Deuteronomy 27 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying, "Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. ² And when ye be come over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster, ³ and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. ⁴ When ye be come over Jordan, see that ye set up these stones which I command you this day in mount Ebal, and plaster them with plaster. ⁵ And there build, unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones; and see thou lift up no iron upon them. ⁶ But thou shalt make the altar of the LORD thy God of rough stones and offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God. ⁷ And thou shalt offer peace offerings and shalt eat there and rejoice before the LORD thy God. ⁸ And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well." ⁹ And Moses, with the priests the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, "Take heed and hear, Israel: this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God. ¹⁰ Hearken therefore unto the voice of the LORD thy God and do his commandments and his ordinances which I command you this day." ¹¹ And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, ¹² "These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. ¹³ And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. ¹⁴ And the Levites shall begin, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice, ¹⁵ 'Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal — an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman — and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' ¹⁶ "'Cursed be he that curseth his father or his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁷ "'Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's mark.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁸ 'Cursed be he that maketh the blind go out of his way.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ¹⁹ "'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁰ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²¹ "'Cursed be he that lieth with any manner beast.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²² "'Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, whether she be the daughter of his father or of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²³ "'Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁴ "'Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁵ "'Cursed be he that taketh a reward to slay innocent blood.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' ²⁶ "'Cursed be he that maintaineth not all the words of this law to do them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

²⁵ he said, "Cursed be Canaan, and a servant, of all servants be he to his brethren."

³² And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me." ³³ And she conceived again and bare a son, and said, "The LORD hath heard that I am despised, and hath therefore given me this son also." And she called him Simeon. ³⁴ And she conceived yet, and bare a son, and said, "Now this once will my husband keep me company, because I have borne him three sons." And therefore she called his name Levi. ³⁵ And she conceived yet again, and bare a son, saying, "Now will I praise the LORD!" Therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.

⁶ Then said Rachel, "God hath given sentence on my side, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son." Therefore called she him Dan. ⁷ And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again; and bare Jacob another son. ⁸ And Rachel said, "God is turned, and I have made a change with my sister, and have gotten the upper hand." And she called his name Naphtali. ⁹ When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah Lea's maid bare Jacob a son. ¹¹ Then said Lea, "Good luck," and called his name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Lea's maid, bare Jacob another son. ¹³ Then said Lea, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed." And called his name Asher.

¹⁸ Then said Lea, "God hath given me my reward, because I gave my maiden to my husband." And she called him Issachar.

²⁰ Then said she, "God hath endued me with a good dowry. Now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons." And called his name Zebulon.

²⁴ And she called his name Joseph, saying, "The LORD give me yet another son."

¹⁹ Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images.

³⁴ And Rachel took the images, and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not.

¹⁸ Then as her soul was departing, that she must die: she called his name Benoni. But his father called him Benjamin.

²² And it chanced, as Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and it came to Israel's ear. The sons of Jacob were twelve in number.

³ "Reuben, thou art mine eldest son, my might and the beginning of my strength, chief in receiving and chief in power. ⁴ As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

⁴ As unstable as water wast thou: thou shalt therefore not be the chiefest, for thou wentest up upon thy father's bed, and then defiledest thou my couch with going up.

⁴ "Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.

¹² "Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ¹³ "Thou shalt not kill.

²³ Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of silver nor gods of gold: in no wise shall ye do it.

²⁵ But and if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, see thou make it not of hewed stone, for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou shalt pollute it.

¹² "He that smiteth a man that he die, shall be slain for it. ¹³ If a man lay not await, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will point thee a place whither he shall flee. ¹⁴ If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he die.

¹⁷ And he that curseth his father or mother, shall be put to death for it.

¹⁹ Whosoever lieth with a beast, shall be slain for it.

²¹ Vex not a stranger, neither oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² Ye shall trouble no widow nor fatherless child: ²³ If ye shall trouble them, they shall cry unto me, and I will surely hear their cry; ²⁴ and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

² Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil: neither answer in a matter of plea that thou wouldest, to follow many, turn aside from the truth;

⁷ "Keep thee far from a false matter, and the Innocent and righteous see thou slay not; for I will not justify the wicked. ⁸ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous.

⁸ Thou shalt take no gifts, for gifts blind the seeing and pervert the words of the righteous. ⁹ Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of a stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.

⁴ Then Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early and made an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel,

¹ And when the people saw that it was long or Moses came down out of the mountain, they gathered themselves together and came unto Aaron and said unto him, "Up, and make us a god to go before us: for of this Moses, the fellow that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become." ² And Aaron said unto them, "Pluck off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons and of your daughters: and bring them unto me." ³ And all the people plucked off the golden earrings that were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron. ⁴ And he received them of their hands and fashioned it with a graver and made it a calf of molten metal. And they said, "This is thy God, O Israel, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt."

¹⁷ they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also. Thou shalt make thee no gods of metal.

¹ And the LORD called Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of witness, saying, ² "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Whosoever of you shall bring a gift unto the LORD, shall bring it of the cattle: even of the oxen and of the sheep. ³ If he bring a burnt offering of the oxen he shall offer a male without blemish, and shall bring him to the door of the tabernacle of witness, that he may be accepted before the LORD. ⁴ And let him put his hand upon the head of the burnt sacrifice, and favour shall be given him to make an atonement for him, ⁵ and let him kill the ox before the LORD. And let the priests, Aaron's sons, bring the blood and let them sprinkle it round about upon the altar that is before the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁶ And let the burnt offerings be stripped and hewed in pieces. ⁷ And then let the sons of Aaron the priest put fire upon the altar, and put wood upon the fire, ⁸ and let them lay the pieces with the head and the fat, upon the wood that is on the fire in the altar. ⁹ But the inwards and the legs they shall wash in water, and the priest shall burn altogether upon the altar, that it be a burnt sacrifice, and an offering of a sweet odour unto the LORD. ¹⁰ "'If he will offer a burnt sacrifice of the sheep whether it be of the lambs or of the goats: he shall offer a male without blemish. ¹¹ And let him kill it on the north side of the altar, before the LORD. And let the priests, Aaron's sons, sprinkle the blood of it, round about upon the altar. ¹² And let it be cut in pieces: even with his head and his fat, and let the priest put them upon the wood that lieth upon the fire in the altar. ¹³ But let him wash the inwards and the legs with water, and then bring altogether and burn it upon the altar: that is a burnt offering and a sacrifice of sweet savour unto the LORD. ¹⁴ "'If he will offer a burnt offering of the fowls unto the LORD, he shall offer either of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons. ¹⁵ And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring the neck asunder of it, and burn it on the altar, and let the blood run out upon the sides of the altar, ¹⁶ and pluck away his crop and his feathers, and cast them beside the altar on the east part upon the heap of ashes, ¹⁷ and break his wings, but pluck them not asunder. And then let the priest burn it upon the altar, even upon the wood that lieth upon the fire, a burnt sacrifice and an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD.'"

¹ If any man bring a peace offering of the oxen: whether it be male or female, he shall bring such as is without blemish, before the LORD, ² and let him put his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the door of the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about. ³ And they shall offer of the peace offering, to be a sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards; ⁴ and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon the loins; and the caul that is on the liver, they shall take away with the kidneys. ⁵ And Aaron's sons shall burn them upon the altar with the burnt sacrifice which is upon the wood on the fire. That is a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD. ⁶ "'If a man bring a peace offering unto the LORD from of the flock: whether it be male, or female, it shall be without blemish. ⁷ If he offer a lamb, he shall bring it before the LORD, ⁸ and put his hand upon his offering's head, and kill it in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about the altar. ⁹ And of the peace offering they shall bring a sacrifice unto the LORD: the fat thereof, and the rump altogether, which they shall take off hard by the back bone: and the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards, ¹⁰ and the two kidneys with the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the caul that is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. ¹¹ And the priest shall burn them upon the altar to feed the LORD's offering withal."' ¹² "'If the offering be a goat, he shall bring it before the LORD ¹³ and put his hand upon the head of it and kill it before the tabernacle of witness, and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about. ¹⁴ And he shall bring thereof his offering unto the LORD's sacrifice: the fat that covereth the inwards and all the fat that is upon the inwards, ¹⁵ and the two kidneys and the fat that lieth upon them and upon the loins, and the caul that is upon the liver he shall take away with the kidneys. ¹⁶ And the priest shall burn them upon the alter to feed the LORD's sacrifice withal and to make a sweet savour. And thus shall all the fat be the LORD's, ¹⁷ and it shall be a law forever among your generations after you in your dwelling places: that ye eat neither fat nor blood."'

¹¹ "'This is the law of the peace offerings which shall be offered unto the LORD. ¹² If he offer to give thanks, he shall bring unto his thank offering: sweet cakes mingled with oil and sweet wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil of fine flour fried, ¹³ and he shall bring his offering upon cakes made of leavened bread unto the thank offering of his peace offerings, ¹⁴ and of them all he shall offer one to be a heave offering unto the LORD, and it shall be the priests that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. ¹⁵ And the flesh of the thank offering of his peace offerings shall be eaten the same day that it is offered, and there shall none of it be laid up until the morning. ¹⁶ "'If it be a vow or a freewill offering that he bringeth, the same day that he offereth it, it shall be eaten, and that which remaineth may be eaten on the morrow: ¹⁷ but as much of the offered flesh as remaineth unto the third day shall be burned with fire.

⁸ The privities of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover, for they are thy father's privities. ⁹ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy sister, the daughter of thy father or of thy mother: whether she be born at home or without.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness.

²³ Thou shalt lie with no manner of beast to defile thyself therewith, neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto, for that is abomination.

² "Speak unto all the multitude of the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Be holy for I, the LORD your God, am holy. ³ See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God. ⁴ Ye shall not turn unto idols nor make you gods of metal: I am the LORD your God.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not curse the deaf, neither put a stumbling block before the blind: but shalt fear thy God. I am the LORD.

⁹ "'Whosoever curseth his father or mother, shall die for it, his blood on his head, because he hath cursed his father or mother.

¹¹ If a man lie with his father's wife and uncover his father's privities, they shall both die for it, their blood be upon their heads.

¹⁴ If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you. ¹⁵ If a man lie with a beast he shall die, and ye shall slay the beast.

¹⁷ "'If a man take his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and see her privities, and she see his privities also: it is a wicked thing. Therefore let them perish in the sight of their people; he hath seen his sister's secretness, he shall therefore bear his sin.

²⁴ But I have said unto you that ye shall enjoy their land, and that I will give it unto you to possess it: even a land that floweth with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other nations:

¹⁷ "He that killeth any man, shall die for it,

¹ Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the LORD your God;

²² and this bitter cursing water go into the bowels of thee, that thy womb burst and thy thigh rot. And the wife shall say: Amen, Amen.

²⁷ And they told him, saying, "We came unto the land whither thou sendedst us, and surely it is a land that floweth with milk and honey and here is of the fruit of it.

⁸ If the LORD have lust to us, he will bring us into this land and give it us, which is a land that floweth with milk and honey.

³¹ Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer, which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death.

¹ And now hearken, Israel, unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do them: that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. ² Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you, neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you.

¹⁶ lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman ¹⁷ or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air, ¹⁸ or of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth. ¹⁹ Yea, and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven. ²⁰ For the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. ²¹ Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inheritance. ²² For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land. ²³ Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

⁸ 'Thou shalt make thee no graven image of any manner likeness that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth.

¹ These are the commandments, ordinances and laws which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand. And they shall be papers of remembrance between thine eyes,

¹ Hear, Israel: thou goest over Jordan this day, to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than thyself: and cities great and walled up to heaven,

¹² And now, Israel, what is it that the LORD thy God requireth of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, ¹³ that thou keep the commandments of the LORD and his ordinances which I command thee this day, for thy wealth?

¹⁷ For the LORD your God, he is God of Gods and Lord of lords; a great God, a mighty and a terrible which regardeth no man's person nor taketh gifts: ¹⁸ but doeth right unto the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger, to give him food and raiment.

¹ Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments always.

⁷ For your eyes have seen all the great deeds of the LORD which he did. ⁸ Keep, therefore, all the commandments which I command thee this day that ye may be strong and go and conquer the land whither ye go to possess it,

²⁶ 'Behold, I set before you this day, a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ a blessing, if ye hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day; ²⁸ and a curse, if ye will not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God: but turn out of the way which I command you this day to go after strange gods which ye have not known.' ²⁹ When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, then put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal,

²⁹ When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, then put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal,

²⁹ When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, then put the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal, ³⁰ which are on the other side Jordan on the back side of the way toward the going down of the son in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the fields over against Gilgal beside Moreh grove. ³¹ For ye shall go over to go and possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and shall conquer it and dwell therein. ³² Take heed, therefore, that ye do all the commandments and laws, which I set before you this day.

⁷ And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye lay your hands on, both ye and your households, because the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.

¹² And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, both ye, your sons and your daughters, your servants and your maids and the Levite that is within your gates for he hath neither part nor inheritance with you.

¹¹ And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

¹⁴ And thou shalt rejoice in that thy feast; both thou and thy son, thy daughter, thy servant, thy maid, the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are in thy cities.

¹⁹ Wrest not the law, nor know any person, neither take any reward: for gifts blind the wise and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹¹ But and if there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities; ¹² Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's mark which they of old time have set in thine inheritance that thou inheritest in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to enjoy it.

¹⁸ If any man have a son that is stubborn, and disobedient, that he will not hearken unto the voice of his father and voice of his mother, and they have taught him nurture, but he would not hearken unto them: ¹⁹ Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place, ²⁰ and say unto the elders of the city, 'This, our son, is stubborn and disobedient and will not hearken unto our voice; he is a rioter and a drunkard.' ²¹ Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

³⁰ No man shall take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's covering.

¹⁷ Hinder not the right of the stranger nor of the fatherless, nor take widow's raiment to pledge.

¹ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit and hast enjoyed it and dwellest therein:

⁹ And he hath brought us into this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk and honey. ¹⁰ And now, lo: I have brought the first fruits of the land which the LORD hath given me.' And set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God, ¹¹ and rejoice over all the good things which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house, both thou the Levite and the stranger that is among you.

¹⁶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these ordinances and laws. Keep them, therefore, and do them with all thine heart and all thy soul.

¹⁶ This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these ordinances and laws. Keep them, therefore, and do them with all thine heart and all thy soul. ¹⁷ Thou hast set up the LORD this day to be thy God and to walk in his ways and to keep his ordinances, his commandments and his laws, and to hearken unto his voice. ¹⁸ And the LORD hath set thee up this day, to be a several people unto him — as he hath promised thee — and that thou keep his commandments,

³ and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee. ⁴ When ye be come over Jordan, see that ye set up these stones which I command you this day in mount Ebal, and plaster them with plaster.

¹⁵ 'Cursed be he that maketh any carved image or image of metal — an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman — and putteth it in a secret place.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'

¹⁵ "But and if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep and to do all his commandments and ordinances which I command thee this day; then all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee: ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the field;

¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the town, and cursed in the field; ¹⁷ cursed shall thine almery be and thy store.

¹⁷ cursed shall thine almery be and thy store. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep.

¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep. ¹⁹ And cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, and when thou goest out.

¹⁹ And cursed shalt thou be when thou goest in, and when thou goest out. ²⁰ And the LORD shall send upon thee cursing, going to nought, and complaining in all that thou settest thine hand to; whatsoever thou doest, until thou be destroyed and brought to nought quickly, because of the wickedness of thine inventions in that thou hast forsaken the LORD. ²¹ And the LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from the land whither thou goest to enjoy it. ²² And the LORD shall smite thee with swelling, with fevers, heat, burning, weathering, with smiting and blasting. And they shall follow thee, until thou perish. ²³ "And the heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee, iron. ²⁴ And the LORD shall turn the rain of the land unto powder and dust: even from heaven they shall come down upon thee, until thou be brought to nought. ²⁵ And the LORD shall plague thee before thine enemies: Thou shalt come out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them, and shalt be scattered among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy carcass shall be meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. ²⁷ "And the LORD will smite thee with the botches of Egypt and the hemorrhoids, scall and manginess, that thou shalt not be healed thereof. ²⁸ And the LORD shall smite thee with madness, blindness and dazing of heart. ²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday as the blind gropeth in darkness, and shalt not come to the right way. And thou shalt suffer violence and wrong all thy life long, and no man shall help thee. ³⁰ Thou shalt be betrothed unto a wife, and another shall lie with her. Thou shalt build a house and another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not make it common. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof. Thine ass shall be violently taken away even before thy face, and shall not be restored thee again. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and no man shall help thee. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another nation, and thine eyes shall see and daze upon them all day long, but shalt have no might in thine hand. ³³ The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always, ³⁴ that thou shalt be clean beside thyself for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ³⁵ "The LORD shall smite thee with a mischievous botch in the knees and legs, so that thou canst not be healed: even from the sole of the foot unto the top of the head. ³⁶ The LORD shall bring both thee and thy king which thou hast set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there thou shalt serve strange gods: even wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt go to waste and be made an example and a jestingstock unto all nations whither the LORD shall carry thee. ³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in: for the grasshoppers shall destroy it. ³⁹ Thou shalt plant a vineyard and dress it, but shalt neither drink of the wine neither gather of the grapes: for the worms shall eat it. ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees in all thy coasts, but shalt not be anointed with the oil: for thine olive trees shall be rooted out. ⁴¹ Thou shalt get sons and daughters, but shalt not have them: for they shall be carried away captive. ⁴² All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall be marred with blasting. ⁴³ The strangers that are among you shall climb above thee up on high, and thou shalt come down beneath a-low. ⁴⁴ He shall lend thee and thou shalt not lend him, he shall be before and thou behind. ⁴⁵ "Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee and shall follow thee and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedest not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which he commanded thee; ⁴⁶ and they shall be upon thee as miracles and wonders and upon thy seed for ever. ⁴⁷ And because thou servedest not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with a good heart for the abundance of all things, ⁴⁸ therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought. ⁴⁹ "And the LORD shall bring a nation upon thee from afar, even from the end of the world, as swift as an eagle flyeth: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; ⁵⁰ a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young. ⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought. ⁵² And he shall keep thee in all thy cities, until thy high and strong walls be come down wherein thou trustedest, through all thy land. And he shall besiege thee in all thy cities throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee. ⁵³ "And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body; the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee: ⁵⁴ so that it shall grieve the man that is tender, and exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left - ⁵⁵ for fear of giving unto any of them of the flesh of his children, which he eateth, because he hath nought left him in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in all thy cities. ⁵⁶ Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you that she dare not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for softness and tenderness, shall be grieved to look on the husband that lieth in her bosom and on her son and on her daughter - ⁵⁷ even because of the afterbirth, that is come out from between her legs, and because of her children which she hath borne, because she would eat them for need of all things; secretly, in the straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in thy cities. ⁵⁸ "If thou wilt not be diligent to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, for to fear this glorious and fearful name of the LORD thy God: ⁵⁹ the LORD will smite both thee and thy seed with wonderful plagues and with great plagues and of long continuance, ⁶⁰ and with evil sicknesses and of long durance. Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee. ⁶¹ Thereto, all manner sicknesses and all manner plagues which are not written in the book of this law, will the LORD bring upon thee until thou be come to nought. ⁶² And ye shall be left few in number, wheretofore ye were as the stars of heaven in multitude: because thou wouldest not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. ⁶³ "And as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it. ⁶⁴ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang before thee, and thou shalt fear both day and night and shalt have no trust in thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, 'Would God it were night.' And at night thou shalt say, 'Would God it were morning' — for fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ "And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way which I bade thee that thou shouldest see it no more. And there ye shall be sold unto your enemies, for bondmen and bondwomen: and yet no man shall buy you."

¹⁷ And ye have seen their abominations and their idols — wood, stone, silver, gold — which they had.

⁹ He that sayeth unto his father and mother, 'I saw him not,' and unto his brethren, 'I knew not,' and to his son, 'I know not': for they have observed thy words and kept thy covenant. ¹⁰ They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and Israel thy laws. They shall put cense before thy nose and whole sacrifices upon thine altar.

¹¹ "Go through the midst of the host, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare you victuals: for after three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go and enjoy the land which the LORD your God giveth you, to possess it.'"

¹ And as soon as the people were all gone over Jordan, the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

⁵ and said unto them, "Get you before the ark of the LORD your God, even into the midst of Jordan, and take up every man a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, ⁶ that this may be a sign among you. And when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What mean ye with these stones?' ⁷ Then say unto them, 'How that the water of Jordan divided at the presence of the ark of the covenant of the LORD: even while it went over Jordan, the water of Jordan divided.' And these stones shall be a memorial unto the children of Israel forever." ⁸ And the children of Israel did even so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD said unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them away with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. ⁹ And thereto Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood. And there they be, even unto this day. ¹⁰ For the priests that bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until all was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to say unto the people, according to all that Moses charged Joshua. And the people hasted and went over. ¹¹ When all the people were clean over, then went over the ark of the LORD, and also the priests before the people. ¹² And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh went before the children of Israel, armed, as Moses charged them. ¹³ About forty thousand, trimmed for war, went before the LORD unto battle; even unto the wild fields of Jericho. ¹⁴ That day, the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. And they feared him, as they feared Moses all the days of his life. ¹⁵ And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, ¹⁶ "Command the priests that bear the ark of witness to come up out of Jordan." ¹⁷ And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Ascend up out of Jordan." ¹⁸ And when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were ascended out of Jordan — as soon as the soles of the priests' feet were brought to dry land — the water of Jordan returned again to his place and went over all his banks as he did before. ¹⁹ And the people came up out of Jordan the tenth day of the first month and pitched in Gilgal even in the east borders of Jericho. ²⁰ And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua pitched in Gilgal. ²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask you in time to come saying, 'What mean these stones?' ²² Show your children and say, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.' ²³ For the LORD your God dried up the water of Jordan before you, until ye were over, as the LORD your God did unto the reed sea, which he dried up before us till we were over; ²⁴ that all the people of the world may know the hand of the LORD how mighty it is, and that ye might fear the LORD your God forever."

⁶ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people of men of war that came out of Egypt were consumed, which hearkened not unto the voice of God; so that the LORD sware, that he would not show them the land which the LORD sware unto their fathers, that he would give us even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

³⁰ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel, in mount Ebal, ³¹ as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, according as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of rough stone over which no tool of iron was lifted. And they sacrificed thereon burnt sacrifice, and offered peace offerings.

³¹ as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, according as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of rough stone over which no tool of iron was lifted. And they sacrificed thereon burnt sacrifice, and offered peace offerings.

³¹ as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, according as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of rough stone over which no tool of iron was lifted. And they sacrificed thereon burnt sacrifice, and offered peace offerings. ³² And he wrote there, upon the stones, the second law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

³² And he wrote there, upon the stones, the second law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. ³³ And all Israel and the elders thereof, and their officers and judges, stood part on this side the ark, and part on that side, before the priests: that were Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD — as well the stranger, as they that were born among them: half of them on the forefront of the Mount of Gerizim, and half of them on the forefront of mount Ebal: as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, first to bless the people of Israel.

³³ And all Israel and the elders thereof, and their officers and judges, stood part on this side the ark, and part on that side, before the priests: that were Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD — as well the stranger, as they that were born among them: half of them on the forefront of the Mount of Gerizim, and half of them on the forefront of mount Ebal: as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, first to bless the people of Israel.

³³ And all Israel and the elders thereof, and their officers and judges, stood part on this side the ark, and part on that side, before the priests: that were Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD — as well the stranger, as they that were born among them: half of them on the forefront of the Mount of Gerizim, and half of them on the forefront of mount Ebal: as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, first to bless the people of Israel. ³⁴ And after that he read all the words of the law, both the blessing and cursing, according to all that is written in the book of the law - ³⁵ so that there was not one word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not — before all the congregation of Israel, with women and children and the strangers that were among them.

⁷ And when it was told Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift up his voice and called, and said unto them, "Hearken unto me you citizens of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

¹⁹ Now hear therefore, my lord king, the words of thy servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, he shall smell the savour of sacrifice. But and if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD. For they have cast me out from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Hence and go serve other gods.'

²⁷ And when Abner was come again to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate, to speak with him guilefully, and there smote him under the short ribs that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

¹⁵ And he wrote in the letter saying, "Put Uriah in the forefront of the battle where it is most strong, and come back from him that he may be smitten to death." ¹⁶ And as Joab beseiged the city he assigned Uriah unto a place where he wist that strong men were. ¹⁷ And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And there were certain overthrown of the people and of the servants of David — and Uriah the Hittite died also.

⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do wickedness in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword and hast taken his wife to thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house, because thou hast despised me and taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite, to be thy wife.' ¹¹ Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Behold, I will stir up evil against thee even of thine own house and will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, which shall sleep with them in the sight of the sun. ¹² And thou didst it secretly, yet will I do this thing before all Israel and in the open sunlight.'"

¹ And it chanced that Absalom, David's son, had a fair sister named Tamar, whom afterward Amnon, another son of David, loved.

⁸ When Tamar came to her brother Amnon's house, he lay. And she took flour and made paste and made fritters in his sight and did bake them, ⁹ and took a platter and poured them out before him. And Amnon would not eat, but commanded to have out all men from him. And they went all out from him. ¹⁰ Then said Amnon unto Tamar, "Bring the meat into the chamber that I may eat it of thine hand." And Tamar took the fritters which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother, ¹¹ and set them before him to eat. And he took her and said unto her, "Come, lie with me my sister." ¹² And she answered him, "Nay, my brother, do not force me, for it ought not to be so in Israel. Do not this folly. ¹³ For whither shall I go with my shame? And thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel. But speak unto the king, and he shall not deny me unto thee." ¹⁴ Howbeit, he would not hearken unto her voice but was too strong for her and forced her and lay with her.

²⁸ Then Absalom commanded his young men, saying, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I bid you smite Amnon, then kill him. Fear not, for it is I that bid you. Be bold therefore and play the lusty bloods."

²² And so they pitched Absalom a tent upon the top of the house. And he went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, "Are all things in rest and peace my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the chin with the right hand, as though he would have kissed him. ¹⁰ And Amasa took no heed to the knife that was in Joab's hand, with which Joab smote him in the short ribs, and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him but one stroke, and he died. And then Joab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the son of Bichri.

⁵ And Solomon followed Ashtaroth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ⁶ And Solomon wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD and continued not after the LORD as did David his father. ⁷ After that, Solomon built an altar for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites in the hill that standeth before Jerusalem, and unto Moloch the abomination of the children of Ammon.

³¹ And he took twelve stones according to the number of the twelve tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came saying, "Israel shall be thy name." ³² And with the stones he made an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a gutter round about the altar, able to receive two pecks of corn.

¹⁹ And thereto Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the ordinances of Israel which they had made.

¹³ And the hill altars that were before Jerusalem on the righthand of the mount Nashith, which Solomon king of Israel built to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and to Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and to Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled:

¹ The sons of Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: for he was the eldest. But because he defied his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, and so he is not reckoned unto the birthright.

²³ And the whole assembly took counsel to keep seven days more: and they held those seven days with gladness. ²⁴ For Hezekiah king of Judah gave for heave offerings to the congregation a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep. And the lords gave to the congregation for heave offerings a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep. And the priests sanctified themselves, that they were enough. ²⁵ And all the congregation of Judah with the priests and Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel and the strangers, both that came out of the land of Israel and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced: ²⁶ and there was great joy in Jerusalem. For since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel it happened not so in Jerusalem. ²⁷ And the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer went up unto his holy dwelling place heaven.

² And he did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

⁷ And Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to give heed unto the law, and the people stood in their place. ⁸ And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and plainly, so that men understood the thing that was read.

¹⁰ Therefore said he unto them, "Go your way, and eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send part unto them also that have not prepared themselves: for this day is holy unto our LORD. Be not ye sorry therefore: for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

¹⁵ I was an eye unto the blind, and a foot to the lame;

⁵ He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god, ²¹ should not God find it out? For he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

² How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah. ³ Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right. ⁴ Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

¹ {A Psalm of Praise} O be joyful in the lord, all ye lands; ² serve the LORD with gladness, and come before his presence with a song.

²¹ Thou rebukest the proud; and cursed are they that depart from thy commandments.

¹¹ if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause: ¹² Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit. ¹³ So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils. ¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse." ¹⁵ My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways. ¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood. ¹⁷ But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes. ¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another. ¹⁹ These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life. ²⁰ Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets. ²¹ She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying, ²² "O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge? ²³ O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words. ²⁴ Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it, ²⁵ but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught. ²⁶ Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you: ²⁷ even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you. ²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. ²⁹ And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,

²³ The ungodly taketh gifts out of the bosom, to wrest the ways of judgment.

²⁸ Thou shalt not remove the landmark, which thy fore elders have set.

¹⁰ Remove not the old landmark, and come not within the field of the fatherless. ¹¹ For he that delivereth them is mighty, even he shall defend their cause against thee.

¹⁰ Whoso leadeth the righteous in to an evil way, shall fall into his own pit; but the just shall have the good in possession.

¹¹ He that bringeth up an evil report upon the generation of his father and mother, is not worthy to be commended. ¹² The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness. ¹³ There are people that have a proud look, and cast up their eyelids. ¹⁴ This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men. ¹⁵ This generation which is like a horse-leech, hath two daughters; the one is called "fetch hither," and the other "bring hither." ¹⁶ There be three things that are never satisfied, and the fourth sayeth never, "Hoo." The hell, a woman's womb, and the earth hath never water enough. As for fire, it sayeth never, "Hoo." ¹⁷ Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.

⁵ Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.

³ And ye shall draw water in gladness out of the wells of salvation.

⁹ All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded. ¹⁰ Who should now make a God, or fashion an Image, that is profitable for nothing?

¹⁷ And of the residue he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth unto it, and sayeth, "Deliver me, for thou art my god!"

¹⁹ They ponder not in their minds, for they have neither knowledge nor understanding, to think thus, "I have burnt one piece in the fire; I have baked bread with the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh withal, and eaten it: shall I now of the residue make an abomination, and fall down before a rotten piece of wood?"

¹⁰ For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

³ That I might give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty in the stead of ashes, joyful ointment for sighing, pleasant raiment for a heavy mind; That they might be called excellent in righteousness, a planting of the LORD for him to rejoice in.

¹⁰ And therefore I am joyful in the LORD, and my soul rejoiceth in my God. For he shall put upon me the garment of salvation, and cover me with the mantle of righteousness. He shall deck me like a bridegroom, and as a bride that hath her apparel upon her.

³ And say thou unto them, Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Cursed be every one that is not obedient unto the words of this covenant

³ And say thou unto them, Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Cursed be every one that is not obedient unto the words of this covenant ⁴ which I commanded unto your fathers; what time as I brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Be obedient unto my voice, and do according to all that I commanded you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God, ⁵ and will keep my promise, that I have sworn unto your fathers: Namely, that I would give them a land which floweth with milk and honey, as ye see it is come to pass unto this day." Then answered I, and said, "Amen. It is even so, O LORD, as thou sayest."

⁵ and will keep my promise, that I have sworn unto your fathers: Namely, that I would give them a land which floweth with milk and honey, as ye see it is come to pass unto this day." Then answered I, and said, "Amen. It is even so, O LORD, as thou sayest."

²⁴ May any man hide himself so, that I shall not see him, sayeth the LORD? Do not I fulfill heaven and earth, sayeth the LORD?

⁶ And the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen, the LORD do that, and grant the thing which thou hast prophesied: that he may bring again all the ornaments of the LORD's house, and restore all the prisoners from Babylon into this place.

³¹ Behold, the days come, sayeth the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: ³² not after the covenant that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, and led them out of the land of Egypt: which covenant they brake, wherefore I punished them sore, sayeth the LORD: ³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, sayeth the LORD: I will plant my law in the inward parts of them, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

²² and hast given them this land, like as thou hadst promised unto their fathers: Namely, that thou wouldest give them a land, that floweth with milk and honey.

²⁰ because they made thereof not only costly Jewels for their pomp and pride, but also abominable images and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred.

⁷ And with that brought he me to the court gate: and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. ⁸ Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man, dig through the wall." And when I digged through the wall, behold there was a door. ⁹ And he said unto me, "Go thy way in, and look what wicked abominations they do there." ¹⁰ So I went in, and saw: and behold, there were all manner of images of worms and beasts, all Idols and abominations of the house of Israel painted every which one round about the wall. ¹¹ There stood also before the images: Seventy lords of the counsel of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. And every one of them had a censor in his hand, and out of the incense there went a smoke, as it had been a cloud. ¹² Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man, hast thou seen what the Senators of the house of Israel do secretly, everyone in his chamber? For they say, 'Tush, the LORD seeth us not, the LORD regardeth not the world.'"

¹⁹ And I will give you one heart, and will plant a new spirit within your bowels. That stony heart will I take out of your body, and give you a fleshly heart:

⁴ Therefore speak unto them, and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Every man of the house of Israel that beareth his Idols in his heart, purposing to stumble in his own wickedness, and cometh to a prophet, to enquire anything at me by him: unto that man will I the LORD myself give answer, according to the multitude of his idols:

²⁴ And so if a righteous turn from his righteousness and do wickedness, and shall do like unto all the abominations which a wicked doth, shall he live? No, none of those righteousness that he did shall be remembered. But in the wickedness which he wrought, and in the sin which he did, in them shall he die.

⁷ In thee have they despised father and mother, in thee have they oppressed the stranger, in thee have they vexed the widow and the fatherless.

¹⁰ In thee have they discovered their fathers' shame, in thee have they vexed women in their sickness. ¹¹ Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter. ¹² Yea, gifts have been received in thee to shed blood. Thou hast taken usury and increase, thou hast oppressed thy neighbours by extortion, and forgotten me, sayeth the LORD God. ¹³ Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart, and will put a new spirit in you. And will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and give you a fleshly heart.

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed, and gone back from thy law, so that they have not hearkened unto thy voice. Wherefore the curse and oath, that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, against whom we have offended, is poured upon us.

³¹ He shall set mighty men to unhallow the Sanctuary of strength, and to put down the daily offering, and to set up the abominable desolation.

² And now they sin more and more. Of their silver, they make them molten Images, like the idols of the Heathen, and yet all is nothing but the work of the craftsmen. Notwithstanding they preach of the same: whoso will kiss the calves, offereth to men. ³ Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that early passeth away, and like as dust that the wind taketh away from the floor, and as smoke that goeth out of the chimney.

⁷ They tread upon poor men's heads, in the dust of the earth, and crook the ways of the meek. The son and the father go to the harlot, to dishonour my holy name,

⁹ O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight; ¹⁰ Ye that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with doing wrong. ¹¹ O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

⁵ Therefore, whereas all people have walked every man in the name of his own god, we will walk in the name of our God for ever and ever.

⁸ I will show thee, O man, what is good, and what the LORD requireth of thee: Namely, to do right, to have pleasure in loving-kindness, to be lowly, and to walk with thy God.

² There is not a godly man upon earth, there is not one righteous among men. They labour all to shed blood, and every man hunteth his brother to death: ³ yet they say they do well when they do evil. As the prince will, so sayeth the judge: that he may do him a pleasure again. The great man speaketh what his heart desireth; and the hearers allow him.

² But the LORD answered me, and said, "Write the vision plainly upon thy tables, that whoso cometh by, may read it:

¹⁸ But as for me, I will be glad in the LORD, and will rejoice in God my Saviour.

⁷ For the priest's lips should be sure knowledge, that men may seek the law at his mouth, for he is a messenger of the LORD of Hosts. ⁸ But as for you, ye are gone clean out of the way, and have caused the multitude to be offended at the law: ye have broken the covenant of Levi, sayeth the LORD of Hosts. ⁹ Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

⁴⁸ Ye shall therefore be perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect.

¹³ Lead us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.

⁴ For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.' ⁵ But ye say, 'Every man shall say to his father or mother: That which thou desirest of me to help thee with, is given God.' ⁶ And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions.

¹⁴ Let them alone, they be the blind leaders of the blind. If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

¹⁵ When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination that betokeneth desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place: let him that readeth it, understand it:

⁴¹ Then shall the King say unto them that shall be on the left hand, 'Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his angels.

¹⁵ and said, "What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?" And they appointed unto him thirty pieces of silver.

³ Then when Judas, which betrayed him, saw that he was condemned, he repented himself; and brought again the thirty plates of silver to the chief priests and elders, ⁴ saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."

²⁸ But he said, "Yea, happy are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

²⁵ These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs. The time will come when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs: but I shall show you plainly from my father.

¹⁸ And the same hath now possessed a plot of ground with the reward of iniquity. And when he was hanged, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

³⁶ Ye know the preaching that God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, which is Lord over all things;

¹⁹ Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God, ²⁰ because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

¹ Because therefore that we are justified by faith we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

¹⁰ For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son: much more, seeing we are reconciled, we shall be preserved by his life.

¹⁷ God be thanked, that though ye were once the servants of sin, ye have yet obeyed with your heart unto the form of doctrine where unto ye were delivered. ¹⁸ Ye are then made free from sin, and are become the servants of righteousness.

²² But now are ye delivered from sin, and made the servants of God, and have your fruit that ye should be sanctified; and the end: everlasting life.

⁵ Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

¹ There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

⁹ Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind, ¹⁰ neither thieves, neither the covetous, neither drunkards, neither cursed speakers, neither extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were ye verily: but ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified by the name of the Lord Jesus: And by the spirit of our God.

¹⁶ For else when thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say "amen" at thy giving of thanks? Seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

²² If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, the same be anathema. Maranatha.

² Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is understood and read of all men; ³ in that ye are known, how that ye are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us and written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

¹² Seeing then that we have such trust, we use great boldness;

¹⁰ For as many as are under the deeds of the law, are under malediction. For it is written, "Cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to fulfil them."

¹⁶ And to reconcile both unto God in one body through his cross, and slew hatred thereby: ¹⁷ and came, and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk; in vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. ¹⁹ Which, being past repentance, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all manner of uncleanness even with greediness. ²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ If so be ye have heard of him, and are taught in him, even as the truth is in Jesus: ²² so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts, ²³ and be ye renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and put on that new man, which after the image of God is shapen in righteousness, and true holiness.

² and walk in love even as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice of a sweet savour to God.

⁸ Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light. ⁹ For the fruit of the spirit is, in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.

³ For we are circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice.

²⁰ and by him to reconcile all things unto himself, and to set at peace by him through the blood of his cross both things in heaven and things in earth.

¹ Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God. ² Ye remember what commandments we gave you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁶ Now hath he obtained a more excellent office, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better testament, which was made for better promises. ⁷ For if that first testament had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. ⁸ For in rebuking them he saith, "Behold the days will come, saith the Lord, and I will finish upon the house of Israel, and upon the house of Judah, a new testament; ⁹ not like the testament that I made with their fathers at that time, when I took them by the hands, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the testament that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds, and in their hearts, I will write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

¹⁶ "This is the testament that I will make unto them after those days saith the Lord. And I will put my laws in their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,

²⁰ The God of peace that brought again from death our Lord Jesus Christ, the great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting testament, ²¹ make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ: To whom be praise for ever while the world endureth. Amen.

¹⁰ Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all.

¹⁴ as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves unto your old lusts of ignorance: ¹⁵ But as he which called you is holy, even so be ye holy in all manner of conversation, ¹⁶ because it is written, "Be ye holy, for I am holy."

¹⁰ which in time past were not a people, yet are now the people of God, which were not under mercy: but now have obtained mercy. ¹¹ Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul,

¹ Forasmuch as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he which suffereth in the flesh ceaseth from sin, ² that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God. ³ For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.

¹⁴ But I have a few things against thee: that thou hast, there, they that maintain the doctrine of Balaam, which taught in Balak to put occasion of sin before the children of Israel, that they should eat of meat dedicated unto idols, and to commit fornication.

⁴ And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold, precious stone, and pearls, and had a cup of gold in her hand, full of abominations, and filthiness of her fornication. ⁵ And in her forehead was a name written, a mystery: "Great Babylon, the mother of whoredom and abominations of the earth."