Genesis 6 Cross References - MLV

¹ And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose. ³ And Jehovah said, My Spirit will not strive in man everlasting, he is flesh in their erring. Yet his days will be a hundred and twenty years.
⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. ⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only continually evil. ⁶ And Jehovah regretted that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him in his heart. ⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man to beast, to creeping things and birds of the heavens, because I regret that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.
⁹ These are the genealogies of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth.
¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God saw the earth and behold, it was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, because the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
¹⁴ Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. You will make rooms in the ark and will pitch it inside and outside with pitch. ¹⁵ And this is how you will make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits. ¹⁶ You will make a door for the ark and you will finish it to a cubit upward. And you will set the door of the ark in the side of it and you will make it with lower, second and third stories.
¹⁷ And I, behold, I bring the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the breath of life, from under heaven. Everything that is on the earth will die.
¹⁸ But I will establish my covenant with you. And you will come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
¹⁹ And from every living thing of all flesh, you will bring into the ark two of every sort, to keep them alive with you. They will be male and female. ²⁰ Of the birds according to their kind and of the cattle according to their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind. Two of every sort will come to you, to keep them alive.
²¹ And you take to you of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourself and it will be for food for you and for them. ²² Noah did so according to all that God commanded him and so he did.

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and have power over it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate. And she also gave to her husband with her and he ate.

²⁶ And to Seth, to him there was also born a son and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of Jehovah.

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

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

⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand and he knew nothing that was with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome and fine-looking.
⁷ And it happened, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and she said, Lie with me.

²² And you will say to Pharaoh, Jehovah says thus, Israel is my son, my firstborn, ²³ and I have said to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me and you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill* your son, your firstborn.

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.

³ Neither will you make marriages with them. Your daughter you will not give to his son, nor his daughter will you take to your son. ⁴ For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods, so the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you* and he will destroy you quickly.

¹ You* are the sons of Jehovah your* God. You* will not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your* eyes for the dead.

¹² Else if you* do at all go back and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you* and make marriages with them and go in to them and they to you*, ¹³ know for a certainty that Jehovah your* God will no more drive these nations from out of your* sight, but they will be a snare and a trap to you* and a scourge in your* sides and thorns in your* eyes, until you* perish from this good land which Jehovah your* God has given you*.

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

¹ Now when these things were done, the rulers drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites. ² For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yes, the hand of the heads and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

¹² Now therefore do not give your* daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your* sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that you* may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your* sons until everlasting.

²⁴ And their sons spoke half in the speech of Ashdod and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. ²⁵ And I contended with them and cursed them and killed* certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God, saying, You* will not give your* daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your* sons, or for yourselves.
²⁶ Did not Solomon King of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations and he was beloved of his God and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin. ²⁷ Shall we then listen to you* to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?

⁶ I said, You* are gods and all of you* sons of the Most High. ⁷ Nevertheless you* will die like men and fall like one of the rulers.

¹⁶ For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not and Israel does not acknowledge us, you, O Jehovah, are our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is your name.

¹¹ Judah has dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

¹⁵ And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And why one? He sought a godly seed.
Therefore take heed to your* spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

⁴¹ You are practicing the works of your father.
Therefore they said to him, We have not been born from fornication; we have one Father–God.
⁴² Therefore Jesus said to them, If God was your Father, you would love me; for I came out and have come from God; for neither have I come from myself, but from that one who sent me.

⁷ neither are they all children, because they are Abraham’s seed, but instead, ‘In Isaac your seed will be called.’ ⁸ This thing is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for a seed.

³⁹ A wife has been bound by law inasmuch time as the husband is living, but if the husband has fallen-asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wills, but only in the Lord.

¹⁴ Do not become unequally yoked with unbelieving ones; for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with unbelieving ones? ¹⁶ And what alliance has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God; just-as God said, ‘I will be dwelling among them and will be walking among them, and I will be their God and they will be a people to me.’

¹⁸ and will be a Father to you and you will be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.’

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;

¹⁶ Because all the things which are in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the self-importance of life, are not from the Father, but are from the world.

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.

³⁰ Yet many years you prolonged with them and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

³⁹ And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again.

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, it brought out wild grapes?

¹⁰ But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.

⁷ For I earnestly protested to your* fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

¹¹ Therefore Jehovah says thus, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they will not be able to escape. And they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

⁶ What has been born out of the flesh is flesh, and what has been born out of the Spirit is spirit.

⁵¹ You are stiff-necked and non-circumcised in heart and ears. You are habitually defying the Holy Spirit, like your fathers, like you also!

¹ Consequently now nothing is condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free away from the law of sin and of death. ³ For the law being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh; ⁴ in order that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, those who are not walking according to the flesh, but walking according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who are according to the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit are mindful of the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace; ⁷ because the mindset of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able to be; ⁸ and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus up from the dead is dwelling in you, he who raised the Christ up from the dead will also be giving-life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who is dwelling in you.
¹² Therefore consequently, brethren, we are debtors but not to the flesh, not to live according to the flesh; ¹³ for if you are living according to the flesh, you are about to die, but if you slay the practices of the body in spirit, you will be living.

¹⁶ But I am saying, walk by the Spirit and you may never complete the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh, and these lay in opposition to one another; in order that you may not do these things which you would wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, unbridled-lusts, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousies, furies, selfish ambitions, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings and things similar to these things; which I am telling to you beforehand, also just-as I foretold to you, that those who are practicing such things–they will not be inheriting the kingdom of God!
²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness and self-control. There is no law against such. ²⁴ But those who are of the Christ have crucified the flesh together with its passions and lusts.

¹⁹ Do not quench the Spirit.

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once for all on behalf of our sins, the righteous on behalf of the unrighteous, in order that he might lead you to God; having indeed been slain in the flesh, but was given-life in the Spirit; ¹⁹ in which, he also traveled and preached to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ when they previously were disobedient, when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

¹⁴ Now Enoch, seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, Behold, the Lord came in among tens of thousands of his holy-ones, ¹⁵ to make a judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly of them, concerning all their works of ungodliness of which they did in ungodly ways and concerning all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build a city for us and a tower and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we are scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

³³ And we saw there the giants, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants. And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers and so we were in their sight.

² and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty rulers of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown,

²⁰ (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim. Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, ²¹ a people great and many and tall, as the Anakim. But Jehovah destroyed them before them and they succeeded them and dwelt in their stead,

¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his couch was a couch of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was the length of it and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

⁴ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

¹⁵ And the Philistines had war again with Israel. And David went down and his servants with him and fought against the Philistines. And David grew faint, ¹⁶ and Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
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.
¹⁸ And it happened after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
¹⁹ And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
²⁰ And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature who had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes, twenty-four in number and he also was born to the giant. ²¹ And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him. ²² These four were born to the giant in Gath and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

²¹ And Jehovah smelled the sweet aroma. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for the sake of man, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. I will not again kill* everything living, as I have done.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and great sinners against Jehovah.

²⁰ And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous, ²¹ I will go down now and see whether they have done according to the cry which comes to me. And if not, I will know.

¹⁹ and it happens, when he hears the words of this curse, that he graces himself in his heart, saying, I will have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

¹⁶ How much less one who is abominable and morally-corrupt, a man who drinks unrighteousness like water!

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. ² Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³ They are all gone aside. They are morally-corrupt together. There is none who does good, no, not one.
⁴ Have all the workers of wickedness no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon Jehovah?

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood, who seek after God.

¹⁸ a heart that devises wicked purposes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

²⁹ Behold, this only I have found: That God made man upright, but they have sought out many devices.

³ This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all.
Yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil and madness is in their heart while they live and after that they go to the dead.

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

⁹ And he said to me, Go in and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

¹² Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his chambers of imagery? For they say, Jehovah does not see us. Jehovah has forsaken the land.

¹⁹ For out of the heart comes forth evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

²¹ For evil reasonings travel from inside, out of the heart of men, such as : adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² greedy-acts, wickednesses, treachery, unbridled-lusts, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things travel from inside, and desecrate the man.

²⁸ And just-as they did not approve to have God in their full knowledge, God gave them up to an unapproved mind, to do those things which are not proper. ²⁹ They have been filled with all: unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of: envy, murder, strife, treachery, maliciousness. They are: malicious whisperers, ³⁰ slandering, spiteful to God, insolent, haughty, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ without understanding, covenant-breakers, cold-hearted, implacable and unmerciful.

⁹ Therefore what? Are we, Jews special? Certainly not; for we accused beforehand, both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin; ¹⁰ just-as it has been written, ‘There is none righteous, not even one. ¹¹ No one is understanding. No one is seeking out God. ¹² They all shunned God. They were becoming-useless at the same time. No one is practicing kindness; no one is insofar as even one.’ ¹³ ‘Their throat has been an opened burial chamber; they were treacherous with their tongues.’‘The poison of asps is under their lips.’ ¹⁴ ‘Whose mouth is full of evil-cursing and bitterness.’ ¹⁵ ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ downfall and miseries are in their ways; ¹⁷ and they did not know the way of peace.’ ¹⁸ ‘There is no fear of God in front of their eyes.’
¹⁹ Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;

¹ Even you were dead in your trespasses and sins, ² in which you previously walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit which now is working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we also all conducted ourselves previously in the lusts of our flesh, practicing the wills of the flesh and of the mind and we were children of wrath by nature, even as the rest.

³ For we were also previously foolish, disobedient, being misled, serving in various lusts and sensual-delights, leading lives in malice and envy, spiteful, hating one another.

¹⁴ And Jehovah relented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

¹⁹ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not make it good?

²⁹ Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their sons everlasting!

²⁹ Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

³⁶ For Jehovah will judge his people and regrets for his servants, when he sees that their power has gone and there is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

¹¹ I regret that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry and he cried out to Jehovah all night.

²⁹ And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent, for he is not a man that he should repent.

³⁵ And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death, for Samuel mourned for Saul and Jehovah regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.

¹⁶ And when the messenger stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah relented of the evil and said to the messenger who destroyed the people, It is enough. Now stay your hand. And the messenger of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

¹⁵ And God sent a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it. And as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld and he relented of the evil and said to the destroying messenger, It is enough. Now halt your hand. And the messenger of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

¹³ O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁰ Forty years long I was grieved with that generation and said, It is a people that do go-astray in their heart and they have not known my ways.

⁴⁵ And he remembered his covenant for them and relented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

⁴ Jehovah has sworn and will not repent. You are a everlasting priest after the order of Melchizedek.

¹⁵⁸ I beheld the treacherous and was grieved because they do not observe your word.

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.

⁸ if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from their evil, I will relent of the evil that I thought to do to them.
⁹ And at that instant I will speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, ¹⁰ if they do what is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will relent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

¹⁹ Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Jehovah and entreat the favor of Jehovah. And Jehovah relented of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we commit great evil against our own souls.

¹¹ Say to them, As I live, says the lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, but that the wicked man turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your* evil ways, for why will you* die, O house of Israel?

⁸ How shall I give you up, Ephraim? How shall I cast you off, Israel? How shall I make you as Admah? How shall I set you as Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me. My compassions are kindled together.

¹³ And tear your* heart and not your* garments and turn to Jehovah your* God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and relents of the evil.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. And God relented of the evil which he said he would do to them and he did not do it.

⁶ For I, Jehovah, do not change. Therefore you*, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

⁴¹ And as he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, If you had known in this day, even you, for-sure, the things which are for your peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes.

²⁹ For the gifts and the calling of God are unregrettable.

³⁰ And do not make the Holy Spirit of God sorrowful, in whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.

¹⁰ Hence I was displeased with that generation and said, They themselves are habitually misled in their heart s, but they did not know my ways.

¹⁷ And with whom was he displeased for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

¹⁷ In which God, planning to show even-more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable will of his plan, intermediated this with an oath; ¹⁸ in order that through two unchangeable matters, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge, to take-hold of the hope that lays before us.

¹⁷ Every good act of giving, and every complete gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor a shadow of turning.

¹ The earth is Jehovah's and the fullness of it, the world and those who dwell in it. ² Because he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.

²⁰ Because the wicked will perish and the enemies of Jehovah are as the fat of lambs: they will disintegrate; they will disintegrate away into smoke.

²⁷ The fear of Jehovah prolongs days, but the years of the wicked will be shortened.

⁴ Jehovah has made everything for its own end, yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

²² For my people are foolish. They do not know me.
They are foolish sons and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but they have no knowledge to do good.
²³ I beheld the earth, and behold, it was waste and void and the heavens and they had no light. ²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and behold, they trembled and all the hills moved to and fro. ²⁵ I beheld, and behold, there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled. ²⁶ I beheld, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Jehovah and before his fierce anger.
²⁷ For Jehovah says thus: The whole land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end.

³ Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter. ⁴ How long will the land mourn and the herbs of whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the beasts are consumed and the birds, because they said, He will not see our latter end.

³ Therefore the land will mourn and everyone who dwells in it will languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yes, the fishes of the sea will also be taken away.

³ I will consume man and beast. I will consume the birds of the heavens and the fishes of the sea and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off man from the face of the ground, says Jehovah.

²⁰ because no flesh will be made righteous in his sight from the works of the law; for through the law comes the full knowledge of sin.
²¹ But now the righteousness of God has been manifested separate from the law, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; ²² even the righteousness of God through faith of Jesus Christ toward all and upon all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

¹⁹ Behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me and I die.

¹² And Moses said to Jehovah, See, say to me, Bring up this people and you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, I know you by name and you have also found favor in my sight.
¹³ Now therefore, I beseech you, if I have found favor in your sight, show me now your ways, that I may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight. And consider that this nation is your people. ¹⁴ And he said, My presence will go with you and I will give you rest.
¹⁵ And Moses said to him, If your presence do not go, do not carry us up from here. ¹⁶ For how will it now be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
¹⁷ And Jehovah said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken, because you have found favor in my sight and I know you by name.

¹¹ Because Jehovah God is a sun and a shield. Jehovah will give favor and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

²⁰ Jehovah preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

⁴ so you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

³⁵ Because he who finds me finds life and will obtain favor of Jehovah.

² A good man will obtain favor of Jehovah, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

² Jehovah says thus: The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness, even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

³⁰ And the messenger said to her, Do not fear, Mary; for you have found favor with God.

⁴⁶ David, who found favor in God’s sight, asked to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

⁴ Now to the one who is working, the reward is not counted according to favor, but according to debt.

⁶ But if it is by grace, it is no more from works, otherwise grace becomes grace no more. But if it is from works, no more is it grace; otherwise work is work no more.

¹⁰ But I am what I am by the grace of God and his grace toward me has not become empty, but I labored even-more than they all did; but not I, but the grace of God which was together with me.

¹⁵ But when God was delighted–he separated me from my mother’s womb, having called me through his grace,

¹⁸ (may the Lord give to him to find mercy from the Lord in that day), and how-much he served me in Ephesus, you know this quite-well.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared, which is salvation to all men,

⁷ in order that we might become heirs according to the hope of everlasting life, having been made righteous in that grace.

¹⁶ Therefore let us come near to the throne of the grace with boldness, in order that we may receive mercy and may find grace for opportune help.

⁵ and he did not spare the ancient world, but guarded Noah, the eighth person spared, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of ungodly people;

⁴ These are the genealogies of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

¹ This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in the likeness of God,

²² And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah and fathered more sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Enoch walked with God and he did not die, because God took him.

¹ And Jehovah said to Noah, Come, you and all your house into the ark, because I have seen you to be righteous before me in this generation.

¹ Now these are the genealogies of the sons of Noah, of Shem, Ham and Japheth. And the sons who were born to them after the flood.

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me and you will be perfect.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

⁶ And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, just-as he walked before you in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. And you have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day.

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

² And he did what was right in the eyes of Jehovah, but not with a perfect heart.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job and that man was perfect and upright and one who feared God and turned away from evil.

⁸ And Jehovah said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.

⁴ I am as a man who is a laughing-stock to his neighbor. I who called upon God and he answered. The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.

³⁷ Keep as the perfect man and behold the upright, because there is a happy end to the man of peace.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

²⁰ Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth that does good and does not sin.

¹⁴ though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the lord Jehovah.

²⁰ though Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, as I live, says the lord Jehovah, they would deliver neither son nor daughter, they would but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

⁴ Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man will live by his faith.)

⁶ Now they were both righteous and blameless in God’s sight, conducting-themselves in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

²⁵ And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

⁵⁰ And behold, a man, Joseph by name, who is a counselor, a good and righteous man

²² Now they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and fearing God, being well testified of by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely-warned by a holy messenger to send for you to come to his house and to hear words from you.

¹⁷ For the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to

¹¹ Now it is evident that no one is made righteous in the law before God, because, ‘The righteous will be living from faith.’

⁹ and may be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, which is from the law, but which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is from God on the faith, ¹⁰ that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being transformed to his death; ¹¹ if somehow I may achieve to the resurrection from the dead. ¹² Not that I have already received it or have already been completed in this, but I am pursuing it, if I might grab that for which I was also grabbed by Christ Jesus. ¹³ Brethren, I do not reason to have grabbed it, but one thing I indeed do, forgetting the things which are behind me and stretching forth to the things which are before me. ¹⁴ I am pursuing according to the goal line toward the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Therefore, as many as are mature, we should be mindful of this, and if you are mindful of anyone differently, God will also be revealing this to you;

⁷ In faith, Noah, having been divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, and being scared, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and he became an heir of righteousness according to faith.

⁵ You, yourselves, like living stones, are also built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

³² And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah fathered Shem, Ham and Japheth.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Jehovah.

²⁷ because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against the inhabitants of it and have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says Jehovah.

⁵ Jehovah tries the righteous man. But his soul hates the wicked man and he who loves violence.

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.

¹¹ An evil speaker will not be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

¹⁸ Violence will no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

⁷ As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Continually before me is sickness and wounds.

¹⁷ Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned again to provoke me to anger. And behold, they put the branch to their nose.

¹⁶ By the abundance of your commerce they filled the midst of you with violence and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you out of the mountain of God as profane and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

¹ Hear the word of Jehovah, you* sons of Israel, for Jehovah has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. ² There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith and killing and stealing and committing adultery. They break out and blood touches blood.

² O Jehovah, how long shall I cry and you will not hear? I cry out to you of violence and you will not save.

⁸ Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

¹⁷ For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you and the plunder of the beasts (which made them afraid), because of men's blood and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

¹³ For the hearers of the law are not righteous with God, but the doers of the law will be made righteous.

¹⁹ Now we know how-much, as many things as the law says, it is speaking to those in the law; in order that every mouth may be sealed and all the world may become under the sentence of God;

⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. ⁵ And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only continually evil.

⁸ But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

²¹ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and all mankind.

¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you* and every living creature that is with you*, everlasting.

¹⁶ And the bow will be in the cloud and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. ¹⁷ And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

²¹ I will go down now and see whether they have done according to the cry which comes to me. And if not, I will know.

¹⁵ Will you keep the old way which wicked men have trodden? ¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream, ¹⁷ who said to God, Depart from us, and What can the Almighty do for us?

²⁷ He sings before men and says, I have sinned and perverted what was right and it did not profit me.

¹ The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none that does good. ² Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God. ³ They are all gone aside. They are morally-corrupt together. There is none who does good, no, not one.

¹³ Jehovah looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men. ¹⁴ From the place of his habitation he looks forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth;

² God looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood, who seek after God. ³ Every one of them has gone back. They are morally-corrupt all together. There is none who does good, no, not one.

³ The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

⁶ And all flesh will be seeing the salvation of God.’

⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

¹¹ And the earth was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God saw the earth and behold, it was corrupt, because all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things and birds of the heavens and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left and those who were with him in the ark.

⁵ Simeon and Levi are brothers, weapons of violence are their swords.

²³ I beheld the earth, and behold, it was waste and void and the heavens and they had no light. ²⁴ I beheld the mountains, and behold, they trembled and all the hills moved to and fro. ²⁵ I beheld, and behold, there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled. ²⁶ I beheld, and behold, the fruitful field was a wilderness and all the cities of it were broken down at the presence of Jehovah and before his fierce anger.
²⁷ For Jehovah says thus: The whole land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a full end. ²⁸ For this the earth will mourn and the heavens above be black, because I have spoken it, I have purposed it and I have not relented, nor will I turn back from it.

¹³ O you who dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your covetousness.

² And you, son of man, thus says the lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end. The end has come upon the four corners of the land. ³ Now the end is upon you and I will send my anger upon you and will judge you according to your ways. And I will bring upon you all your abominations. ⁴ And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity. But I will bring your ways upon you and your abominations will be in the midst of you.
And you* will know that I am Jehovah.
⁵ The lord Jehovah says thus: An evil, an only evil, behold, it comes. ⁶ An end has come. The end has come. It awakens against you. Behold, it comes.

² And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me, The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

⁷ But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore, be sensible and be sober for prayers.

⁶ through which water, the world which was then was destroyed, having been flooded in water. ⁷ But the current heavens and the earth have been stored up for fire by the same word, being kept to the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will be coming like a thief in the night; in which the heavens will be passing away with a crashing-sound, and the elements will be dissolved, being burnt with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it will be burned up. ¹¹ Therefore, with all these things being dissolved, see what sort of things you ought to possess in all holy conduct and godliness, ¹² expecting, and diligently wanting the presence of the day of God, through which, the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt, being burnt with heat.

³ And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with tar and with pitch. And she put the child in it and laid it in the reeds by the river's edge.

³⁸ For just-as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and being betrothed, till the day that Noah entered into the ark,

²⁷ They were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being betrothed, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

²⁰ when they previously were disobedient, when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

²⁰ fifteen cubits upward. The waters prevailed and the mountains were covered.

¹⁶ And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

⁶ And it happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made.

¹⁶ And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah and she despised him in her heart.

³⁰ And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and attired her head and looked out at the window.

¹⁶ the thresholds and the closed windows and the galleries all around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, paneled with wood all around and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

³ Opposite the twenty which belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

²⁵ From whenever time the householder arose and locked the door and you, being outside, may begin to stand and to knock on the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
And when he has answered the knock, he will say to you, I do not know you or where you are from.

⁷ And Jehovah God formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.

⁷ And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the ground, from man to beast, to creeping things and birds of the heavens, because I regret that I have made them.

¹³ And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before me, because the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

⁴ For after seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights and I will blot from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.

¹⁵ And they went in, to Noah and into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.

¹⁷ And the flood was forty days upon the earth. And the waters increased and bore up the ark and it was lifted up above the earth.

²¹ And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth and all mankind. ²² All died in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land. ²³ And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, from man, to cattle, to creeping things and birds of the heavens and they were destroyed from the earth. And only Noah was left and those who were with him in the ark.

⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you* and with your* seed after you*

¹⁷ And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians and they will go in after them and I will get for me honor upon Pharaoh and upon all his army, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

²⁸ then I will walk contrary to you* in wrath and I also will discipline you* seven times for your* sins.

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he and there is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

¹⁶ Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

¹⁰ Jehovah sat as King at the Flood. Yes, Jehovah sits as King everlasting.

³ The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their waves. ⁴ Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

¹² I, even I, am he who comforts you*. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who will die and of the son of man who will be made as grass,

⁹ For this is as the waters of Noah to me. For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah will no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

⁸ therefore thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against you and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

³ and say, You* mountains of Israel, hear the word of lord Jehovah. The lord Jehovah says thus to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you* and I will destroy your* high places.

¹¹ For thus says the lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep and will seek them out.

²⁰ Therefore thus says the lord Jehovah to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

¹⁴ For I will be to Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away, I will carry off and there will be none to deliver.

⁶ He who builds his chambers in the heavens and has founded his vault upon the earth, he who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth, Jehovah is his name.

³⁹ and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away; so the presence of the Son of Man will also be.

¹² Because of this, just-as sin entered into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death has gone forth to all men, in which all have sinned. ¹³ For Sin was in the world till the law, but sin is not charged to one’s account when there is no law. ¹⁴ But death reigned from Adam till Moses, even on those who did not sin on the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a pattern of the future one. \ulnone\nosupersub

²¹ in order that, just-as sin reigned in death, so also the favor might also reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

²³ For the compensations of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not voluntarily, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that even the creation itself will be made free away from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all creation groans and travails together in pain till now.

⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives went in with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

¹³ In the same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark,

⁹ And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you* and with your* seed after you* ¹⁰ and with every living creature that is with you*, the birds, the cattle and every beast of the earth with you*, of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. ¹¹ And I will establish my covenant with you*. Neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood, nor will there be a flood any more to destroy the earth.
¹² And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you* and every living creature that is with you*, everlasting. ¹³ I set my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ And it will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud. ¹⁵ And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you* and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. ¹⁶ And the bow will be in the cloud and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

⁴ As for me, behold, my covenant is with you and you will be the father of a multitude of nations.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

²¹ But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year.

²⁰ Come, my people, enter you into your chambers and shut your doors around you. Hide yourself for a little moment until the indignation have passed over.

² You will take to you the male and his female of every clean beast by sevens. And two of the beasts that are not clean, male and his female. ³ Also of the birds of the heavens by sevens, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

⁸ Of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps upon the ground, ⁹ there went in two by two into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

¹⁵ And they went in, to Noah and into the ark, two by two of all flesh in which is the breath of life. ¹⁶ And those that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

¹⁷ Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all flesh, both birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth.

⁶ Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great deep. O Jehovah, you preserve man and beast.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven. ²¹ And God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought out abundantly, according to their kind and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. ²³ And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kind. And it was so.

¹⁹ And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was the name of it.

⁸ Of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and of birds and of everything that creeps upon the ground, ⁹ there went in two by two into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God commanded Noah.
¹⁰ And it happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. ¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. ¹² And for forty days and forty nights the rain was upon the earth.
¹³ In the same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the ark, ¹⁴ they and every beast according to its kind and all the cattle according to their kind and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, every bird of every wing.

⁴⁰ and you are not willing to come to me, in order that you may have life.

¹¹ And he views the heaven having opened and a certain vessel coming down, like a great sheet having been bound and being dropped down by four edges upon the earth; ¹² in which were all kinds of four footed mammals and beasts and reptiles of the earth and birds of the heaven.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you* every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you* it will be for food, ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps upon the earth in which there is life and to you * every green herb, for food. And it was so.

⁴¹ Who provides for the raven his prey when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

²⁰ Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery and the messenger of Jehovah pursuing them.

²⁷ These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. ²⁸ You give to them, they gather. You open your hand, they are satisfied with good.

²⁵ who gives food to all flesh, because his loving kindness is everlasting.

¹⁶ You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

⁹ He gives to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry.

²⁶ Look at the birds of the heaven, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father is nourishing them. Are you not carrying much more-value than them?

⁵ And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.

⁹ there went in two by two into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

¹⁶ Thus did Moses. According to all that Jehovah commanded him, so did he.

¹⁹ And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

²¹ And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen and screened the ark of the testimony, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

²³ And he set the bread in order upon it before Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

²⁵ And he lit the lamps before Jehovah, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

²⁷ and he burnt incense of sweet spices on it, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

³² They washed when they went into the tent of meeting and when they came near to the altar, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

³² Whatever thing I command you*, that will you* observe to do. You will not add to it, nor diminish from it.

²⁴ Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and practices them, he will be similar to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and fell down upon that house, and it did not fall; for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And everyone hearing these words of mine and who is not doing them, will be similar to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain came down and the rivers came up and the winds blew and hit that house and it fell and great was its fall.

⁵ His mother says to the servants, If he says anything to you, do it.

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

⁷ In faith, Noah, having been divinely-warned concerning things not yet seen, and being scared, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and he became an heir of righteousness according to faith. ⁸ In faith, Abraham obeyed, being called to go out to the place which he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.

³ For this is the love of God, in order that we should keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdensome. ⁴ Because everyone who has been born from God overcomes the world and this is the victory, our faith, that has overcome the world.