and bring him, for we will not sit down until he comes here.

¹⁵ And David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.

²⁶ And David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine and takes away this shame from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?

³⁶ Your servant killed both the lion and the bear. And this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.

¹ And it happened when he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as he did his own soul.

²⁵ And Saul said, You shall say this to David, The king does not desire any dowry except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. ²⁶ And when his servants told David these words, it was right in the eyes of David to be the king's son-in-law. And the days were not fulfilled. ²⁷ And David arose and went forth, he and his men. And they killed two hundred men of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.

¹⁴ And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all your servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and who goes at your bidding, and who is honorable in your house?

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines. And Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel, and so I shall escape out of his hand.

¹² And Achish believed David, saying, He has made himself to be hated among his people Israel, and has become my servant forever.

²⁰ Tell it not in Gath, do not let it be known in the streets of Askelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

²⁶ Then Abner called to Joab and said, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long shall it be then before you command the people to return from chasing their brothers?

¹⁴ And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

⁶ And the sons of Ammon saw that they had begun to stink before David. And the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and from King Maacah a thousand men, and from Ishtob twelve thousand men.

² And it happened one evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing. And the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

¹² And she answered him, No, my brother, do not humble me. For no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do this folly. ¹³ And I, where shall I cause my shame to go? And as for you, you shall be as one of the fools in Israel. But now please speak to the king. For he will not withhold me from you.

¹³ And I, where shall I cause my shame to go? And as for you, you shall be as one of the fools in Israel. But now please speak to the king. For he will not withhold me from you.

²¹ And when King David heard of all these things, he was very angry. ²² And Absalom did not speak to his brother Amnon, neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar. ²³ And it happened after two full years Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, beside Ephraim. And Absalom invited all the king's sons. ²⁴ And Absalom came to the king and said, Behold now, your servant has shearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant. ²⁵ And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go now, lest we be too heavy upon you. And he pressed him. He would not go, however, but blessed him. ²⁶ Then Absalom said, If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us? And the king said to him, Why should he go with you? ²⁷ But Absalom pressed him, so that he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. ²⁸ And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, And watch when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Strike Amnon, you shall kill him. Do not fear. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous, and be brave. ²⁹ And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. And all the king's sons arose. And they each got on his mule and fled.

² And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate. And it was so, if any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him and said, What city are you from? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

⁷ And it happened at the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to Jehovah in Hebron.

⁷ And now get up and go out. Speak to the heart of your servants. For I swear by Jehovah if you do not go out, not a man shall stay with you tonight. And that will be worse to you than all the evil which has come to you from your youth until now.

² of the nations which Jehovah had said to the sons of Israel, You shall not go in to them, and they shall not go in to you; surely they will turn away your heart after their gods. Solomon clung to these in love.

¹⁸ And he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father's house have, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and you have followed the Baals.

⁹ And she wrote in the letter, saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people.

¹ And Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and exalted man with his master, because Jehovah had given deliverance to Syria by him. He was also a mighty man, but a leper.

⁷ And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who sinned in the cursed thing.

⁹ And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.

¹² Remember His marvelous works which He had done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,

¹⁹ when you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it,

⁶ And the Ammonites saw that they had made themselves stink before David, and Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out of Maachah of Syria, and out of Zobah.

²² And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of Jehovah. And they ate the appointed things seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

²⁵ But Hezekiah did not give again according to the good done to him, for his heart was lifted up. And there was wrath on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁰ they killed the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not lay their hands on the spoil.

¹⁶ But the rest of the Jews in the king's provinces gathered themselves and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their foes. But they did not lay their hands on the spoil.

¹⁵ And the Sabeans fell on and took them away. Yea, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword. And I only have escaped alone to tell you. ¹⁶ While he was still speaking, there also came another and said, The fire of God has fallen from the heavens and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and destroyed them. And I only have escaped alone to tell you.

⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.

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

⁵ that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?

⁷ when I went out to the gate by the city; when I prepared my seat in the street!

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

⁹ If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

² They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

⁹ I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because You have done it.

¹ A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

² My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.

⁵ Your testimonies are very sure; holiness becomes Your house forever, O Jehovah.

¹² when they were a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to Your judgments at all times.

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

¹⁶ For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁴ For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not take any ransom; nor will he be willing if you multiply the gifts.

⁷ and I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,

¹⁷ The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

²⁹ He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise in heart.

¹³ The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips, but the just shall come out of trouble.

¹⁸ There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals. ¹⁹ The lips of truth shall be established forever, but only while I wink is a lying tongue. ²⁰ Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to counselors of peace there is joy.

²⁰ He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.

²⁷ He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.

⁴ Do not labor to be rich; cease from your own understanding. ⁵ Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

²⁸ Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, nor deceive with your lips. ²⁹ Do not say, I will do so to him as he has done to me; I will give to the man according to his work.

²⁴ He who hates pretends with his lips and stores up deceit within him. ²⁵ When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him; for seven hateful things are in his heart. ²⁶ He whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shown before the congregation.

²⁰ A faithful man shall overflow with blessings, but he who makes haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

²³ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

⁶ Set me as a seal on Your heart, as a seal on Your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Jehovah.

¹⁰ Hear the Word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom; give ear to the Law of our God, people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? says Jehovah; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of he-goats. ¹² When you come to appear before Me, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts? ¹³ Bring no more vain sacrifice; incense is an abomination to Me; the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting; I cannot endure evil and the assembly! ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them. ¹⁵ And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;

³ the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the adviser, and the skilled worker, and the expert charmer. ⁴ And I will give young boys to be their rulers, and caprices shall rule over them. ⁵ And the people shall be crushed, every man by another, and every man by his neighbor; the boy shall act proudly against the old man, and the low against the honorable.

¹³ For this My people go into exile without knowledge, and their honorable men into famine, and his multitude is dried up with thirst.

⁸ Who has purposed this against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are rulers, whose merchants are the weighty of the earth? ⁹ Jehovah of Hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the weighty of the earth.

⁸ Then Assyria shall fall with the sword, not of great man; and the sword, not of lowly man, shall devour him. For he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become forced labor.

² Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.

¹³ in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

⁴ You will no more be called Forsaken; nor will your land any more be called Desolate; but you will be called My Delight is in her, and your land, Married; for Jehovah delights in you, and your land is married.

³⁶ Why do you go about so much to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

¹⁰ In you they have uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you they have humbled her defiled by impurity. ¹¹ And a man has done abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man has defiled his daughter-in-law in unchaste acts; and a man has humbled within you his sister, his father's daughter.

¹⁴ Therefore, behold, I will lure her and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.

² So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for a homer of barley and a half homer of barley.

¹⁰ They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they despise him who speaks uprightly.

¹² For I know your many transgressions and your many sins. They afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate.

¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

² The pious has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. For they all lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

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

⁸ And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child. And when you have found him, bring me word again so that I may come and worship him also.

¹³ And when they had departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise and take the young child and His mother and flee into Egypt. And be there until I bring you word, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy Him.

²⁸ But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

⁶ Do not give that which is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you.

¹⁷ And they said to Him, We have here only five loaves and two fish.

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples, ² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. ³ Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do. But do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. ⁴ For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers. ⁵ But they do all their works in order to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments. ⁶ And they love the first couch at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and greetings in the market-places, and to be called, Rabbi! Rabbi! by men. ⁸ But you must not be called Rabbi, for One is your teacher, Christ, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And call no one your father on the earth, for One is your Father in Heaven. ¹⁰ Nor be called teachers, for One is your Teacher, even Christ. ¹¹ But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. ¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted. ¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in. ¹⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, saying, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor. ¹⁷ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is a debtor! ¹⁹ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ Therefore whoever shall swear by the altar swears by it, and by all things on it. ²¹ And whoever shall swear by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it. ²² And he who shall swear by Heaven swears by the throne of God, and by Him who sits on it. ²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone. ²⁴ Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also. ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets; ³² and you fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these things shall come on this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I say to you, You shall not see Me from now on until you say, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."

¹³ saying, Say that His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we slept.

²⁵ And his elder son was in the field. And as he came and drew near the house, he heard music and dancing.

²⁹ And answering he said to his father, Lo, these many years I have served you, neither did I transgress your commandment at any time. And yet you never gave me a kid so that I might make merry with my friends.

¹⁶ And He said to those who sold doves, Take these things away from here. Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise.

²⁶ Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, You seek Me not because you saw the miracles, but because you ate the loaves and were filled. ²⁷ Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.

⁵⁰ But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief ones of the city, and raised a persecution against Paul and Barnabas. And they threw them out of their borders.

¹² Therefore many of them believed, and quite a few of honorable Greek women and men.

²⁴ For a certain silversmith named Demetrius was making silver temples of Artemis, providing not a little trade for the craftsmen. ²⁵ And assembling the workmen about such things, he said, Men, you know that from this trade is our wealth. ²⁶ And you see and hear that, not only at Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, he has perverted a huge crowd, saying that those which are made with hands are no gods.

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

¹¹ And he received a sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith while still uncircumcised; so that he might be the father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for righteousness to be imputed to them also;

¹⁸ For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be"). ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ He did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God,

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

⁸ Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them fornicated, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

¹² Brothers, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you. You have not injured me at all.

³ For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

⁵ Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

¹⁵ See that none gives evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue the good, both towards one another and towards all.

¹³ And with it all they also learn to be idle, going around the houses; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.

⁶ But godliness with contentment is great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into the world, and it is clear that we can carry nothing out. ⁸ But having food and clothing, we will be content. ⁹ But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

⁹ But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;