Exodus 18 Cross References - MLV

¹ Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.
² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, because he said, I have been a traveler in a foreign land. ⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, because he said, The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
⁵ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mountain of God. ⁶ And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you and your wife and her two sons with her. ⁷ And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed-down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and they came into the tent. ⁸ And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way and how Jehovah delivered them.
⁹ And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians. ¹⁰ And Jethro said, Praise Jehovah, who has delivered you* out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. ¹¹ Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods, yes, in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them.
¹² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. And Aaron came and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.
¹³ And it happened on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people and the people stood about Moses from the morning to the evening. ¹⁴ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that you do to the people? Why do you sit by yourself and all the people stand about you from morning to evening?
¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God. ¹⁶ When they have a matter, they come to me and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.
¹⁷ And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you do is not good. ¹⁸ You will surely wear away, both you and this people that is with you, because the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel and God be with you. You be a leader for the people toward God and bring you the cases to God. ²⁰ And you will teach them the statutes and the laws and will show them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do.
²¹ Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens, ²² and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves. So it will be easier for yourself and they will bear the burden with you.
²³ If you will do this thing and God command you so, then you will be able to endure and all this people also will go to their place in peace.
²⁴ So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said. ²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens, ²⁶ and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.
²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law depart and he went his way into his own land.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

¹⁸ And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you* have come so soon today?

²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

¹ Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the wilderness and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

¹⁸ And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, Let me go, I beseech you and return to my brothers who are in Egypt and see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

¹ And Jehovah said to Moses, See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. ² You will speak all that I command you and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.
³ And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ But Pharaoh will not listen to you*. And I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my armies, my people the sons of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments. ⁵ And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from among them.
⁶ And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded them, so they did. ⁷ And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
⁸ And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, ⁹ When Pharaoh will speak to you*, saying, Show a wonder for you*, then you will say to Aaron, Take your rod and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent. ¹⁰ And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh. And they did so, as Jehovah had commanded and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent.
¹¹ Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. And they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments. ¹² For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents, but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods. ¹³ And Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had spoken.
¹⁴ And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go. ¹⁵ You get to Pharaoh in the morning behold, he goes out to the water and you will stand by the river's edge to meet him and the rod which was turned to a serpent you will take in your hand.

²⁹ And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it to you*. You come with us and we will do you good, for Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel.

¹⁰ For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you* when you* came out of Egypt and what you* did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you* utterly destroyed.

⁹ And they said to him, From a very far country. Your servants have come because of the name of Jehovah your God, for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt,

¹¹ Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

¹⁰ and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them and got you a name, as it is this day. ¹¹ And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land. And you cast their pursuers into the depths as a stone into the mighty waters.

² My soul will make its boast in Jehovah. The humble will hear of it and be glad.

¹ We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of long-ago.

¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders. You have made known your strength among the peoples. ¹⁵ You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

⁴ We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.

⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, ⁵¹ and killed* all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
⁵² But he led forth his own people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³ And he led them safely, so that they did not fear, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

³⁶ He also killed* all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
³⁷ And he brought them forth with silver and gold and there was not a feeble soul among his tribes. ³⁸ Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them had fallen upon them.
³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night. ⁴⁰ They asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹ He opened the rock and waters gushed out. They ran in the dry places like a river.

⁴³ And he brought out his people with joy and his chosen with singing.

² Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or show forth all his praise?

⁸ Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
⁹ He also rebuked the Red Sea and it was dried up. So he led them through the depths as through a wilderness. ¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹ And the waters covered their adversaries; there was not one of them left.

¹⁰ to him who killed* Egypt in their firstborn, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹¹ and brought out Israel from among them, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹² with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹³ to him who divided the Red Sea apart, because loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁴ and made Israel to pass through the midst of it, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁵ but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, because his loving kindness is everlasting,
¹⁶ to him who led his people through the wilderness, because his loving kindness is everlasting,

¹¹ Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his holy Spirit in the midst of them, ¹² who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name, ¹³ who led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?

⁹ And this city will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.

²³ Jehovah of hosts says thus: In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you*, for we have heard that God is with you*.

³⁵ This Moses whom they deny, having said, Who designated you a ruler and a justice? God sent this one as a ruler and a redeemer by the hand of the messenger who was seen by him in the bush. ³⁶ This one led them out, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

²⁷ Now when they came and gathered the congregation together, they reported how-much God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.

¹² Now all the multitude was silent, and they were hearing Barnabas and Paul describing how-much God did, in signs and wonders, among the Gentiles through them.

¹⁹ And having greeted them, he was describing one by one each of the things God had done among the Gentiles through his service. ²⁰ Now when they heard it, they were glorifying the Lord, having said to him, You are now viewing brother, how many tens of thousands there are of the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous ones of the law;

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of anything of the things which Christ did not work through me, except for the obedience of the Gentiles, in word and works,

²³ but they were only hearing that, He who previously persecuted us is now proclaiming the good-news of the faith of which he was previously making havoc. ²⁴ And they were glorifying God with me.

²⁵ Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet. And she said, Surely a bridegroom of blood you are to me. ²⁶ So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood you are, because of the circumcision.

²² And she bore a son and he called his name Gershom, because he said, I have been a traveler in a foreign land.

²⁰ And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon a donkey and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

¹² Hear my prayer, O Jehovah and listen to my cry. Do not keep silent at my tears, because I am a stranger with you, a traveler, as all my fathers were.

²⁹ But at this speech, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where two sons were born to him.

¹³ These all died according to faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and having greeted them from farther out and having confessed that they are strangers and travelers upon the earth.

¹¹ Beloved, I am encouraging you, as foreigners and travelers, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which are warring against the soul;

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well.

¹⁵ The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.

¹ I love you, O Jehovah, my strength.

⁴⁸ He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

⁴ I sought Jehovah and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

⁷ For the lord Jehovah will help me.
Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint and I know that I will not be put to shame. ⁸ He is near who justifies me. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. ⁹ Behold, the lord Jehovah will help me. Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, all they will grow old as a garment; the moth will eat them up.

²² My God has sent his messenger and has shut the lions' mouths and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

¹¹ And Peter, came to himself, said, Now I truly know, that the Lord has sent forth his messenger and liberated me out of the hand of Herod and all the expectation of the people of the Jews.

⁸ For brethren, we do not wish you to be ignorant in regard to our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened down surpassingly, beyond our power, so-that we despaired even to be living. ⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing us.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood beside me and empowered me; in order that the preaching might be fully assured through me and in order that all the Gentiles might hear and I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

⁶ So-that we, being courageous, may say, The Lord is my helper and I will not be fearing. What will man be doing for me?

¹² And he said, I will certainly be with you. And this will be the sign to you, that I have sent you: When you have brought out the people out of Egypt, you* will serve God upon this mountain.

¹¹ and be ready for the third day, because the third day Jehovah will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.

²⁰ And Jehovah came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses went up.

¹⁶ And the glory of Jehovah abode upon Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷ And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

⁸ And he arose and ate and drank and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb the mountain of God.

¹⁷ And the King of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (what is the King's Valley).

² And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself to the earth

¹ And the two messengers came to Sodom in the evening and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them and rose up to meet them. And he bowed himself with his face to the earth

¹³ And it happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

²⁸ and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

³ And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
⁴ And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept. ⁵ And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your servant.
⁶ Then the handmaids came near, they and their children and they bowed themselves. ⁷ And Leah also and her children came near and bowed themselves. And afterward Joseph came near and Rachel and they bowed themselves.

²⁷ And he asked them of their welfare and said, Is your* father well, the old man of whom you* spoke? Is he yet alive? ²⁸ And they said, Your servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And they bowed the head and then bowed-down to him.

¹⁵ And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.

²⁹ And Joseph made his chariot ready and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen. And he presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

³⁶ And when Balak heard that Balaam came, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the outmost part of the border.

³⁴ And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. And she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

⁷ And when Uriah came to him, David asked of him how Joab did and how the people fared and how the war prospered.

¹⁹ Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her and sat down on his throne and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother. And she sat on his right hand.

¹² Kiss the Son, lest he is angry and you* perish in the way, because his wrath will soon be kindled. All those who take refuge in him are fortunate.

⁴⁵ You gave me no kiss, but, from the time I came in she has continually kissed my feet.

³⁷ But there became considerable weeping from all, and having fallen upon Paul’s neck, they were kissing him,

¹⁵ And the brethren from there, when they heard things concerning us, came to the encounter with us out to the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns; whom having seen, Paul thanked God and took courage.

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man is not with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father.

⁶ Your right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power. Your right hand, O Jehovah, dashes the enemy in pieces.

¹⁶ Terror and dread falls upon them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone, till your people pass over, O Jehovah, till the people pass over whom you have purchased.

²² And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. ²³ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, because they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What will we drink?

³ And the sons of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread to the full, because you* have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

¹ Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how that Jehovah had brought Israel out of Egypt.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the King of Edom, Thus says your brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen us,

⁹ And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry by the Red Sea, ¹⁰ and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them and got you a name, as it is this day. ¹¹ And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land. And you cast their pursuers into the depths as a stone into the mighty waters. ¹² Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
¹³ You also came down upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, ¹⁴ and made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law, by Moses your servant.
¹⁵ And you gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought out water for them out of the rock for their thirst and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

³² Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, do not let all the travail seem little before you, that has come upon us, on our kings, on our rulers and on our priests and on our prophets and on our fathers and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.

¹⁶ Come and hear, all you* who fear God and I will declare what he has done for my soul.

¹⁷ O God, you have taught me from my youth and I have declared your wondrous works until now.
¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not, until I have declared your strength to a generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
¹⁹ Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, you who have done great things. O God, who is like you? ²⁰ You, who have shown us many and great troubles, will revive us again and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

⁴² They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary, ⁴³ how he set his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan,

⁷ You called in trouble and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

¹ O give thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name. Make known among the peoples his practices. ² Sing to him, sing praises to him. Talk of all his marvelous works.

¹⁰ And he saved them from the hand of him who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

² Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

⁴ One generation will laud your works to another and will declare your mighty acts.
⁵ I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor and of your wondrous works.
⁶ And men will speak of the might of your fearful acts and I will declare your greatness. ⁷ They will pour out the memory of your great goodness and will sing of your righteousness.
⁸ Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving kindness. ⁹ Jehovah is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works.
¹⁰ All your works will give thanks to you, O Jehovah and your holy ones will praise you.
¹¹ They will speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power, ¹² to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

²³ Sing, O you* heavens, for Jehovah has done it. Shout, you* lower parts of the earth. Break forth into singing, you* mountains, O forest and every tree in it. For Jehovah has redeemed Jacob and will glorify himself in Israel.

¹⁰ Rejoice you* with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all you* who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you* who mourn over her,

¹⁰ Be tenderly loving to one another in the love of the brethren; being the leader for one another in honor;

¹⁵ Ready to rejoice with the ones rejoicing and to weep with the ones weeping.

²⁶ And if one member is suffering, all the members are suffering together with it. If one member is glorified, all the members are rejoicing together with it.

²⁰ And praise God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand. And Abram gave him a tenth of all.

²⁸ And Ahimaaz called and said to the king, All is well. And he bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth and said, Praise Jehovah your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

¹⁵ And he said, Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David my father and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

¹³ Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Truly and Truly.

¹⁹ Praise the Lord, who bears our burden daily, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.
²⁰ God is to us a God of deliverance and escape from death belongs to Jehovah the Lord.

⁴⁷ Save us, O Jehovah our God and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name and to triumph in your praise.
⁴⁸ Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. And let all the people say, Truly. Praise Jehovah.

⁶⁸ The Lord, the God of Israel is gracious. Because he has visited and made redemption for his people,

³ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is gracious, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

⁹ For what thanksgiving are we able to repay to God concerning you? Over all the joy in which we are rejoicing before our God is because of you,

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,

¹¹ And I saw and I heard a voice like that of many messengers in circle of the throne and the living creatures and the elders, tens of thousands of tens of thousands; ¹² saying in a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who has been slaughtered to receive the power and the riches, and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and thanks. ¹³ And every created thing which is in the heaven and upon the earth and underneath the earth and upon the sea and all things in them, I heard saying, To the one who is sitting upon the throne and to the Lamb, is the thanks and the honor and the glory and the dominion, forevermore. Amen.

¹ I heard after these things, as it was a large voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, Hallelujah! Salvation and power and glory, is from our God: ² because true and righteous are his judgments, because he has judged the great prostitute, she who was corrupting the earth in her fornication and he has avenged the blood of his bondservants from her hand.
³ And they have said a second-time, Hallelujah. And her smoke goes up forevermore.
⁴ And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is sitting upon the throne, saying, Amen. Hallelujah.
⁵ And a voice came forth from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all his bondservants, and those who fear him, the little and the great.
⁶ And I heard as it was the voice of a large crowd and like the voice of many waters and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Hallelujah, because the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns.

¹⁰ Come, let us deal craftily with them, lest they multiply and it happen, that, when war happens, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us and get them up out of the land.

¹⁶ And he said, When you* do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see them upon the stool, if it is a son, then you* will kill him, but if it is a daughter, then she will live.

²² And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born you* will cast into the river and every daughter you* will save alive.

² And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah and moreover I will not let Israel go.

⁷ You* will no more give the people straw to make brick as formerly. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

¹⁶ But indeed for this cause I have raised you up, to display in you my power and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
¹⁷ As yet you exalt yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?

³ And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, Jehovah says thus, the God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and will kill* all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.

⁸ And Jehovah hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt and he pursued after the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel went out with a high hand.

¹⁸ And the Egyptians will know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten for me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

¹¹ Who is like you, O Jehovah, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

³ Talk no more so very proudly. Do not let arrogance come out of your* mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed.

²⁴ And the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of Jehovah in your mouth is truth.

¹⁵ And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company and came and stood before him. And he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, I beseech you, take a present from your servant.

²⁵ For great is Jehovah and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.

⁵ And the house which I build is great. For our God is great above all gods.

¹⁰ and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land, for you knew that they dealt proudly against them and got you a name, as it is this day.

¹⁶ But they and our fathers dealt proudly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments,

²⁹ and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly and did not listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he will live in them) and withdrew the shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not hear.

¹¹ Pour forth the overflowing of your anger and look upon everyone who is proud and humble him.
¹² Look on everyone who is proud, and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

²³ O love Jehovah, all you*, his holy ones. Jehovah preserves the faithful and plentifully repays he who deals proudly.

³ Because Jehovah is a great God and a great King above all gods.

⁹ Because you, Jehovah, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.

²¹ You have rebuked the proud, who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

⁵ Because I know that Jehovah is great and that our Lord is above all gods.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth and his ways justice. And he is able to humble those who walk in pride.

⁵¹ He has made his dominion known with his arm. He has scattered the haughty in the perception of their heart.

⁶ But he is giving greater grace. Hence the Scripture says, ‘God resists the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’

⁵ Likewise, the younger ones, be subject to the elder ones. But all of you be subject to one another, clothe yourselves with humility, because ‘God resists the haughty, but is giving grace to the humble.’

⁴ And Abel, he also brought of the first-offspring of his flock and of the fat of it. And Jehovah had respect to Abel and to his offering,

²⁰ And Noah built an altar to Jehovah and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

⁷ And Jehovah appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your seed. And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to him.

²⁵ And he built an altar there and called upon the name of Jehovah and pitched his tent there. And Isaac's servants dug a well there.

⁵⁴ And Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and called his brothers to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.

²⁵ And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon, because they heard that they should eat bread there.

²⁰ And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that you* have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

⁵ And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Jehovah.

¹¹ And he laid not his hand upon the nobles of the sons of Israel. And they beheld God and ate and drank.

¹¹ And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he will offer to Jehovah. ¹² If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he will offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil and unleavened wafers anointed with oil and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. ¹³ He will offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving with cakes of leavened bread. ¹⁴ And from it he will offer one out of each oblation for a heave offering to Jehovah. It will be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
¹⁵ And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving will be eaten on the day of his oblation; he will not leave any of it until the morning. ¹⁶ But if the sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a free-will offering, it will be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice and on the morrow what remains of it will be eaten, ¹⁷ but what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day will be burnt with fire.

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.

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

⁷ And David said to him, Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father and you will eat bread at my table continually.

²¹ And they sacrificed sacrifices to Jehovah and offered burnt offerings to Jehovah on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel, ²² and ate and drank before Jehovah on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time and anointed him to Jehovah to be prince and Zadok to be priest.

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.

⁵ And it was so, when the days of their feasting were completed, that Job sent and made them holy and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned and renounced God in their hearts. Thus Job did continually.

⁸ Now therefore, take to you* seven bullocks and seven rams. And go to my servant Job and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. And my servant Job will pray for you*, for him I will accept, that I not deal with you* after your* senselessness. For you* have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

¹¹ Then there came to him all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had been of his acquaintance before and ate bread with him in his house. And they sympathized with him and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him. Each man also gave him a piece of money and each one a ring of gold.

³ I ate no desirable bread. Neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.

¹ And it happened, while he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they themselves were observing him.

¹⁵ Now when someone from those who reclined at the meal together with him heard these things, he said to him, The fortunate one will be eating bread in the kingdom of God.

¹⁸ Beware of Israel, according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices partners of the altar?

²¹ You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

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

¹⁰ Tell, you* who ride on white donkeys, you* who sit on rich carpets and you* who walk by the way.

⁷ when I went forth to the gate to the city, when I prepared my seat in the street.

⁵ And a throne will be established in loving kindness and he will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and swift to do righteousness.

¹² Let the nations move themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations all around.

² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit upon the seat of Moses.

⁸ if he who is encouraging, in the encouragement; he who is giving, in liberality; he who is governing, do in diligence; he who is showing-mercy to others, do with joyfulness.

⁶ For you are also paying taxes because of this; for they are ministers of God, persevering toward this same thing.

¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel and God be with you. You be a leader for the people toward God and bring you the cases to God. ²⁰ And you will teach them the statutes and the laws and will show them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do.

¹² And they put him in confinement, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of Jehovah. ¹³ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁴ Bring forth he who has cursed outside the camp and let all who heard him lay their hands upon his head and let all the congregation stone him.

⁶ And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day,

⁸ And Moses said to them, Stay, that I may hear what Jehovah will command concerning you*.

³⁴ And they put him in confinement, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

⁵ And Moses brought their case before Jehovah.

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. ⁹ And you will come to the priests the Levites and to the judge who will be in those days and you will inquire. And they will show you the sentence of judgment.
¹⁰ And you will do according to the tenor of the sentence which they will show you from that place which Jehovah will choose. And you will observe to do according to all that they will teach you, ¹¹ according to the tenor of the law which they will teach you and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the sentence, which they will show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man will die and you will put away the evil from Israel. ¹³ And all the people will hear and fear and do no more presumptuously.

¹³ And he went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together. And he said to him who did the wrong, Why do you kill* your neighbor?

⁷ Keep far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, because I will not justify a wicked man.

¹⁴ And he said to the elders, Abide here for us, until we come again to you*. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you*; whoever has a case, let him come near to them.
¹⁵ And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God will bear his sin.

³⁵ And Jehovah said to Moses, The man will surely be put to death. All the congregation will stone him with stones outside the camp.

⁶ And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, ⁷ The daughters of Zelophehad speak right. You will surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brothers and you will cause the inheritance of their father to pass to them.
⁸ And you will speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If a man dies and has no son, then you* will cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter. ⁹ And if he has no daughter, then you* will give his inheritance to his brothers. ¹⁰ And if he has no brothers, then you* will give his inheritance to his father's brothers. ¹¹ And if his father has no brothers, then you* will give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family and he will possess it. And it will be to the sons of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

⁶ This is the thing which Jehovah commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best, only they will be married into the family of the tribe of their father. ⁷ So no inheritance of the sons of Israel will remove from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel will cling each one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸ And every daughter, who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the sons of Israel, will be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the sons of Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹ So no inheritance will move from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel will cling each one to his own inheritance.

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.

¹ And Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your* ears this day, that you* may learn them and observe to do them.

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,

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. ⁹ And you will come to the priests the Levites and to the judge who will be in those days and you will inquire. And they will show you the sentence of judgment.
¹⁰ And you will do according to the tenor of the sentence which they will show you from that place which Jehovah will choose. And you will observe to do according to all that they will teach you, ¹¹ according to the tenor of the law which they will teach you and according to the judgment which they will tell you, you will do. You will not turn aside from the sentence, which they will show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Jehovah your God, or to the judge, even that man will die and you will put away the evil from Israel.

²³ Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you*. But I will instruct you* in the good and the right way.

³ And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right, but there is no man appointed by the king to hear you.

¹³ If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

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.

¹⁴ But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, Therefore if it was indeed some wrongdoing or evil villainy, O you Jews, I might tolerate you according to reason. ¹⁵ But if there are debates concerning words and names and law which is according to you, you will see to it yourselves; for I am not willing to be a judge of these things.

¹ Does anyone of you, having a matter of strife toward the other, dare to have a lawsuit in front of the unrighteous and not in front of the holy-ones?

¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more. ² For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

¹⁴ I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. ¹⁵ And if you deal thus with me, I beseech you, kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight and do not let me see my wretchedness.
¹⁶ And Jehovah said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them. And bring them to the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you. ¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take of the spirit which is upon you and will put it upon them and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

⁹ And I spoke to you* at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you* myself alone. ¹⁰ Jehovah your* God has multiplied you*, and behold, you* are this day as the stars of heaven for a multitude. ¹¹ Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, make you* a thousand times as many as you* are and bless you*, as he has promised you*! ¹² How can I myself alone bear your* encumbrance and your* burden and your* strife?

¹ Now in the days when the disciples were multiplying, there became a murmuring from the Grecian Jews aimed toward the Hebrews, because their widows were being left unattended in the daily service. ² Now the twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them and said, It is not pleasing to God for us to have left the word of God to serve tables. ³ Therefore brethren, elect out of you seven men well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need. ⁴ But we will be persevering in prayer and in the service of the word.

¹⁵ Now I will gladly spend and be utterly spent on behalf of your souls; even if, when loving you even-more, means I am loved even-less.

³⁰ because he drew near almost as far as death, because of the work of the Christ, having disregarded his life in order that he might fill the lack in your ministry toward me.

⁸ So having kindly-feelings of you, we were delighted to have given to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because you have become beloved to us.
⁹ For brethren, you remember our labor and hardship. For we were working night and day, that we might not burden any of you while we preached to you the good-news of God.

² And Jehovah was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

¹² Now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you will speak.

¹⁶ and he will be your spokesman to the people. And it will happen, that he will be to you a mouth and you will be to him as God.

¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

²⁴ So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.

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

⁵ (I stood between Jehovah and you* at that time, to show you* the word of Jehovah, for you* were afraid because of the fire and did not go up onto the mountain), saying,

¹ When you go forth to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots, and a people more than you, you will not be afraid of them, for Jehovah your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be frightened, neither be dismayed, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

¹⁷ Then your handmaid said, I beseech you, let the word of my lord the king be gracious, for as a messenger of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. And Jehovah your God be with you.

⁹ Give opportunity to a wise man and he will be yet wiser. Teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.

¹⁶ When they have a matter, they come to me and I judge between a man and his neighbor. And I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.

¹⁸ And I commanded you* at that time all the things which you* should do.

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*.

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.

¹¹ You will therefore keep the commandment and the statutes and the ordinances, which I command you this day, to do them.

¹³ You also came down upon Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments, ¹⁴ and made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law, by Moses your servant.

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you will go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

⁸ Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, because I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, because I lift up my soul to you.

²¹ And your ears will hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you* in it when you* turn to the right hand and when you* turn to the left.

¹⁶ Jehovah says thus, Stand in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it and you* will find rest for your* souls. But they said, We will not walk.

³ that Jehovah your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.

¹⁷ Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me.

² And many nations will go and say, Come and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion will go forth the law and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

³⁴ It is like a man, going-abroad, having left his house and given authority to his bondservants, and his work to each one, and he commanded the doorkeeper in order that he should watch.

¹ Therefore furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you in the Lord Jesus, just-as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, in order that you might abound even more.

⁶ Now brethren, we are commanding you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to withdraw yourselves from every brother who is walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they received from us. ⁷ For you yourselves know how it is essential for you to imitate us. Because we did not act-disorderly among you; ⁸ nor did we eat bread freely from anyone, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, that we might not burden anyone of you; ⁹ not because we did not have the authority, but in order that we might give ourselves as an example to you, that you might imitate us. ¹⁰ For even when we were with you, we were commanding you this, If anyone is not willing to work, neither let him eat. ¹¹ For we hear there are some who are walking disorderly among you, working at nothing, but are busybodies. ¹² Now we are commanding to such and are encouraging through our Lord Jesus Christ, in order that they work with quietness and should eat their own bread.

¹² And he said, Do not lay your hand upon the lad, neither do you anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.

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

²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens,

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, ³ neither will you favor a poor man in his case.
⁴ If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey wandering, you will surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under his burden, you will refrain leaving him. You will surely release it with him.
⁶ You will not distort the justice due to your poor in his case.
⁷ Keep far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, because I will not justify a wicked man.
⁸ And you will take no bribe, because a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.
⁹ And you will not oppress a traveler, for you* know the heart of a traveler, because you* were travelers in the land of Egypt.

⁴ And if they blow but one, then the rulers, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will gather themselves to you.

¹³ Take for you* wise men and understanding and known, according to your* tribes and I will make them heads over you*.
¹⁴ And you* answered me and said, The thing which you have spoken is good to do. ¹⁵ So I took the heads of your* tribes, wise men and known and made them heads over you*, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens and officers, according to your* tribes.
¹⁶ And I charged your* judges at that time, saying, Hear between your* brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother and the traveler who is with him. ¹⁷ You* will not respect persons in judgment. You* will hear the small and the great alike. You* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you* you* will bring to me and I will hear it.

¹⁸ You will make judges and officers for you in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes and they will judge the people with righteous judgment. ¹⁹ You will not distort justice. You will not respect persons, neither will you take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

¹⁴ and with him ten rulers, one ruler of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel. And they were each man of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

³ And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.

¹² And he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties. And he will set some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.

³ Here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you*.
⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything of any man's hand.

³ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

⁹ Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to judge this your great people?
¹⁰ And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. ¹¹ And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, ¹² behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart, so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you will any arise like you.

³ And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared Jehovah greatly;

¹² And it will happen, as soon as I have gone from you, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry you where I do not know. And so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me. But I your servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

⁵ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, ⁶ and said to the judges, Consider what you* do. For you* judge not for man, but for Jehovah and he is with you* in the judgment. ⁷ Now therefore let the fear of Jehovah be upon you*. Take heed and do it. For there is no unrighteousness with Jehovah our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
⁸ Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat set from the Levites and the priests and from the heads of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of Jehovah and for controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem.
⁹ And he charged them, saying, Thus you* will do in the fear of Jehovah, faithfully and with a perfect heart. ¹⁰ And whenever any controversy will come to you* from your* brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you* will warn them, that they not be guilty towards Jehovah and so wrath come upon you* and upon your* brothers. Do this and you* will not be guilty.

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

² that I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over Jerusalem, for he was a faithful man and feared God above many.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy and I searched out the case of he whom I did not know.

⁵ he who puts not his money out to interest, nor takes a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will not be shaken everlasting.

⁹ Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood, ¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness and their right hand is full of bribes.

² For the transgression of a land many are the rulers of it. But by men of understanding and knowledge the state will be prolonged.

¹³ This is the end of the matter, all has been heard: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole of man.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously and speaks in uprightness. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

⁴ No man sues in righteousness and no man pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness.

¹⁴ And justice is turned away backward and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street and uprightness cannot enter. ¹⁵ Yes, truth is lacking and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
And Jehovah saw it and it displeased him that there was no justice.

¹ Run you* to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seek in the broad places of it, if you* can find a man, if there is any who does justly, who seeks truth and I will pardon her.

⁸ he who has not given forth upon interest, nor has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from unrighteousness, has executed true justice between man and man,

¹² In you they have taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. And you have greedily gained from your neighbors by oppression and have forgotten me, says the lord Jehovah.

⁹ Thus Jehovah of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute true justice and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

¹⁶ These are the things that you* will do: Speak to every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your* gates.

² saying: A certain judge was in a certain city, who did not fear God and did not revere man.

⁴ And he did not wish to at that time, but after these things, he said in himself, Even if I do not fear God, and do not revere man;

³ Therefore brethren, elect out of you seven men well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we might designate over this need.

³³ I coveted no one’s silver or gold or garment.

³ not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a money-lover;

⁹ But those who are planning to be rich are falling into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, which are submerging men into utter-destruction and everlasting destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils; of which some aspiring to, have been misled from the faith and they themselves are staked-through by many sorrows.
¹¹ But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue: righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.

¹⁴ having eyes full of an adulteress and an unceasing sin; enticing unstable souls; having a heart which has been exercised from greed; children of the curse; ¹⁵ having left the straight way. They were misled, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

¹⁸ You will surely wear away, both you and this people that is with you, because the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

²⁶ and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

¹¹ and the son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. And they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take of the spirit which is upon you and will put it upon them and they will bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.

³³ And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.

² And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the rulers and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

¹ And the heads of the fathers of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the rulers, the heads of the fathers of the sons of Israel.

¹⁷ You* will not respect persons in judgment. You* will hear the small and the great alike. You* will not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you* you* will bring to me and I will hear it. ¹⁸ And I commanded you* at that time all the things which you* should do.

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. ⁹ And you will come to the priests the Levites and to the judge who will be in those days and you will inquire. And they will show you the sentence of judgment.

³³ And Jehovah went his way as soon as he had left off speaking with Abraham and Abraham returned to his place.

¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, that is with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
¹² And God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For in Isaac will your seed be called.

²⁵ And it happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.

²⁹ See, because Jehovah has given you* the Sabbath, therefore he gives you* on the sixth day the bread of two days. Abide every man in his place. Let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

⁶ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed to Jehovah.
⁷ And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

²² And Jehovah said to Samuel, Listen to their voice and make for them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go every man to his city.

³ But the people said, You will not go forth. For if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us, but you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.

³⁹ And all the people went over the Jordan and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him and he returned to his own place.

¹⁷ But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him and killed* the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You will no more go out with us to battle, that you not quench the lamp of Israel.

² Therefore, when it happened, (not just a small dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them), the brethren appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others out of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this debate.

² But I went up according to revelation, and I myself submitted to them the good-news which I am preaching among the Gentiles, (but privately before those of repute), lest I might be running or had run in vain.

²⁴ now to remain in the flesh is necessary because of you. ²⁵ And having confidence of this, I know that I will remain, and I will be abiding together with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away, ³ and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom, because he said, I have been a traveler in a foreign land. ⁴ And the name of the other was Eliezer, because he said, The God of my father was my help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
⁵ And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the mountain of God.

¹⁹ Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel and God be with you. You be a leader for the people toward God and bring you the cases to God.

² And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

⁵ Then Ezra arose and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

⁵ that the wise man may hear and increase in learning and that the man of understanding may attain to sound-wisdom,

²¹ Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²¹ Moreover you will provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties and rulers of tens,

¹⁵ So I took the heads of your* tribes, wise men and known and made them heads over you*, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens and officers, according to your* tribes.

⁵ And the speech pleased the whole multitude and they themselves chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolaus a Jewish-convert from Antioch;

¹⁴ And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that you do to the people? Why do you sit by yourself and all the people stand about you from morning to evening?
¹⁵ And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

²² and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it will be, that every great matter they will bring to you, but every small matter they will judge themselves. So it will be easier for yourself and they will bear the burden with you.

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.

¹⁶ Then two women who were prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. ¹⁷ And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house. And I was delivered of a child with her in the house. ¹⁸ And it happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also. And we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, except we two in the house.
¹⁹ And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it. ²⁰ And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me while your handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom and laid her dead child in my bosom. ²¹ And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead. But when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I bore.
²² And the other woman said, No, but the living is my son and the dead is your son. And the other woman said, No, but the dead is your son and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
²³ Then the king said, The one says, This is my son that lives and your son is the dead. And the other says, No, but your son is the dead and my son is the living. ²⁴ And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. ²⁵ And the king said, Divide the living child in two and give half to the one and half to the other.
²⁶ Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child and by no means kill it. But the other said, It will be neither mine nor your. Divide it. ²⁷ Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child and by no means kill it; she is the mother of it.
²⁸ And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged. And they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

¹ And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, she came to prove him with hard questions.

⁵⁹ And they sent Rebekah their sister away and her nurse and Abraham's servant and his men.

⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. And Laban departed and returned to his place.

²⁹ And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, We are journeying to the place of which Jehovah said, I will give it to you*. You come with us and we will do you good, for Jehovah has spoken good concerning Israel. ³⁰ And he said to him, I will not go, but I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.

⁹ And when the man rose up to depart, he and his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the maiden's father, said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, I beseech you* abide all night. Behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here that your heart may be merry and tomorrow get early on your* way that you may go home.