Deuteronomy 12 Cross References - MLV

¹ These are the statutes and the ordinances which you* will observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it all the days that you* live upon the earth. ² You* will surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you* will dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree. ³ And you* will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. And you* will hew down the graven images of their gods and you* will destroy their name out of that place.
⁴ You* will not do so to Jehovah your* God. ⁵ But to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose out of all your* tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you* will seek and there you will come. ⁶ And there you* will bring your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices and your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and your* vows and your* free-will offerings and the first-offspring of your* herd and of your* flock. ⁷ And there you* will eat before Jehovah your* God and you* will rejoice in all that you* put your* hand to, you* and your* households, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.
⁸ You* will not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes. ⁹ For you* are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah your God gives you.
¹⁰ But when you* go over the Jordan and dwell in the land which Jehovah your* God causes you* to inherit and he gives you* rest from all your* enemies all around, so that you* dwell in safety, ¹¹ then it will happen that to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, there you* will bring all that I command you*: your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices, your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and all your* choice vows which you* vow to Jehovah.
¹² And you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God, you* and your* sons and your* daughters and your* men-servants and your* maid-servants and the Levite who is within your* gates–inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you*.
¹³ Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you see, ¹⁴ but in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes. There you will offer your burnt offerings and there you will do all that I command you.
¹⁵ Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the male-deer.
¹⁶ Only you* will not eat the blood. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.
¹⁷ You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the first-offspring of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free-will offerings, nor the heave offering of your hand. ¹⁸ But you will eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates. And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to. ¹⁹ Take heed to yourself that you not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
²⁰ When Jehovah your God will enlarge your border, as he has promised you and you will say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh, you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. ²¹ If the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you and you may eat within your gates, according to all the desire of your soul. ²² Even as the gazelle and as the male-deer is eaten, so you will eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
²³ Only be sure that you not eat the blood. For the blood is the life and you will not eat the life with the flesh. ²⁴ You will not eat it. You will pour it out upon the ground as water. ²⁵ You will not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.
²⁶ Only your holy things which you have and your vows, you will take and go to the place which Jehovah will choose. ²⁷ And you will offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah your God and the blood of your sacrifices will be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah your God and you will eat the flesh.
²⁸ Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you everlasting, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.
²⁹ When Jehovah your God will cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, ³⁰ take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
³¹ You will not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
³² Whatever thing I command you*, that will you* observe to do. You will not add to it, nor diminish from it.

¹ And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you*, to do them, that you* may live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, gives you*. ² You* will not add to the word which I command you*, neither will you* diminish from it, that you* may keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God which I command you*.

⁵ Behold, I have taught you* statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that you* should do so in the midst of the land where you* go in to possess it.

⁹ Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life, but make them known to your sons and your son's sons– ¹⁰ the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, when Jehovah said to me, Assemble the people to me and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth and that they may teach their sons.

¹⁹ And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, you are drawn away and worship them and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

⁴⁵ These are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

¹ Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which Jehovah your* God commanded to teach you*, that you* might do them in the land where you* go over to possess it, ² that you might fear Jehovah your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life and that your days may be prolonged.

¹⁹ Take heed to yourself that you not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

⁴⁰ that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

³³ I will sing to Jehovah as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

² While I live I will praise Jehovah. I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.

²⁴ You will not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works, but you will utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

¹² Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest it is for a snare in the midst of you.
¹³ But you* will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and you* will cut down their Asherim, ¹⁴ for you will worship no other god. For Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. ¹⁵ Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they play the prostitute after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and a man calls you and you eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of their daughters to your sons and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods. ¹⁷ You will make you no molten gods.

⁴¹ And it happened in the morning, that Balak took Balaam and brought him up into the high places of Baal and he saw from there the outmost part of the people.

⁵¹ Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵² then you* will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you* and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places.

⁵ But thus will you* deal with them: You* will break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim and burn their graven images with fire.

²⁵ You* will burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You will not desire the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you are snared by it, for it is an abomination to Jehovah your God. ²⁶ And you will not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it. You will make it an abomination and you will utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

² And you* will make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You* will break down their altars. But you* have not listened to my voice. Why have you* done this?

⁴ And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

¹⁰ And they set up for them pillars and Asherim upon every high hill and under every green tree, ¹¹ and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as the nations did whom Jehovah carried away before them. And they worked wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger.

¹³ And the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the King of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon.

⁶ Moreover Jehovah said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree and there has played the prostitute.

²⁸ For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their sweet aroma and they poured out there their drink offerings. ²⁹ Then I said to them, What does the high place to which you* go mean? So the name of it is called Bamah to this day.

¹³ They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinth trees, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your* daughters play the prostitute and your* brides commit adultery.

¹³ And in all things that I have said to you* take you* heed and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

⁵² then you* will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you* and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places.

¹³ And also he removed Maacah his grandmother from being queen because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

⁴ He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made. For to those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it and he called it Nehushtan.

¹⁴ And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

³ For he took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and hewed down the Asherim,

³ Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land and have set your heart to seek God.

¹ Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and hewed down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, also in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

³ For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the Asherim and the graven images and the molten images.

⁴ Their sorrows will be multiplied who give gifts for another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names upon my lips.

² while their sons remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.

¹⁷ For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth and they will no more be mentioned by their name.

¹⁴ And I will pluck up your Asherim out of the midst of you and I will destroy your cities.

² And it will happen in that day, says Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they will no more be remembered. And I will also cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

¹ And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw a beast ascending out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads and upon his horns ten diadems and names of blasphemy upon his heads.

²³ And you* will not walk in the customs of the nation which I cast out before you*, for they did all these things and therefore I disgusted with them.

³⁰ take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How do these nations serve their gods? Even so I will do likewise.
³¹ You will not do so to Jehovah your God. For every abomination to Jehovah, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

²¹ You will not plant for you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah your God, which you will make for you. ²² Neither will you set up a pillar for you, which Jehovah your God hates.

¹⁸ that they not teach you* to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, so you* would sin against Jehovah your* God.

² Jehovah is my strength and song and he has become my salvation. This is my God and I will praise him, my father's God and I will exalt him.

²² And there I will meet with you. And I will speak with you from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give you in commandment to the sons of Israel.

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the Voice speaking to him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim and he spoke to him.

¹¹ then it will happen that to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, there you* will bring all that I command you*: your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices, your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and all your* choice vows which you* vow to Jehovah.

¹³ Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you see,

² And you will sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

² that you will take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you and you will put it in a basket and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

²⁷ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Jehovah to this day in the place which he should choose.

¹ And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there and the land was subdued before them.

¹⁶ Since the day that I brought out my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there, but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

²⁰ And Jehovah has established his word that he spoke, for I have risen up in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you. How much less this house that I have built!

²⁹ that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof you have said, My name will be there, to listen to the prayer which your servant will pray toward this place.

²¹ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

¹ Then David said, This is the house of Jehovah God and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.

¹² And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

⁶⁸ but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which he loved.

² Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³ Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

¹³ Because Jehovah has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This is my resting place forever. I will dwell here, for I have desired it.

¹ Jehovah says thus, Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. What manner of house will you* build to me and what place will be my rest? ² For all these things my hand has made and all these things came to be, says Jehovah.
But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a crushed spirit and who trembles at my word.

²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say, that in Jerusalem is the place where it is essential to worship.
²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you will be worshiping the Father, neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

⁴⁸ But the Highest is not dwelling in temples made with hands; just-as the prophet says, ⁴⁹ ‘The heaven is my throne and the earth the footstool of my feet. What sort of house will you be building me? says the Lord. Or what is the place of my rest? ⁵⁰ Did my hand not make all these things?’

²⁰ having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone; ²¹ in whom all the building, fitly framed together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; ²² in whom you are also built together into a residence of God in the Spirit.

⁹ because all the fullness of the Deity is dwelling in him bodily.

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of messengers,

¹ And I saw and behold, the Lamb standing upon the Mount Zion and with him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name and the name of his Father written upon their foreheads.

³ Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, ⁴ and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood will be imputed to that man. He has shed blood and that man will be cut off from among his people, ⁵ to the end that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Jehovah. ⁶ And the priest will sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a sweet aroma to Jehovah. ⁷ And they will no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the male-goats, after which they play the prostitute. This will be an everlasting statute to them throughout their genealogy.
⁸ And you will say to them, Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice, ⁹ and does not bring it to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to Jehovah, that man will be cut off from his people.

³² And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to Jehovah. ³³ He will not search whether it is good or bad, neither will he change it. And if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed will be holy; it will not be redeemed.

¹⁵ Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Jehovah, both of man and beast will be your. Nevertheless the firstborn of man you will surely redeem and the first-offspring of unclean beasts you will redeem. ¹⁶ And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old will you redeem, according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary (what is twenty gerahs). ¹⁷ But the first-offspring of an ox, or the first-offspring of a sheep, or the first-offspring of a goat, you will not redeem. They are holy. You will sprinkle their blood upon the altar and will burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma to Jehovah.

¹⁷ You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the first-offspring of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free-will offerings, nor the heave offering of your hand.

²² You will surely tithe all the increase of your seed; what comes forth from the field year by year. ²³ And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
²⁴ And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you, ²⁵ then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose. ²⁶ And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.

¹⁹ All the first-offspring males that are born of your herd and of your flock you will sanctify to Jehovah your God. You will do no work with the first-offspring of your herd, nor shear the first-offspring of your flock.
²⁰ You will eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah will choose, you and your household.

⁴⁰ For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the lord Jehovah, there will all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land. There I will accept them and there I will require your* offerings and the first-fruits of your* oblations, with all your* holy things.

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet you* rob me. But you* say, How have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings.

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house and prove me now with this, says Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open to you* the windows of heaven and pour you* out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for it.

⁴² But woe to you Pharisees! Because you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and are passing over justice and the love of God. It was essential to have practiced these things and to not leave the other things undone.

¹² I fast twice in the week; I tithe of all things, as many things as I procure.

⁴⁰ And you* will take to you* on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook and you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God seven days.

¹² And you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God, you* and your* sons and your* daughters and your* men-servants and your* maid-servants and the Levite who is within your* gates–inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you*.

¹⁸ But you will eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates. And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to.

²³ And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.

²⁶ And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.

²⁰ You will eat it before Jehovah your God year by year in the place which Jehovah will choose, you and your household.

¹¹ And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, ¹² and you will remember that you were a bondman in Egypt. And you will observe and do these statutes.
¹³ You will keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress. ¹⁴ And you will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.
¹⁵ Seven days you will keep a feast to Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah will choose, because Jehovah your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands and you will be altogether joyful.

¹¹ And you will rejoice in all the good which Jehovah your God has given to you and to your house, you and the Levite and the traveler who is in the midst of you.

⁷ And you will sacrifice peace offerings and will eat there and you will rejoice before Jehovah your God.

¹ All who fear Jehovah are fortunate, who walk in his ways. ² Because you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be fortunate and it will be well with you.

¹⁸ And her merchandise and her pay will be holiness to Jehovah. It will not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, to eat sufficiently and for durable clothing.

¹³ And this again you* do: You* cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your* hand.

⁴⁶ And persevering, united in the temple and breaking bread, house to house, they were taking their nourishment in gladness and simplicity of heart,

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice.

³⁹ And it will be to you* for a hem, that you* may look upon it and remember all the commandments of Jehovah and do them and that you* not follow after your* own heart and your* own eyes, after which you* use to play the prostitute,

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was right in his own eyes.

²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was right in his own eyes.

² Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Jehovah weighs the hearts.

²⁵ Did you* bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

⁴² But God turned and gave them up to give-divine service to the army of heaven; just-as it has been written in the book of the prophets, ‘You did not offer slaughtered beasts and sacrifices to me for forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel, did you?

¹⁹ Therefore it will be, when Jehovah your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. You will not forget.

⁵⁶ Praise Jehovah, who has given rest to his people Israel according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

²⁵ For David said, Jehovah, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people and he dwells in Jerusalem until everlasting.

¹¹ Therefore I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

¹⁰ Arise and depart, for this is not your* resting-place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

⁸ For if Joshua had given-rest to them, he would have not been speaking concerning another day after these things. ⁹ Consequently, a Sabbath-rest is left for the people of God.

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who according to his much mercy has born us again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ⁴ into an incorruptible, undefiled and unfading inheritance having been guarded in the heavens for you;

¹⁸ Therefore you* will do my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them and you* will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹ And the land will yield its fruit and you* will eat your* fill and dwell in safety in it.

²⁷ You get up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold with your eyes, for you will not go over this Jordan.

²² but I must die in this land. I must not go over the Jordan, but you* will go over and possess that good land.

¹ Hear, O Israel: You are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

³¹ For you* are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your* God gives you* and you* will possess it and dwell in it.

¹² Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Jehovah will dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long and he dwells between his shoulders.

²⁸ And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.

¹⁷ And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

¹² And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the sons of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

¹² Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Jehovah has helped us to now.

²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

⁸ I will both lie down and sleep in peace, because you, Jehovah, alone make me dwell in safety.

³³ But he who listens to me will dwell securely and will be quiet without fear of evil.

⁶ In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will dwell safely. And this is his name by which he will be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

³⁷ Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger and in my wrath and in great indignation. And I will bring them again to this place and I will cause them to dwell safely.

¹¹ the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Jehovah of hosts, for Jehovah is good, for his loving kindness is everlasting and of those who bring thanksgiving into the house of Jehovah. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Jehovah.

²⁶ And they will dwell securely in it. Yes, they will build houses and plant vineyards and will dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those who do them spite all around them.
And they will know that I am Jehovah their God.

²⁵ And I will make a covenant of peace with them and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land and they will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

²⁸ And they will no more be a prey to the nations, nor will the beasts of the earth devour them, but they will dwell securely and none will make them afraid.

⁸ After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste, but it is brought forth out of the peoples and they will dwell securely, all of them.

⁵ But to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose out of all your* tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation you* will seek and there you will come.

¹⁴ but in the place which Jehovah will choose in one of your tribes. There you will offer your burnt offerings and there you will do all that I command you.

²¹ If the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you and you may eat within your gates, according to all the desire of your soul.

²⁶ Only your holy things which you have and your vows, you will take and go to the place which Jehovah will choose.

² And you will sacrifice the Passover to Jehovah your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
³ You will eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. ⁴ And there will be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days. Neither will any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.
⁵ You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, ⁶ but at the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you will sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. ⁷ And you will roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah your God will choose and you will turn in the morning and go to your tents. ⁸ Six days you will eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to Jehovah your God. You will do no work.

⁸ If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you will arise and get you up to the place which Jehovah your God will choose.

⁶ And if a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he travels and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Jehovah will choose,

¹⁶ He will dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he will choose within one of your gates, where it pleases him best. You will not oppress him.

¹¹ when all Israel has come to appear before Jehovah your God in the place which he will choose, you will read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

¹³ I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in everlasting.

¹² But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say, that in Jerusalem is the place where it is essential to worship.
²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you will be worshiping the Father, neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will be worshiping the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father also is seeking such who are worshiping him.

²⁰ And Jehovah said to Aaron, You will have no inheritance in their land, neither will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the sons of Israel.

²³ But the Levites will do the service of the tent of meeting and they will bear their iniquity. It will be an everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy. And among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.
²⁴ For the tithe of the sons of Israel, which they offer as a heave offering to Jehovah, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, Among the sons of Israel they will have no inheritance.

²⁶ Moreover you will speak to the Levites and say to them, When you* take from the sons of Israel the tithe which I have given you* from them for your* inheritance, then you* will offer up a heave offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.

⁹ Therefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brothers. Jehovah is his inheritance, just-as Jehovah your God spoke to him.)

⁷ And there you* will eat before Jehovah your* God and you* will rejoice in all that you* put your* hand to, you* and your* households, in which Jehovah your God has blessed you.

²⁶ And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.
²⁷ And the Levite who is within your gates, you will not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

²⁹ And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates, will come and will eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

¹¹ And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there,

¹⁴ And you will rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.

¹ The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, will have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They will eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire and his inheritance. ² And they will have no inheritance among their brothers. Jehovah is their inheritance as he has spoken to them.

¹² When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you will give it to the Levite, to the traveler, to the fatherless and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

¹⁴ Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance. The offerings of Jehovah, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance as he spoke to him.

³³ But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Jehovah, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

⁴ For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And they gave no portion to the Levites in the land except cities to dwell in with the suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.

⁶⁶ On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the king and went to their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Jehovah had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.

³⁶ And Hezekiah rejoiced and all the people, because of what God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

²¹ And the sons of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness. And the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day, with loud instruments to Jehovah. ²² And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Jehovah. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
²³ And the whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days. And they kept those seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers gave to the assembly a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests made themselves holy. ²⁵ And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came out of Israel and the travelers who came out of the land of Israel and who dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem. For since the time of Solomon the son of David King of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your* way, eat fat things and drink sweet things and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be you* grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your* strength.
¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be you* grieved. ¹² And all the people went their way to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great gladness, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

¹ Shout to Jehovah, all you* lands. ² Serve Jehovah with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

¹ Praise Jehovah, because it is good to sing praises to our God. Because it is pleasant and praise is becoming.

³ What we have seen and have heard, we report to you, in order that you may also have fellowship with us, but also our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ; ⁴ and we are writing these things, in order that our joy may be fulfilled.

² Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded, saying, ³ Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp, ⁴ and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation to Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah, blood will be imputed to that man. He has shed blood and that man will be cut off from among his people, ⁵ to the end that the sons of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them to Jehovah, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Jehovah.

⁶ And there you* will bring your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices and your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and your* vows and your* free-will offerings and the first-offspring of your* herd and of your* flock.

²⁸ Upon it the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you* to go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. ²⁹ And he set the one in Bethel and the other he put in Dan. ³⁰ And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one, even to Dan. ³¹ And he made houses of high places and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.
³² And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah and he went up to the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

³⁴ And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.

¹⁷ But the high places were not taken away out of Israel. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

⁷ But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will worship toward your holy temple in your fear.

¹¹ Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion. Declare among the people his practices.

¹⁹ as that, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ not counting to them their trespasses and having placed the word of reconciliation in us.

¹⁹ Therefore brethren, having boldness for the entrance into the holy-places by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ a way which he inaugurated for us, a fresh and living way, through the curtain, that is, his flesh; ²¹ and having a great priest over the house of God; ²² let us come near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts having been sprinkled away from an evil conscience and our body, having been fully-washed in clean water.

¹⁵ Therefore, let us always offer up a sacrifice of praising through him to God, that is, the fruit of our lips confessing in his name.

²⁰ When Jehovah your God will enlarge your border, as he has promised you and you will say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh, you may eat flesh, after all the desire of your soul. ²¹ If the place which Jehovah your God will choose, to put his name there, be too far from you, then you will kill of your herd and of your flock, which Jehovah has given you, as I have commanded you and you may eat within your gates, according to all the desire of your soul. ²² Even as the gazelle and as the male-deer is eaten, so you will eat of it. The unclean and the clean may eat of it alike.
²³ Only be sure that you not eat the blood. For the blood is the life and you will not eat the life with the flesh.

⁵ the male-deer and the gazelle and the roebuck and the wild goat and the ibex and the antelope and the chamois.

²² You will eat it within your gates. The unclean man and the clean man alike, as the gazelle and as the male-deer.
²³ Only you will not eat the blood of it. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.

⁴ But you* will not eat flesh in its life, that is its blood.

²⁶ And you* will eat no manner of blood, whether it is of bird or of beast, in any of your* dwellings. ²⁷ Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul will be cut off from his people.

¹⁰ And whatever man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people. ¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you* upon the altar to make atonement for your* souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life. ¹² Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, No soul of you* will eat blood, nor will any stranger that travels among you* eat blood. ¹³ And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he will pour out the blood of it and cover it with dust.

²³ Only be sure that you not eat the blood. For the blood is the life and you will not eat the life with the flesh. ²⁴ You will not eat it. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.

²³ Only you will not eat the blood of it. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.

²⁹ that you abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keeping yourselves away from these things; you will be practicing well.
Good-bye.

⁴ because every created thing of God is good and casting off nothing if it is received with thanksgiving,

³⁰ And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is Jehovah's; it is holy to Jehovah. ³¹ And if a man will redeem any of his tithe, he will add to it the fifth part of it. ³² And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth will be holy to Jehovah.

²¹ And to the sons of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.
²² And hereafter the sons of Israel will not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

²² You will surely tithe all the increase of your seed; what comes forth from the field year by year. ²³ And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
²⁴ And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you, ²⁵ then you will turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and will go to the place which Jehovah your God will choose. ²⁶ And you will bestow the money for whatever your soul desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. And you will eat there before Jehovah your God and you will rejoice, you and your household.
²⁷ And the Levite who is within your gates, you will not forsake him, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you. ²⁸ At the end of every three years you will bring forth all the tithe of your increase in the same year and will lay it up within your gates.
²⁹ And the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you and the traveler and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates, will come and will eat and be satisfied, that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

¹⁴ I have not eaten of it in my mourning, neither have I put away from it, being unclean, nor given of it for the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.

¹¹ then it will happen that to the place which Jehovah your* God will choose to cause his name to dwell there, there you* will bring all that I command you*: your* burnt offerings and your* sacrifices, your* tithes and the heave offering of your* hand and all your* choice vows which you* vow to Jehovah.
¹² And you* will rejoice before Jehovah your* God, you* and your* sons and your* daughters and your* men-servants and your* maid-servants and the Levite who is within your* gates–inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you*.

¹¹ Be glad in Jehovah and rejoice, you*, righteous ones. And shout for joy, all you* who are upright in heart.

³ But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.

³ Therefore with joy you* will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

³⁴ And he led them up into his house and placed a table before them, and was glad with all his household, all having believed in God.

³¹ Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or if you are doing anything, do all to the glory of God.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

¹ Furthermore, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. Indeed, it is not tedious for me to write the same things to you, but a secure thing for you. ² Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the mutilation. ³ For we are the circumcision, who are giving-divine service in the spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

¹³ And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border. ¹⁴ For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession and came to Judah and Jerusalem. For Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office to Jehovah.

⁴ Moreover he commanded the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.
⁵ And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the sons of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine and oil and honey and of all the increase of the field. And they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly. ⁶ And the sons of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God and laid them by heaps. ⁷ In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps and finished them in the seventh month.
⁸ And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed Jehovah and his people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. ¹⁰ And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since they began to bring the oblations into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left. For Jehovah has blessed his people and what is left is this great store.
¹¹ Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah and they prepared them. ¹² And they brought in the oblations and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully. And Conaniah the Levite was ruler over them and Shimei his brother was second.
¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
¹⁴ And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east gate, was over the free-will offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Jehovah and the most holy things.
¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small, ¹⁶ besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone that entered into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions, ¹⁷ and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions, ¹⁸ and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives and their sons and their daughters, through all the congregation. For in their office of trust they made themselves holy in holiness.
¹⁹ Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
²⁰ And thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah. And he worked what was good and right and faithful before Jehovah his God. ²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God and in the law and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.

³⁴ And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law, ³⁵ and to bring the first-fruits of our ground and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Jehovah, ³⁶ also the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law and the first-offspring of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, ³⁷ and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough and our heave offerings and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
³⁸ And the priest the son of Aaron will be with the Levites when the Levites take tithes. And the Levites will bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure-house. ³⁹ For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi will bring the heave offering of the grain, of the new wine and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary and the priests that minister and the gatekeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our God.

¹⁰ Or does he certainly say it because of us? For it was written because of us, that the one who is plowing ought to plow in hope, and the one who is threshing ought to thresh in hope to partake of his hope.
¹¹ If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a big thing if we will be reaping your fleshly things? ¹² If others are partaking of this authority over you, do we not more? But we did not use this authority, but we are forbearing all things, in order that we should not give any hindrance to the good-news of the Christ. ¹³ Do you not know that those who work at the sacred things, eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait-upon the altar have their part together with the altar? ¹⁴ So, the Lord also commanded that those who are proclaiming the good-news, to live out of the good-news.

¹⁸ In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: ¹⁹ the Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite ²⁰ and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim ²¹ and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.

¹⁴ And your seed will be as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed in you and in your seed.

³⁰ And now, though you have certainly gone, because you have been very desirous for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

³¹ And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your* hand and you will drive them out before you.

²⁴ For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders. Neither will any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.

⁴ And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly. And the sons of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?

²⁰ but a whole month, until it comes out at your* nostrils and it is loathsome to you*, because you* have rejected Jehovah who is among you* and have wept before him, saying, Why did we come forth out of Egypt?

³⁴ And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

²⁴ Every place on which the sole of your* foot will tread will be yours*, from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea will be your* border.

¹⁵ Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the male-deer.

⁸ And if Jehovah your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers,

³⁹ And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom, for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

¹⁵ And David longed and said, Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!

¹⁰ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed and enlarge my border and that your hand might be with me and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! And God granted him what he requested.

¹ O God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

² My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out to the living God.

⁹ Because he satisfies the longing soul and he fills the hungry soul with good,

²⁰ My soul breaks for the longing that it has to your ordinances at all times.

⁴⁰ Behold, I have longed after your precepts. Give me life in your righteousness.

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, O Jehovah and your law is my delight.

¹⁴ and in their supplication on your behalf, a longing-for you because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I am longing-for all of you in the affections of Christ Jesus.

²⁶ since he was longing-for you all, and was disheartened because you had heard that he was sick.

²⁴ An altar of earth you will make to me and will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

²³ And you will eat before Jehovah your God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine and of your oil and the first-offspring of your herd and of your flock, that you may learn to fear Jehovah your God always.
²⁴ And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God will choose to set his name there when Jehovah your God will bless you,

⁶ but at the place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell in, there you will sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt.

¹³ So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

¹² And the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who will put forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree, let it be done with all diligence.

¹⁵ Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah your God which he has given you, the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the male-deer.
¹⁶ Only you* will not eat the blood. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.

¹⁶ And the priest will burn them upon the altar. It is the food of the offering made by fire, for a sweet aroma. All the fat is Jehovah's. ¹⁷ It will be a everlasting statute throughout your* genealogy in all your* dwellings, that you* will eat neither fat nor blood.

¹¹ For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you* upon the altar to make atonement for your* souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

¹³ And whatever man there is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that journey among them, who takes any beast or bird in hunting that may be eaten, he will pour out the blood of it and cover it with dust. ¹⁴ For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is with the life of it. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, You* will eat the blood of no manner of flesh, for the life of all flesh is the blood of it. Whoever eats it will be cut off.

¹⁶ Only you* will not eat the blood. You will pour it out upon the ground as water.

²⁸ just-like the Son of Man did not come to be served to, but to serve and to give his life as a redemption in exchange-for many.

⁹ And they are singing a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered and bought us in your blood for God out of every tribe and language and people and nation.

²⁶ And he said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of Jehovah your God and will do what is right in his eyes and will listen to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you, which I have put upon the Egyptians, because I am Jehovah who heals you.

⁴⁰ And you will keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, forever.

¹⁶ Honor your father and your mother, as Jehovah your God commanded you, that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land which Jehovah your God gives you.

¹⁸ And you will do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore to your fathers,

²⁸ Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you everlasting, when you do what is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

¹⁸ when you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah your God.

³⁸ And it will be, if you will listen to all that I command you and will walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did. That I will be with you and will build you a sure house as I built for David and will give Israel to you.

² His seed will be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

²⁶ Because to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives tasks to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

¹⁰ Say you* of the righteous, that it is well, for they will eat the fruit of their practices.

¹⁸ Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been as a river and your righteousness as the waves of the sea. ¹⁹ Your seed also would have been as the sand and the offspring of your guts like the grains of it. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

²⁵ Therefore say to them, The lord Jehovah says thus: You* eat with the blood and lift up your* eyes to your* idols and shed blood. And will you* possess the land?

²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and garments to put on,

¹⁸ Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, Whoever he is of the house of Israel, or of the travelers in Israel, who offers his oblation, whether it is any of their vows, or any of their free-will offerings, which they offer to Jehovah for a burnt offering, ¹⁹ that you* may be accepted, you* will offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
²⁰ But whatever has a blemish, that you* will not offer, for it will not be acceptable for you*. ²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah to accomplish a vow, or for a free-will offering, of the herd or of the flock, it will be perfect to be accepted; there will be no blemish in it. ²² Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a skin tumor, or scurvy, or scabbed, you* will not offer these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to Jehovah. ²³ Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free-will offering, but it will not be accepted for a vow. ²⁴ What has its testicles bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, you* will not offer to Jehovah, neither will you* do thus in your* land. ²⁵ Neither from the hand of a foreigner will you* offer the bread of your* God of any of these, because their corruption is in them; there is a blemish in them. They will not be accepted for you*.
²⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁷ When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it will be seven days under the dam and from the eighth day and after that it will be accepted for the oblation of an offering made by fire to Jehovah. ²⁸ And whether it is cow or ewe, you* will not kill it and its young both in one day. ²⁹ And when you* sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, you* will sacrifice it that you* may be accepted. ³⁰ It will be eaten on the same day. You* will leave none of it until the morning. I am Jehovah.
³¹ Therefore you* will keep my commandments and do them. I am Jehovah. ³² And you* will not profane my holy name, but I will be made holy among the sons of Israel. I am Jehovah who sanctifies you*, ³³ who brought you* out of the land of Egypt, to be your* God. I am Jehovah.

⁹ And every heave offering of all the holy things of the sons of Israel, which they present to the priest, will be his. ¹⁰ And every man's holy things will be his. Whatever any man gives the priest, it will be his.

¹⁹ All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the sons of Israel offer to Jehovah, I have given you and your sons and your daughters with you, as an everlasting portion. It is a covenant of salt forever before Jehovah to you and to your seed with you.

¹⁷ You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or of your oil, or the first-offspring of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your free-will offerings, nor the heave offering of your hand. ¹⁸ But you will eat them before Jehovah your God in the place which Jehovah your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your man-servant and your maid-servant and the Levite who is within your gates. And you will rejoice before Jehovah your God in all that you put your hand to.

²¹ And the man Elkanah and all his house, went up to offer to Jehovah the yearly sacrifice and his vow. ²² But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, Not until the child be weaned and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Jehovah and abide there everlasting. ²³ And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems good to you. Remain until you have weaned him, only Jehovah establish his word. So the woman remained and gave her son suck, until she weaned him.
²⁴ And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks and one ephah of meal and a jug of wine and brought him to the house of Jehovah in Shiloh and the child was young.

¹³ I will come into your house with burnt offerings. I will pay you my vows, ¹⁴ which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. ¹⁵ I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat ones, with the incense of rams. I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.

⁵ And he will kill the bullock before Jehovah and Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle the blood all around upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.

⁹ but its innards and its legs he will wash with water. And the priest will burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.

¹³ but the innards and the legs he will wash with water. And the priest will offer the whole and burn it upon the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Jehovah.

³⁰ And the priest will take of the blood of it with his finger and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering and all the blood of it he will pour out at the base of the altar.

¹¹ Observe you what I command you this day. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

³⁷ And you* will observe all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them. I am Jehovah.

²⁵ You will not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your sons after you, when you will do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁸ Take heed in the disease of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites will teach you*. As I commanded them, so you* will observe to do.

¹⁷ And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked and do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my statutes and mine ordinances,

⁵ and said, I beseech you, O Jehovah, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise Jehovah.

²⁴ And my servant David will be king over them and they all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances and observe my statutes and do them.

³ Already you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will be abiding in my love; just-as I have kept my Father’s commandments and am abiding in his love.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you practice as many things as I command you.

²³ For my messenger will go before you and bring you in to the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite, the Hivite and the Jebusite and I will cut them off.

³ Know therefore this day, that Jehovah your God is he who goes over before you as a devouring fire. He will destroy them and he will bring them down before you. So you will drive them out and make them to perish quickly, as Jehovah has spoken to you.

¹ When Jehovah your God will cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah your God gives you and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,

⁴ Behold, I have allotted to you* these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your* tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.

⁵⁵ He also drove out the nations before them and allotted them for an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

³¹ And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines and from the wilderness to the River. For I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your* hand and you will drive them out before you.
³² You will make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. ³³ They will not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, because if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

³ You* will not do after the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you* dwelt and you* will not do after the practices of the land of Canaan, where I bring you*, nor will you* walk in their statutes.

¹⁶ And you will consume all the peoples that Jehovah your God will deliver to you. Your eye will not pity them. Neither will you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

² And you* will make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You* will break down their altars. But you* have not listened to my voice. Why have you* done this?
³ Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you*, but they will be as thorns in your* sides and their gods will be a snare to you*.

¹⁵ And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity and became vain and went after the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them, ³⁵ but mingled themselves with the nations and learned their works, ³⁶ and served their idols, which became a snare to them.
³⁷ Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, ³⁸ and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the land was polluted with blood.

² Jehovah says thus: Learn not the way of the nations and do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the nations are dismayed at them.

²⁸ For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every thick tree and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their sweet aroma and they poured out there their drink offerings.

³² And what comes into your* mind will not be at all, in that you* say, We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

² And not to fashion yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your mind, that you may be proving in you what is the will of God: the good and acceptable and mature.

¹⁷ Therefore I am saying and testifying this in the Lord: you are to walk no longer as the rest of the Gentiles are also walking, in the futility of their mind,

³ For enough time which has passed away from our life is for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, and having conducted-ourselves in: unbridled-lusts, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinking-bouts and illegal idolatries; ⁴ in which they are surprised by you, that you^\'b0 are not running together with them into the same outpouring of riotousness, blaspheming;

² You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

²¹ And you will not give any of your seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech, neither will you profane the name of your God. I am Jehovah.

²⁶ You* therefore will keep my statutes and my ordinances and will not do any of these abominations, neither the home-born, nor the stranger that travels among you*, ²⁷ (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you* and the land is defiled), ²⁸ that the land not vomit you* out also, when you* defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you*. ²⁹ For whoever will do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them will be cut off from among their people. ³⁰ Therefore you* will keep my charge, that you* not practice any of these abominable customs, which were practiced before you* and that you* not defile yourselves in it. I am Jehovah your* God.

² Moreover, you will say to the sons of Israel, Whoever he is of the sons of Israel, or of the strangers that journey in Israel, who gives of his seed to Molech, he will surely be put to death. The people of the land will stone him with stones.

⁵ Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land, but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah your God drives them out from before you and that he may establish the word which Jehovah swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.

⁴ You* will not do so to Jehovah your* God.

⁹ When you have come into the land, which Jehovah your God gives you, you will not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.
¹⁰ There will not be found with you anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices soothsaying, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

¹⁵ And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified to them. And they followed vanity and became vain and went after the nations that were all around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.
¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of Jehovah their God and made for them molten images, even two calves and made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and enchantments and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of Jehovah to provoke him to anger.

² And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the sons of Israel.

² And he did what was evil in the sight of Jehovah after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the sons of Israel.

¹⁴ Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

³¹ And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

³⁵ And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

³¹ And when you* offer your* gifts, when you* make your* sons to pass through the fire, do you* pollute yourselves with all your* idols to this day? And shall I be inquired of by you*, O house of Israel? As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you*.

²⁷ Thus I will make your lewdness to cease from you and your prostitution from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.

⁷ Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

² You* will not add to the word which I command you*, neither will you* diminish from it, that you* may keep the commandments of Jehovah your* God which I command you*.

⁷ Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from it, neither to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

⁶ Do not add to his words, lest he reprove you and you are found a liar.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

¹⁸ I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone should add onto them, God might add onto him the wounds which have been written in this book. ¹⁹ And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God takes away his part from the Tree of Life and out of the holy city, which have been written in this book.