Genesis 25 Cross References - MSTC

¹ Abraham took him another wife called Keturah, ² which bare him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. ³ And Jockshan begat Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim and Leummim. ⁴ And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. ⁵ But Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. ⁶ And unto the sons of his concubines he gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son — while he yet lived — eastward, unto the east country. ⁷ These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years ⁸ and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age — when he had lived enough — and was put unto his people. ⁹ And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre. ¹⁰ Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife. ¹¹ And after the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, which dwelt by the well of the living and seeing. ¹² These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, which Hagar the Egyptian, Sara's handmaid, bare unto Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, with their names in their kindreds. The eldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ¹⁴ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵ Hadar, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their towns and castles; twelve princes of nations. ¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people. ¹⁸ And he dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as men go toward the Assyrians. And he died in the presence of all his brethren. ¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac. ²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia and sister to Laban the Syrian. ²¹ And Isaac made intercession unto the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. ²² And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD. ²³ And the LORD said unto her, "There are two manner of people in thy womb, and two nations shall spring out of thy bowels, and the one nation shall be mightier than the other and the eldest shall be servant unto the younger." ²⁴ And when her time was come to be delivered, behold, there were two twins in her womb. ²⁵ And he that came out first was red and rough over all, as it were a hide: and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand holding Esau by the heel. Wherefore his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was forty years old when she bare them: ²⁷ and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents. ²⁸ Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his venison, but Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹ Jacob sod pottage, and Esau came from the field and was fainty, ³⁰ and said to Jacob, "Let me sip of that red pottage, for I am fainty." And therefore was his name called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, "Sell me this day thy birthright." ³² And Esau answered, "Lo, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do me?" ³³ And Jacob said, "Swear to me then this day." And he swore to him and sold his birthright unto Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of red rice. And he ate and drank and rose up and went his way. And so Esau regarded not his birthright.

¹¹ The name of the one is Pishon; he it is that compasseth all the land of Havilah, where gold groweth.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man and uncorrupt in his time, and walked with God.

⁷ The sons of Cush: were Seva, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah were: Sheba, and Dedan.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD, whereof came the proverb "he is as Nimrod, that mighty hunter in the sight of the LORD."

²⁹ Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these are the sons of Joktan.

³⁰ But Sarai was barren and had no child.

² And I will make of thee a mighty people, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, that thou mayst be a blessing.

⁴ And Abram went as the LORD bade him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy five years old, when he went out of Haran.

¹⁰ Then Lot lift up his eyes, and beheld all the country about Jordan: that it was a plenteous country of water. For, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, it was round about Zoar, even as the pleasant garden of the LORD, and as the land of Egypt.

¹⁰ And that vale of Siddim was full of slime pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there. And the residue fled to the mountains.

²² And Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high, possessor of heaven and earth,

² And Abram answered, "LORD Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? I go childless, and the cater of mine house, this Eliezer of Damascus, hath a son." ³ And Abram said, "See, to me hast thou given no seed: lo, a lad born in my house shall be mine heir!"

¹⁵ Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:

² Wherefore she said unto Abram, "Behold the LORD hath closed me, that I can not bear. I pray thee go in unto my maid, peradventure I shall be multiplied by means of her." And Abram heard the voice of Sarai. ³ Then Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid the Egyptian — after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan — and gave her to her husband Abram, to be his wife.

¹⁰ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, "I will so increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude." ¹¹ And the LORD's angel said further unto her, "See, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation. ¹² He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren."

¹² He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren." ¹³ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me." ¹⁴ Wherefore she called the well, "the well of the living that seeth me" which well is between Kadesh and Bered.

¹⁴ Wherefore she called the well, "the well of the living that seeth me" which well is between Kadesh and Bered. ¹⁵ And Hagar bare Abram a son, and Abram called his son's name which Hagar bare, Ishmael.

⁴ "I am. Behold, my covenant is with thee, that thou shalt be a father of many nations.

¹⁶ For I will bless her and give thee a son of her; and will bless her so that people, yea and kings of people, shall spring of her."

¹⁶ For I will bless her and give thee a son of her; and will bless her so that people, yea and kings of people, shall spring of her." ¹⁷ And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sara, that is ninety years old, bear?" ¹⁸ And Abraham said unto God, "O that Ishmael might live in thy sight!" ¹⁹ Then said God, "Nay. Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my covenant with him, that it shall be an everlasting covenant unto his seed after him.

¹⁹ Then said God, "Nay. Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my covenant with him, that it shall be an everlasting covenant unto his seed after him. ²⁰ And as concerning Ishmael also, I have heard thy request: lo, I will bless him and increase him, and multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants born in his house, and all that was bought with money; as many as were men children among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the foreskin of their flesh, even the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

¹ And Abraham departed thence toward the south country and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur and sojourned in Gerar.

⁹ Sara saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had borne unto Abraham, a mocking. ¹⁰ Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."

¹⁰ Then she said unto Abraham, "Put away this bondmaid and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son Isaac." ¹¹ But the word seemed very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. ¹² Then the LORD said unto Abraham, "Let it not be grievous unto thee, because of the lad and of thy bondmaid: But in all that Sara hath said unto thee, hear her voice, for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ¹³ Moreover of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed." ¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle with water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulders with the lad also, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered up and down in the wilderness of Beersheba.

²⁰ And God was with the lad, and he grew and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. ²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother got him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ that I will bless thee and multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand upon the sea side. And thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies.

²³ And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

¹ Sara was a hundred and twenty seven years old, for so long lived she, ² and then died in a head-city called Hebron in the land of Canaan. Then Abraham came to mourn Sara and to weep for her.

⁹ and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in." ¹⁰ For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying, ¹¹ "Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy dead in." ¹² Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land, ¹³ and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying, "I pray thee hear me: I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so will I bury my dead there." ¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, ¹⁵ "My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead." ¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.

¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants. ¹⁷ Thus was the field of Ephron wherein the double cave is before Mamre — even the field and the cave that is therein, and all the trees of the field which grow in all the borders round about — made sure unto Abraham for a possession, ¹⁸ in the sight of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the city. ¹⁹ And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And so both the field and the cave that is therein, was made unto Abraham a sure possession to bury in, of the sons of Heth.

³ that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell.

²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother called Laban. And Laban ran out unto the man, to the well:

³⁶ And Sara my master's wife bare him a son, when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, "Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies."

⁶² And Isaac was a coming from the well of the living and seeing, for he dwelt in the south country,

⁶⁷ Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

¹ Abraham took him another wife called Keturah,

⁷ These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years

⁷ These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years ⁸ and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age — when he had lived enough — and was put unto his people.

¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people.

²⁷ and the boys grew, and Esau became a cunning hunter and a tillman. But Jacob was a simple man and dwelled in the tents.

³ Now therefore take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and get thee to the fields, and take me some venison, ⁴ and make me meat such as I love, and bring it me and let me eat that my soul may bless thee before that I die."

⁴ and make me meat such as I love, and bring it me and let me eat that my soul may bless thee before that I die." ⁵ But Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And as soon as Esau was gone to the field to catch venison, and to bring it, ⁶ she spake unto Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I have heard thy father talking with Esau thy brother, and saying, ⁷ 'bring me venison and make me meat, that I may eat and bless thee before the LORD yer I die.'

⁹ get thee to the flock, and bring me thence two good kids, and I will make meat of them for thy father, such as he loveth.

¹¹ Then said Jacob to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is rough and I am smooth.

¹⁶ and she put the skins upon his hands and upon the smooth of his neck.

¹⁹ And Jacob said unto his father, "I am Esau, thy eldest son. I have done according as thou baddest me: up and sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me."

²³ And he knew him not, because his hands were rough as his brother Esau's hands and so he blessed him.

²⁵ Then said he, "Bring me and let me eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee." And he brought him, and he ate. And he brought him wine also, and he drank.

²⁹ People be thy servants, and nations bow unto thee. Be lord over thy brethren, and thy mother's children stoop unto thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee."

³¹ and had made also meat, and brought it in unto his father and said unto him, "Arise my father and eat of thy son's venison, that thy soul may bless me."

³⁶ Then said he, "He may well be called Jacob, for he hath undermined me now two times — first he took away my birthright; and see, now hath he taken away my blessing also." And he said, "Hast thou kept never a blessing for me?"

⁴⁰ And with thy sword shalt thou live and shalt be thy brother's servant; But the time will come, when thou shalt get the mastery, and loose his yoke from off thy neck."

¹ Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

⁵ Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ⁶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him to Mesopotamia, to fetch him a wife thence, and that, as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying 'see thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,'

¹⁰ Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran, ¹¹ and came unto a place and tarried there all night, because the son was down. And took a stone of the place, and put it under his head, and laid him down in the same place to sleep.

⁴ And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife. And Jacob went in unto her:

⁹ When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

¹⁸ and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan.

²⁰ And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."

³⁹ Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day or night. ⁴⁰ Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes. ⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.

⁶ And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."

²² and rose up the same night and took his two wives and his two maidens and his eleven sons, and went over the ford Jabbok.

³ And he went before them and fell on the ground seven times, until he came unto his brother.

⁹ And God appeared unto Jacob again after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him,

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.

²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years: ²⁹ and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

²⁹ and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

¹ These are the generations of Esau, which is called Edom.

³ And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter and sister of Nebaioth.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters and all the souls of his house; his goods and all his cattle and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their riches was so much that they could not dwell together; and that the land wherein they were strangers could not receive them, because of their cattle.

⁹ These are the generations of Esau, father of the Edomites, in mount Seir,

³¹ These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king among the children of Israel.

³⁵ And after the death of Husham, Hadad the son of Bedad, which slew the Midianites in the field of the Moabites, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith.

⁴³ duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Idumaea in their habitations, in the land of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomites.

²⁸ Then as the Midianites merchant men passed by, they drew Joseph out of the pit and sold him unto the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought him into Egypt.

³⁶ And the Midianites sold him in Egypt unto Potiphar, a lord of Pharaoh's: and his chief marshal.

²⁸ And as she travailed, the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound a red thread about it, saying, "This will come out first." ²⁹ But he plucked his hand back again, and his brother came out. And she said, "Wherefore hast thou rent a rent upon thee?" And called him Perez. ³⁰ And afterward came out his brother that had the red thread about his hand, which was called Zerah.

³⁴ say, 'Thy servants have been occupied about cattle, from our childhood unto this time: both we and our fathers,' that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen. For an abomination unto the Egyptians are all that feed sheep."

⁸ And Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How old art thou?" ⁹ And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

²⁹ And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

²⁹ And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in. ³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sara his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Lea:

³³ When Jacob had commanded all that he would unto his sons, he plucked up his feet upon the bed and died, and was put unto his people.

¹³ And his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in the double cave which Abraham had bought with the field to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

²⁴ And Joseph said unto his brethren, "I die; And God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

¹⁵ And Pharaoh heard of it and went about to slay Moses: but he fled from Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well's side. ¹⁶ The priest of Midian had seven daughters which came and drew water and filled the troughs, for to water their father's sheep.

¹⁵ Then the dukes of the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, and all the inhabiters of Canaan waxed faint-hearted.

¹ Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done unto Moses and to Israel his people; how that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. ² And he took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after she was sent back; ³ and her two sons, of which the one was called Gershom — for he said, "I have been an alien in a strange land" - ⁴ And the other was called Eliezer - "For the God of my father was mine help and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh."

⁹ And in all manner of trespass, whether it be ox, ass, sheep, raiment or any manner lost thing which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges. And whom the judges condemn: the same shall pay double unto his neighbor.

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, "Thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath happened us,

¹⁴ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, "Thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath happened us, ¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt, and how we have dwelt in Egypt a long time, and, how the Egyptians vexed both us and our fathers. ¹⁶ Then we cried unto the LORD and he heard our voices, and sent an angel and hath fetched us out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city hard by the borders of thy country: ¹⁷ let us go a good fellowship through thy country: we will not go through the fields nor through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will go by the highway and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left, until we be past thy country." ¹⁸ And Edom answered him, "See thou come not by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword." ¹⁹ And the children of Israel said unto him, "We will go by the beaten way: and if either we or our cattle drink of thy water, we will pay for it, we will do no more but pass through by foot only." ²⁰ And he said, "Ye shall not go through." And Edom came out against him with much people and with a mighty power. ²¹ And thus Edom denied to give Israel passage through his country; And Israel turned away from him.

²⁴ "Let Aaron be put unto his people, for he shall not come into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel: because ye disobeyed my mouth at the water of strife.

⁴ And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, "Now this company hath licked up all that are round about us, as an ox licketh up the grass of the field." And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

¹⁷ "Vex the Midianites and smite them, ¹⁸ for they have troubled you with their wiles with thee, which they have beguiled you, through Peor and through their sister Cozbi the daughter of a lord in Midian, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's sake."

¹³ And when thou hast seen it, thou shalt be gathered unto thy people also; as Aaron thy brother was gathered unto his people.

² "Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterward be gathered unto thy people."

⁸ And they slew the kings of Midian among other that were slain; Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba: five kings of Midian. And they slew Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

⁷ Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother: neither shalt thou abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.

⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, 'The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people.

¹⁰ And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel.

¹ And the children of Israel committed wickedness in the sight of the LORD. And the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Midianites seven years. ² And when the hand of the Midianites was sore upon Israel, the children of Israel made them dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds. ³ For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them,

³ For when Israel had sown then came the Midianites, the Amalekites, and they of the east country upon them and pitched their tents against them, ⁴ and destroyed the increase of the earth even unto Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel; neither sheep, ox or ass, ⁵ for they came with their cattle and households even as grasshoppers in multitude: so that both they and also their camels were without number. And they entered the land to destroy it. ⁶ And so was Israel exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites and cried unto the LORD. ⁷ And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites, ⁸ the LORD sent a prophet unto them, and said unto them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: I fetched you from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage

⁴ And then Gideon came to Jordan and passed over, both he and the three hundred men that were with him, very faint and yet followed the chase. ⁵ And he said unto the men of Succoth, "Give I pray you cakes of bread unto the people that follow me: for they be fainty, that I may follow after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian."

³² And Gideon the son of Joash died, when he was of a good age, and was buried in the burial of Joash his father, even in Ophrah that pertained unto the father of the Abiezrites.

¹ It chanced in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, took to wife a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah: ² which concubine played the whore in his house, and went away from him, unto her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and there continued four months.

⁴ And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, kept him that he abode with him three days and so they ate and drank and lodged there.

² which had two wives, the one called Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

¹¹ and vowed a vow and said, "LORD of Hosts, if thou wilt look on the wretchedness of thine handmaid and shalt remember me and not forget thine handmaid, and shalt give unto thine handmaid a man child I will give him unto the LORD all the days of his life and there shall neither razor or shears come upon his head."

²⁷ And for this lad I prayed, and the LORD hath given me my desire which I asked of him:

⁹ Before time in Israel, when a man went to seek an answer of God, thus wise he spake: "Come, and let us go to the Seer." For he that is now called a prophet, was in the old time called a Seer.

²² Then they asked the LORD further, whither the man should come thither. And the LORD answered, "Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff."

²⁸ Then spake one of the people, and said, "Thy father adjured the people, saying, 'Cursed be the man that eateth any sustenance this day.'" And yet the people were fainty.

³¹ And they laid on the Philistines that day, from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were exceeding fainty.

⁷ And Saul slew the Amalekites from Havilah to Shur that lieth before Egypt,

¹⁵ Have I this day begun first to ask counsel of God for him? God forbid that from me: let not the king put such a thing unto his servant and on all the house of my father. For thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, either less or more."

⁶ And Saul asked counsel of the LORD, but the LORD answered him not: neither by dream, nor by the light, nor yet by prophets.

⁸ And David asked the LORD, saying, "Shall I follow after this company? And shall I overtake them?" And he said to him, "Follow, for thou shalt overtake them and recover the prey."

⁹ and made him king over Gilead and over the Asherites, and over Jezreel; and over Ephraim and Benjamin and over all Israel.

¹⁴ And he put keepers in Edom, even throughout all Edom put he soldiers; and all Edom became his servants. And the LORD kept David whatsoever he took in hand.

¹ And the queen of Sheba heard of the wisdom of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, and came to prove him with riddles.

⁴⁷ There was then no king in Edom; the king was but a deputy.

²⁰ And in his days Edom fell away from under the hand of Judah, and made them a king of their own.

²⁹ In his days, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went against the king of Assyria to the river of Euphrates. And king Josiah went against him, and was slain of him at Megiddo when he had seen him.

²⁹ And these are their generations: the eldest son of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, and Mibsam; ³⁰ Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema; ³¹ Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. ³² The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbok and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

³² The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbok and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. ³³ The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

¹⁹ And they fought with the Hagrities and with Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. ²⁰ And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hands with all that were with the Hagrites. For they cried to God in their battle, and he heard them, because they trusted to him.

¹³ and put Soldiers in Edom, and all Edom became David's servants: for the LORD kept David in all that he took in hand.

²⁸ And he died in a good age: old, rich and glorious. And Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

¹¹ And Amaziah took heart and carried out his host and went to Saltdale, where he slew of the children of Seir ten thousand. ¹² And other ten thousand the children of Judah took alive, and carried them unto the top of a rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they all to burst:

¹³ and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.

²³ So we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he heard us.

¹ In the land of Uz, there was a man called Job: an innocent and virtuous man, such a one as feared God, and eschewed evil.

³ His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

⁸ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, and how that he is an innocent and virtuous man: such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land?"

³ Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

¹¹ Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.

¹⁹ Consider the paths of Tema, and the ways of Sheba, wherein they have put their trust.

¹⁵ What manner of fellow is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, to submit ourselves unto him?'

¹⁷ which said unto God, 'Go from us.' And what did the Almighty do with them?

⁹ For he sayeth, 'Though a man be good, yet is he naught before God.'

¹⁷ And so he died, being old and of a perfect age.

¹⁴ From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure. ¹⁵ They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

³⁷ Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

⁸ Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; Philistia shall be glad of me. ⁹ Who will lead me into the strong city? Who will bring me into Edom?

² Thou that hearest the prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

¹⁸ Thou art gone up on high; thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men, yea, even for thine enemies, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall give presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts.

⁶⁴ Their priests were slain with the sword, and there were no widows to made lamentation.

⁵ For they have cast their heads together with one consent, and are confederate against thee. ⁶ The tabernacles of the Edomites, and Ishmaelites, the Moabites, and the Hagrites.

⁶ The tabernacles of the Edomites, and Ishmaelites, the Moabites, and the Hagrites. ⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre. ⁸ Assyria also is joined unto them, and have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. ⁹ But do thou to them as unto the Midianites, unto Sisera, and unto Jabin by the brook of Kishon, ¹⁰ who perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth. ¹¹ Make their princes like Oreb and Zeeb. Yea, make all their princes like as Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² who say, "We will have the houses of God in possession." ¹³ O my God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. ¹⁵ Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

¹⁵ When he calleth upon me, I shall hear him: Yea I am with him in his trouble; whereout I will deliver him, and bring him to honour.

²⁴ Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land, and gave no credence unto his word,

⁵ Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Meshech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!

³ Lo, children, and the fruit of the womb are a heritage and gift, that cometh of the LORD.

¹⁹ He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him; he heareth their cry, and helpeth them.

²⁴ The thing that the ungodly are afraid of, shall come upon them; but the righteous shall have their desire.

²⁵ The righteous eateth, and is satisfied; but the belly of the ungodly hath never enough.

²⁹ The strength of young men is their worship; and a grey head, is a honour unto the aged.

¹⁵ Therefore I commend gladness, because a man hath no better thing under the Sun, than to eat and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall he have of his labour all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the Sun.

⁵ I am black, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, like as the tents of the Kedarenes, and as the hangings of Solomon: but yet am I fair and well favored withal.

²³ Then shall there be a common way out of Egypt into Assyria. The Assyrians shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptians into Assyria. The Egyptians also and the Assyrians shall both have one God's service. ²⁴ Then shall Israel with honour be the third to Egypt and Assyria.

¹¹ The heavy burden of Dumah. He calleth unto me, out of of Seir, "Watchman, what hast thou espied by night? Watchman, what hast thou espied by night?"

¹⁶ For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "There is yet a year according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of the Cedar shall fail.

¹⁶ For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, "There is yet a year according to the years of a hired servant, and all the glory of the Cedar shall fail. ¹⁷ And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."

¹³ But they to fulfill their lust and willfulness, slaughter oxen: they kill sheep, they eat costly meat, and drink wine. "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die."

¹ Come ye heathen, and hear. Take heed, ye people. Hearken, thou earth and all that is therein; thou round compass and all that groweth thereupon. ² For the LORD is angry with all people, and his displeasure is kindled against all the multitude of them, to curse them and to slay them: ³ so that their slain shall be cast out, and their bodies stink; that even the very hills shall be wet with the blood of them. ⁴ All the stars of heaven shall be consumed, and the heaven shall fold together like a roll, and all the stars thereof shall fall, like as the leaves fall from the vines and fig trees. ⁵ For my sword shall be bathed in heaven, and shall immediately come down upon Idumaea, and upon the people which I have cursed for my vengeance. ⁶ And the LORD's sword shall be full of blood, and be rusty with the fatness and blood of lambs and goats, with the fatness of the kidneys of wethers. For the LORD shall kill a great offering in Bozrah. and a great slaughter in the land of Idumaea. ⁷ There shall the Unicorns fall with them, and the bulls with the giants; and their land shall be washed with blood, and their ground corrupt with fatness. ⁸ Unto thee also, O Zion, shall come the day of the vengeance of God, and the year when thine own judgments shall be recompensed. ⁹ Thy floods shall be turned to pitch, and thine earth to brimstone, and therewith shall the land be kindled, ¹⁰ so that it shall not be quenched day nor night, but smoke evermore and so forth to lie waste. And no man shall go through thy land forever. ¹¹ But Pelicans, Storks, great Owls, and Ravens shall have it in possession, and dwell therein. For God shall spread out the line of desolation upon it, and weight it with the stones of emptiness. ¹² When kings are called upon, there shall be none, and all princes shall be away. ¹³ Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles and thistles in their strongholds; that the dragons may have their pleasure therein, and that they may be a court for Ostriches. ¹⁴ There shall strange visures and monstrous beasts meet one another, and the wild keep company together. There shall the llama lie, and have her lodging. ¹⁵ There shall the owl make her nest, build, be there at home, and bring forth her young ones. There shall the kites come together, each one to his like. ¹⁶ Seek through the scripture of the LORD and read it: There shall none of these things be left out, there shall not one, nor such like, fail. For what his mouth commandeth, that same doth his spirit gather together or fulfill. ¹⁷ Upon whomsoever the lot falleth, or to whom he dealeth it with the line: those shall possess the inheritance from generation to generation, and dwell therein.

³⁰ Children are weary and faint, and the strongest men fall: ³¹ But unto them that have the LORD before their eyes, shall strength be increased, Eagles wings shall grow upon them; When they run, they shall not fall; and when they go, they shall not be weary."

¹¹ Let the wilderness with her cities lift up her voice; the towns also that be in Cedar. Let them be glad that sit upon rocks of stone; and let them cry down from the high mountains

¹¹ Thus sayeth the LORD, even the holy one and maker of Israel: Ask me of things for to come, concerning my sons; and put me in remembrance, as touching the works of my hands.

⁹ Then shouldest thou call, and the LORD answer; then shouldest thou cry, and he shall say, "Lo, here am I. For I the LORD thy God am merciful."

⁶ The abundance of camels shall cover thee, and the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah shall come all of them from Sheba, and bring gold and frankincense, and shall preach the praise of the LORD. ⁷ All the cattle of Cedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams Nebaioth shall serve thee, to be offered upon mine altar, which I have chosen, and in the house of my glory which I have garnished.

¹ What is he, this that cometh from Edom, with stained red clothes of Bozrah, which is so costly cloth, and cometh in so nimbly with all his strength? "I am he that teacheth righteousness, and am of power to help." ² Wherefore then is thy clothing red, and thy raiment like his that treadeth in the winepress? ³ "I have trodden the press myself alone, and of all people, there was not one with me. Thus have I trodden down mine enemies in my wrath, and set my feet upon them in my indignation: And their blood sprang upon my clothes, and so have I stained all my raiment. ⁴ For that day of vengeance that I have taken in hand, and the year of my deliverance, is come. ⁵ I looked about me, and there was no man to show me any help. I fell down, and no man held me up. Then I held me by mine own arm, and my ferventness sustained me: ⁶ and thus have I trodden down the people in my wrath, and bathed them in my displeasure: Insomuch that I have shed their blood upon the earth."

²⁴ And it shall be, that before they call, I shall answer them. While they are yet but thinking how to speak, I shall hear them.

¹¹ And therefore I am so full of thine indignation, O LORD, that I may suffer no longer. "Shed out thy wrath upon the children that are without, and upon all young men. Yea the man must be taken prisoner with the wife, and the aged with the cripple.

²³ Dedan, Tema, Buz and the shaven Ishmaelites;

²⁵ all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, all the kings of the Medes;

⁷ "Upon the Edomites hath the LORD of Hosts spoken on this manner: Is there no wisdom in Tema? Is there no more good counsel among his people? Is their wisdom then turned clean to naught? ⁸ Get you hence, turn your backs, creep down into the deep, O ye citizens of Dedan. For I will bring destruction upon Esau; yea, and the day of his visitation.

⁸ Get you hence, turn your backs, creep down into the deep, O ye citizens of Dedan. For I will bring destruction upon Esau; yea, and the day of his visitation. ⁹ If the grape gathers come upon thee, should they not leave some grapes? If the night robbers came upon thee, should they not take so much as they thought were enough? ¹⁰ But I will make Esau bare, and discover his secrets, so that he shall not be able to hide them. His seed shall be wasted away; yea his brethren and his neighbours, and he himself shall not be left behind. ¹¹ Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me. ¹² For thus hath the LORD spoken: Behold, they that men thought were unmete to drink of the cup, have drunken with the first: and thinkest thou then to be free? No, no: thou shalt neither be quit nor free, but thou must drink also. ¹³ For why? I have sworn by myself, sayeth the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a wilderness; an open shame; a laughingstock and cursing; and her cities shall be a continual desert. ¹⁴ For I am perfectly informed of the LORD, that he hath sent a message already unto the Heathen. Gather you together, and go forth against them: make you ready to the battle, ¹⁵ for lo: I will make thee but small among the Heathen, and little regarded among men. ¹⁶ Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁷ Moreover Idumaea shall be a wilderness: whoso goeth by it, shall be abashed, and wonder at all her miserable plagues. ¹⁸ Like as Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities that lay thereabout, were turned up side down, sayeth the LORD, so shall nobody dwell in Idumaea, and no man shall have his habitation there. ¹⁹ Behold, like as the Lion cometh up from the pleasant meadows of Jordan unto the green pastures of Etham, so will I drive him, and make him run against her. But who is the young man that I will ordain thereto? Who is like unto me? What is he that will strive with me? What shepherd may stand in my hands? ²⁰ Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken upon Idumaea: and his purpose, that he hath devised upon the citizens of Teman. The least of the flock shall tear them in pieces, and look: what fair thing they have, they shall make it waste, and themselves also. ²¹ At the noise of their fall, the earth shall quake, the cry of their voice shall be heard to the reed sea. ²² Behold, the enemy shall come and flee up hither, like as it were an Eagle and spread his wings upon Bozrah. Then shall the hearts of the worthies in Edom be as the heart of a woman travailing of child."

³¹ In all your idols, whereunto ye bring your oblations, and to whose honour ye burn your children: ye defile yourselves, even unto this day. How dare ye then come, and ask any question at me? O ye household of Israel: As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye get no answer of me.

¹² Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: Because that Edom hath avenged and eased himself upon the house of Judah, ¹³ therefore thus sayeth the LORD: I will reach out mine hand upon Edom, and take away man and beast out of it. From Teman unto Dedan will I make it desolate; they shall be slain with the sword.

¹³ therefore thus sayeth the LORD: I will reach out mine hand upon Edom, and take away man and beast out of it. From Teman unto Dedan will I make it desolate; they shall be slain with the sword. ¹⁴ Through my people of Israel will I avenge me again upon Edom: they shall handle him, according to my wrath and indignation, so that they shall know my vengeance, sayeth the LORD God.

⁶ and the Oaks of Bashan to make the rowers. Thy boards have they made of ivory, and of costly wood out of the Isle of Chittim.

²⁰ Dedan occupied with thee, in fair tapestry work and cushions.

¹ Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ² "Thou son of man, turn thy face toward the mount Seir, prophesy upon it, ³ and say unto it, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, O thou mount Seir, I will upon thee; I will reach out mine hand over thee. Yea, waste and desolate will I make thee. ⁴ Thy cities will I break down, and thou shalt lie void: that thou mayest know, how that I am the LORD. ⁵ Forsomuch as thou bearest an old enemy against the children of Israel, and with a cruel hand hast made them afraid, what time as they were troubled and punished for their sin: ⁶ Therefore, as truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, I will prepare thee unto blood. Yea, blood shall follow upon thee: seeing thou layest wait for blood, therefore shall blood persecute thee. ⁷ Thus will I make the mount Seir desolate and waste, and bring to pass that there shall no man go thither, nor come from thence. ⁸ His mountains will I fill with his slain men: thy hills, dales and valleys shall lie full of them that are slain with the sword. ⁹ I will make thee a perpetual wilderness, so that no man shall dwell in thy cities: that ye may know how that I am the LORD. ¹⁰ "'And because thou hast said, 'What, both these nations and both these lands must be mine, and I will have them in possession,' whereas the LORD was there: ¹¹ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, I will handle thee according to thy wrath and jealousy, like as thou hast dealt cruelly with them - that I may be known among them, how I have punished thee. ¹² Yea, and that thou also mayest be sure, that I the LORD have heard all thy despiteful words, which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'Lo, they are made waste, and given us to devour.' ¹³ Thus with your mouths ye have made your boast against me; yea, and multiplied your proud words against me, which I have heard altogether. ¹⁴ Whereunto, thus sayeth the LORD God: when the whole world is in wealth, then will I make thee waste. ¹⁵ And like as thou, O mount Seir, wast glad because the heritage of the house of Israel was destroyed: even so will I do unto thee also, that thou and whole Edom shall be destroyed - and know that I am the LORD.'"

³⁷ Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will yet once be found again of the house of Israel, and do this for them: I shall increase them as a flock of men.

³ He took his brother by the heel, when he was yet in his mother's womb: and in his strength he wrestled with God.

¹¹ "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Edom, I will not spare him, because he persecuted his brother with the sword, destroyed his mother's womb, bare hatred very long, and so kept indignation always by him. ¹² Therefore will I send a fire into Teman, which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.'

¹ This is the vision that was showed unto Obadiah. Thus hath the LORD God spoken upon Edom: We have heard of the LORD that there is an ambassador sent among the Heathen: "Up, let us arise, and fight against them!" ² Behold, I will make thee small among the Heathen, so that thou shalt be utterly despised. ³ The pride of thine heart hath lift thee up, thou that dwellest in the strongholds of stone, and hast made thee a high seat. Thou sayest in thine heart, "Who shall cast me down to the ground?" ⁴ But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence. ⁵ If the thieves and robbers came to thee by night, thou taking thy rest: should they not steal, till they had enough? If the grape gatherers came upon thee, would they not leave thee some grapes? ⁶ But how shall they rip Esau, and seek out his treasures! ⁷ Yea, the men that were sworn unto thee, shall drive thee out of the borders of thine own land. They that be now at one with thee, shall deceive thee, and overcome thee: Even they that eat thy bread, shall betray thee, before thou perceive it. ⁸ Shall not I at the same time destroy the wise men of Edom; and those that have understanding, from the mount of Esau? ⁹ Thy giants, O Teman, shall be afraid, for through the slaughter they shall be all overthrown upon the mount of Esau. ¹⁰ Shame shall come upon thee, for the malice that thou showedest to thy brother Jacob. Yea, for evermore shalt thou perish, ¹¹ and that because of the time when thou didst set thyself against him; even when the enemies carried away his host, and when the aliens came in at his ports, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, and thou thyself wast as one of them. ¹² Thou shalt no more see the day of thy brother; thou shalt no more behold the time of his captivity; thou shalt no more rejoice over the children of Judah, in the day of their destruction; thou shalt triumph no more in the time of their trouble. ¹³ Thou shalt no more come in at the gates of my people, in the time of their decay; thou shalt not see their misery in the day of their fall. Thou shalt send out no man against their host, in the day of their adversity; ¹⁴ neither shalt thou stand waiting anymore at the corners of the streets, to murder such as are fled, or to take them prisoners that remain in the day of their trouble. ¹⁵ For the day of the LORD is hard by upon all Heathen. Like as thou hast done, so shalt thou be dealt withal. Yea, thou shalt be rewarded even upon thine head. ¹⁶ For likewise as ye have drunken upon mine holy hill, so shall all Heathen drink continually: yea drink shall they, and swallow up, so that ye shall be as though ye had never been.

¹³ And the LORD said unto me, "Cast it unto the potter" - a goodly price for me to be valued at of them. And I took the thirty silver pens, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

² "I have loved you," sayeth the LORD: And yet ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" sayeth the LORD, "Yet have I loved Jacob, ³ and hated Esau: Yea I have made his hills waste, and his heritage a wilderness for dragons." ⁴ And though Edom said, "Well, we are destroyed, we will go build up again the places that be wasted": yet sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "What they builded, that brake I down: so that it was called a cursed land and people, whom the LORD hath ever been angry withal." ⁵ And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, "The LORD will be magnified upon the borders of Israel."

¹⁴ Ye have said, 'It is but lost labour, to serve God: What profit have we for keeping his commandments, and for walking humbly before the LORD of Hosts?

² Abraham begat Isaac; Isaac begat Jacob; Jacob begat Judah and his brethren;

⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.

²⁷ All things are given unto me of my father: And no man knoweth the son, but the father; neither knoweth any man the father, save the son, and he to whom the son will open him.

⁵ But they made light of it, and went their ways: one to his firm place, another about his merchandise:

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

¹⁸ And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven, and in earth.

²³ And he sware unto her, "Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, even unto the one half of my kingdom."

⁷ And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren; And both were well stricken in age.

¹³ And the angel said unto him, "Fear not Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard: And thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John:

³⁴ which was the son of Jacob: which was the son of Isaac: which was the son of Abraham: which was the son of Terah: which was the son of Nahor:

²⁷ And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and yet none of them was healed, saving Naaman of Syria."

¹¹ If the son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father: will he give him a stone? Or if he ask fish, will he for a fish, give him a serpent? ¹² Or if he ask an egg: will he offer him a scorpion? ¹³ If ye then which are evil, can give good gifts unto your children: How much more shall the father of heaven give a holy spirit to them, that desire it of him?"

¹⁸ And they all at once began to make excuse. The first said unto him, 'I have bought a farm, and I must needs go and see it, I pray thee have me excused.' ¹⁹ And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to prove them, I pray thee have me excused.' ²⁰ The third said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'

³⁵ The father loveth the son, and hath given all things into his hand.

² As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.

⁵ When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and gave up the ghost. And great fear came on all them that these things heard.

¹⁰ Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carried her out and buried her by her husband.

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and he begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

²³ And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the honour, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

³⁶ Howbeit David, after he had in his time fulfilled the will of God, he slept, and was laid with his fathers, and saw corruption.

⁴¹ 'Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish ye: for I do a work in your days, which ye shall not believe, if a man would declare it you.'"

¹⁷ Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he showed his benefits, in giving us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness."

¹⁷ If we be sons, we are also heirs: the heirs, I mean, of God: and heirs annexed with Christ. If so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified together.

³² Which spared not his own son, but gave him for us all: How shall he not with him give us all things also?

⁷ Neither are they all children straightway because they are the seed of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seed be called, ⁸ that is to say; They which are the children of the flesh, are not the children of God. But the children of promise are counted the seed. ⁹ For this is a word of promise, "About this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son." ¹⁰ Neither was it so with her only: but also when Rebecca was with child by one, I mean by our father Isaac,

¹⁰ Neither was it so with her only: but also when Rebecca was with child by one, I mean by our father Isaac, ¹¹ yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad — that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand — it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller,

¹¹ yer the children were born, when they had neither done good neither bad — that the purpose of God, which is by election, might stand — it was said unto her, not by the reason of works, but by grace of the caller, ¹² "The elder shall serve the younger."

¹² "The elder shall serve the younger." ¹³ As it is written, "Jacob he loved, but Esau he hated."

²¹ Therefore let no man rejoice in men. For all things are yours, ²² whether it be Paul, either Apollos, either Cephas: whether it be the world, or life, either death, whether they be present things or things to come: all are yours, ²³ and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

³² That I have fought with beasts at Ephesus after the manner of men, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not again? "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die."

²⁹ If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs by promise.

²⁸ Brethren, we are, after the manner of Isaac, children of promise:

¹⁸ For many walk - of whom I have told you often, and now tell you weeping - that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, ¹⁹ whose end is damnation, whose God is their belly and whose glory is to their shame, which are worldly minded.

¹⁹ For it pleased the father that in him should all fullness dwell,

² but in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath made heir of all things: by whom also he made the world.

¹⁶ Men verily swear by him that is greater than themselves; And an oath to confirm the thing, is among them an end of all strife.

⁹ By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

¹⁶ and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.

¹⁶ and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright. ¹⁷ Ye know how that afterward when that he would have inherited the blessing, he was put by, and he found no means to come thereby again: no, though he desired it with tears.