Numbers 16 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben, ² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame. ³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?" ⁴ When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face ⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him. ⁶ This do: take firepans, thou Korah and all thy company, ⁷ and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi." ⁸ And Moses said unto Korah, "Hear, ye children of Levi: ⁹ Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him, to do the service of the dwelling place of the LORD, and to stand before the people to minister unto them? ¹⁰ He hath taken thee to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee, and ye seek the office of the priest also. ¹¹ For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: for what is Aaron, that ye should murmur against him?" ¹² And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they answered, "We will not come. ¹³ Seemeth it a small thing unto thee that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness; but that thou shouldest reign over us also? ¹⁴ Moreover, thou hast brought us unto no land that floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? We will not come." ¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD, "Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any of them." ¹⁶ Then Moses said unto Korah, "Be thou and all thy company before the LORD: both thou, they, and Aaron tomorrow. ¹⁷ And take every man his censer and put cense in them, and come before the LORD every man with his censer: two hundred and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer." ¹⁸ And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid cense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also. ¹⁹ And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation. ²⁰ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying, ²¹ "Separate yourselves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once." ²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?" ²³ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ "Speak unto the congregation, and say, 'Get you away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'" ²⁵ And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him. ²⁶ And he spake unto the congregation, saying, "Depart from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all their sins." ²⁷ And they gat them from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, on every side. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents with their wives, their sons and their children. ²⁸ And Moses said, "Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works, and that I have not done them of mine own mind: ²⁹ If these men die the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men, then the LORD hath not sent me. ³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD." ³¹ And as soon as he had made an end of speaking all these words, the ground clove asunder that was under them, ³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of them. For they said, "The earth might haply swallow us also." ³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense. ³⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ "Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there, ³⁸ for the censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the LORD, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel." ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the altar, ⁴⁰ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Korah and his company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses. ⁴¹ And on the morrow all the multitude of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, "Ye have killed the people of the LORD." ⁴² And when the multitude was gathered against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of witness; And behold, the cloud had covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared. ⁴³ And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness. ⁴⁴ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ "Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly." And they fell upon their faces. ⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun." ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased. ⁴⁹ And the number of them that died in the plague, were fourteen thousand and seven hundred: beside them that died about the business of Korah. ⁵⁰ And Aaron went again unto Moses, unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and the plague ceased.

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.

¹⁸ The children of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. And Kohath lived a hundred and thirty three years.

²¹ The children of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg and Zichri.

⁹ And the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, councilors in the congregation, which strove against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD. ¹⁰ And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korah also, when the multitude died, what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign:

³ "Our father died in the wilderness, and was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the congregation of Korah: But died in his own sin, and had no sons.

⁶ and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben, how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them with their households and their tents and all their substance that was in their possession, in the midst of Israel.

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. ² For unto Judah which was mighty among his brethren, was given the principality before him. But the birthright was given Joseph.

¹¹ Woe be unto them, for they have followed the way of Cain, and are utterly given to the error of Balaam for lucre's sake, and are cast away in the treason of Korah.

⁴ There were tyrants in the world in those days. For after that the children of God had gone in unto the daughters of men and had begotten them children, the same children were the mightiest of the world and men of renown.

¹⁶ These were councilors of the congregation and lords in the tribes of their fathers and captains over thousands in Israel.

⁹ And the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, councilors in the congregation, which strove against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against the LORD.

²⁴ And these were the heads of the ancient households of them: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, Jahdiel, men of great power, men of name and heads of the ancient households of them.

³⁰ And of the children of Ephraim, were twenty thousand and eight hundred, men of might and named men in the households of their fathers.

¹⁴ Insomuch, that thy beauty was spoken of among the Heathen, for thou wast excellent in my beauty, which I put upon thee, sayeth the LORD God.

¹⁰ These discovered her shame, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: An evil name gat she of all people, and they punished her.

⁶ Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy people.' These are the words which thou shalt say unto the children of Israel."

⁴⁵ And moreover, I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God. ⁴⁶ And they shall know that I am the LORD their God that brought them out of the land of Egypt for to dwell among them: even I the LORD their God."

¹ And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, because of his wife the Ethiopian which he had taken: for he had taken a Ethiopian to wife. ² And they said, "Doth the LORD speak only through Moses? Doth he not speak also by us?" And the LORD heard it.

¹ And the multitude cried out, and the people wept throughout that night, ² and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness. ³ Wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land to fall upon the sword, that both our wives, and also our children should be a prey? Is it not better that we return unto Egypt again?" ⁴ And they said, one to another, "Let us make a captain and return unto Egypt again."

¹⁴ And it will be told to the inhabiters of this land also, for they have heard likewise, that thou the LORD art among this people, and that thou art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them and that thou goest before them by day time in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

⁷ and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi."

¹¹ For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD: for what is Aaron, that ye should murmur against him?"

³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell, for I am the LORD which dwell among the children of Israel.'"

² For they have taken the daughters of the same, and their sons, and have mixed the holy seed with the nations in the lands: and the hand of the rulers and lords of council hath been principal in this trespass."

¹⁷ The chariots of God are many thousand times a thousand, the LORD is among them, as in the holy place of Sinai.

¹⁶ They angered Moses in the tents, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats. ¹² When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches? ¹³ Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days. Your fastings are also in vain. ¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

³ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel. Amend your ways and your counsels, and I will let you dwell in this place. ⁴ Trust not in false lying words, saying, 'Here is the temple of the LORD, here is the temple of the LORD, here is the temple of the LORD.' ⁵ "For if ye will amend your ways and counsels, if ye will judge right betwixt a man and his neighbour; ⁶ If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction; ⁷ then will I let you dwell in this place, yea in the land that I gave afore time unto your fathers forever. ⁸ But take heed: ye trust in counsels that beguile you and do you no good. ⁹ For when ye have stolen, murdered, committed adultery and penury; When ye have offered unto Baal, following strange and unknown gods; ¹⁰ Then come ye, and stand before me in this house, which hath my name given unto it, and say 'Tush, we are absolved quite, though we have done all these abominations.' ¹¹ What? Think you this house that beareth my name, is a den of thieves? And these things are not done privily, but before mine eyes, sayeth the LORD. ¹² Go to my place in Shiloh, whereunto I gave my name afore time, and look well what I did to the same place for the wickedness of my people of Israel.

⁹ And see that you think not to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father': for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. ¹⁰ Even now is the axe put unto the root of the trees: so that every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

³⁹ to whom our fathers would not obey: But cast it from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

⁵¹ "Ye stiffnecked and of uncircumcised hearts and ears: ye have always resisted the holy ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

²⁸ For he is not a Jew, which is a Jew outward. Neither is that thing circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: ²⁹ But he is a Jew which is hid within, and the circumcision of the heart is the true circumcision, which is in the spirit, and not in the letter: whose praise is not of men but of God.

⁵ And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel.

⁴⁵ "Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly." And they fell upon their faces.

⁶ And Moses and Aaron went from the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and fell upon their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

⁶ And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, both he and the elders of Israel; and put earth upon their heads.

¹ And take thou unto thee, Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me: both Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

⁴³ And they shall be upon Aaron and his sons, when they go into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister in holiness, that they bear no sin and so die. And it shall be a law for ever unto Aaron and his seed after him."

² "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the vestures and the anointing oil, and an ox for a sin offering and two rams and a basket of sweet bread:

³ Then Moses said unto Aaron, "This is it that the LORD spake, saying, 'I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron held his peace.

⁶ They shall be holy unto their God, and not pollute the name of their God, for the sacrifices of the LORD and the bread of their God they do offer: therefore they must be holy. ⁷ "'They shall take no wife that is an whore, or polluted, or put from her husband: for a priest is holy unto his God. ⁸ Sanctify him therefore, for he offereth up the bread of God: he shall therefore be holy unto thee, for I the LORD which sanctify you, am holy.

¹² neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he pollute not the holy place of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of God, is upon him. I am the LORD. ¹³ "'He shall take a maiden unto his wife: ¹⁴ but no widow nor divorced nor polluted whore. But he shall take a maiden of his own people to wife, ¹⁵ that he defile not his seed upon his people. For I am the LORD which sanctify him.'"

³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?"

⁵ And his rod whom I chose, shall blossom: So I will make cease from me the grudgings of the children of Israel which they grudge against you."

²⁸ And I chose thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest for to offer upon mine altar and to burn cense, and to wear an ephod before me. And I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel.

⁴ Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and receivest unto thee; he shall dwell in thy court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

²⁶ Then sent he Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

⁵ Strangers shall stand and feed your cattle, and the Aliens shall be your plowmen and reapers. ⁶ But ye shall be named the priests of the LORD, and men shall call you the servants of our God. Ye shall enjoy the goods of the Gentiles and triumph in their substance.

⁴⁶ and this toward the North, is the priests' that wait upon the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, which of the sons of Levi come near to the LORD, to minister unto him."

¹⁵ But the Priests, the Levites the sons of Zadok, that kept the holy ordinances of my Sanctuary, when the children of Israel were gone from me: shall come to me, to do me service, to stand before me, and to offer me the fat and the blood, sayeth the LORD God. ¹⁶ They shall go into my Sanctuary, and tread before my table, to do me service, and to wait upon mine ordinances.

¹⁸ Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

¹⁶ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye go, and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the father in my name he should give it you.

² until the day in the which he was taken up; after that he, through the holy ghost, had given commandments unto the apostles, which he had chosen:

²⁴ And they prayed, saying, "Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether thou hast chosen of these two,

² As they ministered to the Lord and fasted; The holy ghost said, "Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them."

⁷ And when there was much disputing, Peter rose up and said unto them, "Ye men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago, God chose among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.

¹⁴ And he said unto me, 'The God of our fathers hath ordained thee before, that thou shouldest know his will, and shouldest see that which is rightful, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth:

¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, ye which a while ago were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

³ Thou therefore suffer affliction as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No man that warreth entangleth himself with worldly business; and that, because he would please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.

¹⁹ But the sure ground of God remaineth, and hath this seal: the Lord knoweth them that are his, and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ, depart from iniquity.

¹⁹ Seeing, brethren, that by the means of the blood of Jesus, we may be bold to enter into that holy place, ²⁰ by the new and living way, which he hath prepared for us, through the veil, that is to say by his flesh. ²¹ And seeing also that we have a high priest which is ruler over the house of God, ²² let us draw nigh with a true heart in a full faith sprinkled in our hearts, from an evil conscience, and washed in our bodies with pure water,

¹⁴ Embrace peace with all men, and holiness; without the which, no man shall see the Lord.

⁵ and ye, as living stones, are made a spiritual house, and a holy priesthood, for to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. ⁶ Wherefore it is contained in the scripture, "Behold, I put in Zion a head cornerstone, elect and precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed." ⁷ Unto you therefore which believe is he precious: but unto them which believe not, the stone which the builders refused, the same is made the headstone in the corner ⁸ and a stone to stumble at, and a rock to offend them which stumble at the word, and believe not that whereon they were set. ⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

⁶ and made us kings and priests unto God his father, be glory, and dominion for evermore amen.

⁹ and they sung a new song saying, "Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for thou wast killed, and hast redeemed us by thy blood, out of all kindreds, and tongues, and people, and nations, ¹⁰ and hast made us unto our God, kings and priests and we shall reign on the earth."

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put cense upon; and brought strange fire before the LORD: which he commanded them not.

¹² "And then he shall take a censer full of burning coals out of the altar that is before the LORD, and his handful of sweet cense beaten small, and bring them within the veil, ¹³ and put the cense upon the fire before the LORD: that the cloud of the cense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the witness, that he die not.

³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense. ³⁶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ³⁷ "Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest and let him take up the censers out of the burning and scatter the fire here and there, ³⁸ for the censers of these sinners are hallowed in their deaths: and let them be beaten into thin plates and fastened upon the altar. For they offered them before the LORD, and therefore they are holy and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel." ³⁹ And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the altar, ⁴⁰ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Korah and his company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses.

⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun." ⁴⁷ And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people. ⁴⁸ And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased.

²¹ And Elijah came unto all the people and said, "Why halt ye between two opinions? If the LORD be very God, follow him: or if Baal be he, follow him." And the people answered him not one word. ²² Then said Elijah unto the people, "I only remain of the LORD's Prophets, and Baal's Prophets are four hundredth and fifty. ²³ Let two oxen be given us, and let them choose the one and cut him in pieces and lay him on wood, and put no fire under. And I will dress the other and put him on wood, and will put no fire under.

⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him.

¹⁷ And when Ahab saw Elijah, he said unto him, "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" ¹⁸ And he said, "It is not I that trouble Israel, but thou and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and hast followed Baal.

²³ And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this power?" ²⁴ Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will ask of you a certain question, which, if ye assoil me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. ²⁵ The baptism of John: whence was it? From heaven, or of men?" Then they reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we shall say from heaven; he will say unto us, 'Why did ye not then believe him?' ²⁶ But and if we shall say of men; then fear we the people. For all men held John as a prophet." ²⁷ And they answered Jesus, and said, "We cannot tell." And he likewise said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

⁴ according as he had chosen us in him through love, before the foundation of the world was laid, that we should be saints, and without blame before him, through love.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth:

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

¹⁵ And Lea answered, "Is it not enough, that thou hast taken away my husband, but wouldest take away my son's mandragoras also?" Then said Rachel, "Well, let him sleep with thee this night, for thy son's mandragoras."

⁵³ But the Levites shall pitch round about the habitation of witness, that there fall no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel, and the Levites shall wait upon the habitation of witness."

⁶ "Bring the tribe of Levi, and set them before Aaron the priest, and let them serve him and wait upon him -

⁴¹ And thou shalt appoint the Levites to me, the LORD, for all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel." ⁴² And Moses numbered, as the LORD commanded him, all the firstborn of the children of Israel. ⁴³ And all the firstborn males, in the sum of names, from a month old and above, were numbered twenty two thousand two hundred and seventy three. ⁴⁴ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ⁴⁵ "Take the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle: and the Levites shall be mine, which am the LORD.

¹⁴ And thou shalt separate the Levites, from among the children of Israel, that they be mine: ¹⁵ and after that, let them go and do the service of the tabernacle of witness. Cleanse them and wave them, ¹⁶ for they are given unto me from among the children of Israel: for I have taken them unto me for all the firstborn that open any matrix among the children of Israel.

¹³ Seemeth it a small thing unto thee that thou hast brought us out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness; but that thou shouldest reign over us also?

² And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father take with thee, and let them be joined unto thee and minister unto thee. And thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. ³ And let them wait upon thee and upon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nigh the holy vessels and the altar, that both they and ye also die not. ⁴ And let them be by thee and wait on the tabernacle of witness, and on all the service of the tabernacle, and let no stranger come nigh unto you. ⁵ Wait therefore upon the holy place and upon the altar, that there fall no more wrath upon the children of Israel: ⁶ behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among children of Israel, to be yours, as gifts given unto the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of witness.

⁸ And the same season the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD and to stand before the LORD, and to minister unto him and to bless in his name unto this day.

²³ And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. But David answered, "Seemeth it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, when I am a poor man and of small reputation?"

¹⁹ And is this a small thing in thy sight Lord Jehovah, but that thou shouldest speak also of thy servant's house for a great while to come? Is this a law among men Lord Jehovah?

³ And he said to the Levites that taught throughout all Israel and were sanctified unto the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; ye need not to bear it upon your shoulders. Wherefore now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

⁴⁴ At the same time were there men appointed over the treasure chests - wherein were the Heave offerings, the firstlings and the tithes - that they should gather them out of the fields about the cities, to distribute them unto the priests and Levites according to the law: for Judah was glad of the priests, and Levites,

¹³ Wherefore the LORD said, "Hearken, ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?

¹⁸ Was it not enough for you, to eat up the good pasture, but ye must tread down the residue of your pastures with your feet also? Was it not enough for you to drink clear water, but ye must trouble the residue also with your feet?

¹⁰ No nor the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness. ¹¹ Should they be set and ordained to minister under the doors of the house of my Sanctuary? And to do service in the house: to slay burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people; to stand before them, and to serve them;

³ With me is it but a very small thing, that I should be judged of you, either of man's day. No I judge not mine own self.

¹⁰ And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons to wait on their priests' office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall die for it."

⁷ And see that both thou and thy sons with thee take heed unto your priests' office, in all things that pertain unto the altar and within the veil. And see that ye serve, for I have given your priests' office unto you for a gift to do service: and the stranger that cometh nigh, shall die."

¹⁰ Among the proud there is ever strife; but among those that do all things with advisement, there is wisdom.

²¹ And he said unto her, "What wilt thou have?" She said unto him, "Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand in thy kingdom." ²² Jesus answered, and said, "Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of? And to be baptised with the baptism, that I shall be baptised with?" They answered to him, "That we are."

²⁴ And there was a strife among them, which of them should be taken for the greatest.

¹⁰ Be kind one to another, with brotherly love. In giving honour go one before another.

³ that nothing be done through strife or vain glory, but that in meekness of mind every man esteem others better than himself,

⁹ I wrote unto the congregation: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not,

⁷ and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the LORD: because he hath heard your grudgings against the LORD — for what are we that ye should murmur against us?" ⁸ And moreover spake Moses, "At evening the LORD will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread enough, because the LORD hath heard your murmur which ye murmur against him: for what are we? Your murmuring is not against us, but against the LORD."

² And the people chode with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." And Moses said unto them, "Why chide ye with me, and wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?"

⁷ And the LORD said unto Samuel, "Hear the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee. For they have not cast thee away, but me: that I should not reign over them.

¹⁶ He that heareth you, heareth me: And he that despiseth you, despiseth me. And he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me."

²⁰ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me. And he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me."

⁴ Pertained it not unto thee only? And after it was sold, was not the price in thine own power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God."

² Whosoever therefore resisteth power, resisteth the ordinance of God. And they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation.

⁵ What is Paul? What thing is Apollos? Only ministers are they, by whom ye believed: even as the Lord gave every man grace.

¹⁰ Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

⁹ If a wise man go to law with a fool - whether he deal with him friendly or roughly - he getteth no rest.

⁵ One shall ever be doing violence and wrong to another. The boy shall presume against the elder, and the vile person against the honorable.

¹³ Submit yourselves unto all manner ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be unto the King as unto the chief head; ¹⁴ other unto rulers, as unto them that are sent of him, for the punishment of evil doers: but for the laud of them that well do.

⁸ Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority.

¹¹ And he set taskmasters over them, to keep them under with burdens. And they built unto Pharaoh treasure cities: Pithom and Rameses.

²² Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."

¹⁴ And he answered, "Who hath made thee a ruler or a judge over us? Intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian?" Then Moses feared and said, "Of a surety the thing is known."

²³ And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

³ and said unto them, "Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and ate bread our bellies' full; for ye have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole multitude for hunger."

³ There the people thirsted for water, and murmured against Moses and said, "Wherefore hast thou brought us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?"

⁵ We remember the fish which we should eat in Egypt for nought, and of the cucumbers and melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

² and all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. And the whole congregation said unto them, "Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt, either we would that we had died in this wilderness.

³ And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD. ⁴ Why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here?

² The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers came together against the LORD, and against his Christ. ³ Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

¹⁴ But his citizens hated him, and sent messengers after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'

²⁵ For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hands should save them: but they understood not. ²⁶ And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye one another?' ²⁷ But he that did his neighbour wrong, thrust him away saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge among us?

³⁵ This Moses whom they forsook, saying, 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge?' — the same God sent, both a ruler and a deliverer, by the hands of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

⁸ and am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land unto a good land and a large, and unto a land that floweth with milk and honey: even unto the place of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and of the Jebusites.

¹⁷ And I have said it, that I will bring you out of the tribulation of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites: even a land that floweth with milk and honey.'

⁵ If a man do hurt field or vineyard, so that he put in his beast to feed in another man's field: of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

¹¹ and the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat: In like manner thou shalt do with thy vineyard and thine olive trees.

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:

⁵ Wherefore brought ye us out of Egypt, to bring us into this ungracious place, which is no place of seed nor of figs nor vines nor of pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink?"

⁸ And every daughter that possesseth any inheritance among the tribes of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the kindred of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his father, ⁹ and that the inheritance go not from one tribe to another: but that the tribes of the children of Israel may abide, every man, in his own inheritance.'" ¹⁰ And as the LORD commanded Moses, even so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

²¹ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes; and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters. And he was made to grind in the prison house.

² "Make a covenant with us and we will be thy servants." And Nahash the Ammonite said, "Hereto will I make a covenant with you: even to thrust out all your right eyes, that I may bring that shame upon all Israel."

⁴ And Abel, he brought also of the firstlings of his sheep and of the fat of them. And the LORD looked unto Abel and to his offering: ⁵ but unto Cain and unto his offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.

¹⁹ And as soon as he came nigh unto the host and saw the calf and the dancing, his wrath waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hand, and brake them even at the hill foot.

³ But Moses was a very meek man, above all the men of the earth.

⁶ This do: take firepans, thou Korah and all thy company, ⁷ and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi."

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again." ⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand."

¹⁰ Hear the word of the LORD, ye tyrants of Sodom, and hearken unto the law of our God, thou people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats. ¹² When ye appear before me, who requireth this of you to tread within my porches? ¹³ Offer me no more oblations, for it is but lost labour. I abhor your incense. I may not away with your new moons, your Sabbaths and solemn days. Your fastings are also in vain. ¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood.

²² But I say unto you, Whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of judgment: whosoever sayeth unto his brother, 'Raca,' shall be in danger of a council: but whosoever sayeth, 'Thou fool,' shall be in danger of hell fire.

⁵ And he looked round about on them, angrily mourning on the blindness of their hearts. And said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out: And his hand was restored, even as whole as the other.

³³ I have desired no man's silver, gold, or vesture. ³⁴ Ye know well that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

¹⁵ But I have used none of these things. Neither wrote I these things that it should be so done unto me. For it were better for me to die than any man should take this rejoicing from me.

¹² Our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in singleness of heart and with godly pureness — and not in fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God — we have had our conversation in the world, and most of all to you-wards.

² Understand us: we have hurt no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man.

¹⁴ Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children. ¹⁵ I will very gladly bestow, and will be bestowed for your souls: though the more I love you, the less I am loved again. ¹⁶ But be it that I grieved you not: nevertheless I was crafty and took you with guile. ¹⁷ Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you?

²⁶ Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

⁷ Now therefore stand still, and let me reason with you before the LORD, of all the righteousnesses of the LORD which he showed both you and your fathers.

¹⁴ Of these things put them in remembrance, and testify before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to pervert the hearers.

⁷ and in the morning ye shall see the glory of the LORD: because he hath heard your grudgings against the LORD — for what are we that ye should murmur against us?"

¹⁰ And as Aaron spake unto the whole multitude of the children of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness: and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in a cloud.

⁶ And Moses said, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do: and then the glory of the LORD shall appear unto you."

²³ Then Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of witness and came out again and blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

⁵ And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and called Aaron and Miriam. And they went out both of them.

¹⁰ And all the whole multitude bade stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of witness, unto all the children of Israel.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben, ² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame.

⁴² And when the multitude was gathered against Moses and Aaron, they looked toward the tabernacle of witness; And behold, the cloud had covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared.

¹⁵ And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city." ¹⁶ And as he prolonged the time, the men caught both him, his wife and his two daughters by the hands; because the LORD was merciful unto him, and they brought him forth and set him without the city. ¹⁷ When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish." ¹⁸ Then said Lot unto them, "Oh nay my lord: ¹⁹ behold, inasmuch as thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, now make thy mercy great which thou showest unto me in saving my life. For I cannot save myself in the mountains, lest some misfortune fall upon me and I die. ²⁰ Behold, here is a city by, to flee unto, and it is a little one, let me save myself therein: is it not a little one, that my soul may live?" ²¹ And he said to him, "See, I have received thy request as concerning this thing, that I will not overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken. ²² Haste thee, and save thyself there, for I can do nothing till thou be come in thither." And therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

¹⁰ and now therefore suffer me that my wrath may wax hot upon them, and that I may consume them: and then will I make of thee a mighty people."

⁵ And the LORD spake unto Moses, "Say unto the children of Israel, 'Ye are a stiffnecked people: I must come once suddenly upon you, and make an end of you. But now put your goodly raiment from you, that I may wete what to do unto you.'"

¹² I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make of thee a greater nation and a mightier than they."

¹⁵ If thou shalt kill all this people as they were but one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee, will speak, saying,

¹⁹ O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!

³⁶ Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies.

¹⁶ Their arrows are sudden death; yea, they themselves be very giants.

⁴⁰ And with many other words bare he witness, and exhorted them saying, "Save yourselves from this untoward generation."

¹⁷ Wherefore, "Come out from among them, and separate yourselves," saith the Lord, "and touch none unclean thing: so will I receive you,

⁶ Let no man deceive you with vain words. For through such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief. ⁷ Be not, therefore, companions with them.

²⁸ Wherefore if we receive a kingdom which is not moved, we have grace, whereby we may serve God and please him with reverence and godly fear. ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come away from her, my people, that ye be not partakers in her sins, that ye receive not of her plagues.

²³ and drew near and said, "Wilt thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? ²⁴ If there be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou destroy it and not spare the place for the sake of fifty righteous that are therein? ²⁵ That be far from thee, that thou shouldest do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked: that be far from thee. Should not the Judge of all the world do according to right?"

³² And he said, "O let not my LORD be angry, that I speak yet, but even once more only. What if ten be found there?" And he said, "I will not destroy them for ten's sake."

⁴ When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face

¹⁶ "Let the LORD, God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation;

¹ But yet the children of Israel trespassed in the excommunicate things: for Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took of the excommunicate things. And the wrath of the LORD waxed hot against the children of Israel. ² Then Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, "Get you up and view the country." And the men went up and spied out Ai, ³ and returned unto Joshua and said unto him, "Let not all the people go up, but let as it were a two or three thousand men go up and destroy Ai, and make not all the people to labour thither, for they are but few." ⁴ And so there went up thither about a three thousand men, which fled before the men of Ai. ⁵ And the men of Ai smote of them upon a thirty and six men, and chased them before the gates even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down. And the hearts of the people were discouraged and melted like water. ⁶ And Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, both he and the elders of Israel; and put earth upon their heads. ⁷ And Joshua said, "Ah, Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had adventured and dwelt on the other side Jordan. ⁸ Oh Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies? ⁹ Moreover, the Canaanites, and all the inhabiters of the land shall hear of it, and shall come about us and destroy the name of us out of the world. And then what wilt thou do unto thy mighty name?" ¹⁰ And the LORD said unto Joshua, "Get thee up, wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? ¹¹ Israel hath sinned and also transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them, and have taken of the excommunicate things, and have stolen and hid them, and also put them unto their own stuff: ¹² And therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They shall turn their backs before their enemies, because they be excommunicate. Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you. ¹³ Up, and sanctify the people and bid them to sanctify themselves against the morrow: for so sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'The excommunication is among you Israel, and therefore ye cannot stand before your enemies, until ye have put the excommunication from among you. ¹⁴ Tomorrow morning ye shall come by your tribes. And the tribe which the LORD shall find guilty, shall come by kindreds. And the kindred which the LORD shall find guilty, shall come by households. And the household which the LORD shall find faulty, shall come man by man. ¹⁵ And he that is found in the excommunication shall be burnt with fire, both he and all that pertaineth unto him, because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.'" ¹⁶ And so Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes: and the tribe of Judah was caught. ¹⁷ Then he brought the kindreds of Judah, and found the kindred of the Zerahites guilty. ¹⁸ And he brought the kindred of the Zerahites by householders, and Zabdi was caught. And he brought his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah in the tribe of Judah was caught. ¹⁹ And Joshua said unto Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and give him praise, and show me what thou hast done, and hide it not from me." ²⁰ And Achan answered Joshua, and said, "Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and so and so have I done. ²¹ I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder." ²² And then Joshua sent messengers which ran unto the tent. And behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver thereunder. ²³ And they took them out of the midst of his tent and brought them unto Joshua and unto all the children of Israel, and poured them out before the LORD. ²⁴ And Joshua took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the tongue of gold, and his sons and his daughters, his oxen, asses, sheep, his tent and all that he had, and all Israel with him, and brought them unto the valley of Achor. ²⁵ And Joshua said, "Inasmuch as thou hast troubled us: the LORD shall trouble thee this day." And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burnt them with fire, and overwhelmed them with stones. ²⁶ And they cast upon him a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day. And so the LORD turned from his fierce wrath. Wherefore the name of the place is called the valley of Achor unto this day.

¹ And the LORD was wroth again against Israel, and stirred up David against them, saying, "Go and number both Israel and Judah."

¹⁷ Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all men.

⁷ Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.

¹⁶ For I chide not ever, and am not wroth without end. But the blasting goeth from me, though I make the breath.

¹ The heavy burden which the LORD hath devised for Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD, which spread the heavens abroad, laid the foundation of the earth, and giveth man the breath of life,

¹⁸ Likewise, then, as by the sin of one, condemnation came on all men: even so, by the justifying of one cometh the righteousness that bringeth life, upon all men.

⁷ suffereth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth in all things.

⁹ Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live?

²¹ "Separate yourselves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once."

¹⁶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Gather unto me seventy of the elders of Israel, which thou knowest that they are the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them unto the tabernacle of witness, and let them stand there with thee. ¹⁷ And I will come down and talk with thee there, and take of the spirit which is upon thee and put upon them, and they shall bear with thee in the burden of the people, and so shalt thou not bear alone.

²⁵ And the LORD came down in a cloud and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And as the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did nought else.

³⁰ And then both Moses and the elders of Israel, gat them into the host.

¹² And the men said moreover unto Lot, "If thou have yet here any son-in-law or sons or daughters or whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring it out of this place: ¹³ for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it." ¹⁴ And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law. ¹⁵ And as the morning arose, the angels caused Lot to speed him, saying, "Stand up, take thy wife and thy two daughters and that that is at hand, lest thou perish in the sin of the city."

²¹ "Separate yourselves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once." ²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?" ²³ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ "Speak unto the congregation, and say, 'Get you away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'"

¹⁷ And see that there cleave nought of the damned thing in thine hand, that the LORD may turn from his fierce wrath and show thee mercy and have compassion on thee and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers:

¹¹ Away, away, get you out from thence and touch no unclean thing. Go out from among such. And be clean ye that bear the vessel of the LORD.

¹⁴ And whosoever shall not receive you, nor will hear your preaching, when ye depart out of that house, or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.

²⁰ Then said Peter unto him, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou wenest that the gift of God may be obtained with money.

⁵¹ And they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

²² Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: Keep thyself pure.

³⁰ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and starched her eyes and attired her head and looked out at a window. ³¹ And as Jehu entered at the gate she said, "Had Zimri peace which slew his master?"

⁴ He is wise of heart, and mighty in strength. Who ever prospered that took part against him?

¹⁰ Then arm thyself with thine own power! Up, deck thee in thy jolly array, ¹¹ pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction; and after a proud stomach there followeth a fall.

¹² After pride cometh destruction; and honour after lowliness.

¹⁴ Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye mockers that rule the LORD's people, which is at Jerusalem.

¹² And he said, "I will be with thee. And this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee: after that thou hast brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain."

¹ Moses answered and said, "See, they will not believe me nor hearken unto my voice: but will say, 'the LORD hath not appeared unto thee.'" ² Then the LORD said unto him, "What is that in thine hand?" And he said, "A rod." ³ And he said, "Cast it on the ground." And it turned unto a serpent. And Moses ran away from it. ⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Put forth thine hand and take it by the tail." And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod again in his hand. ⁵ "That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath appeared unto thee." ⁶ And the LORD said furthermore unto him, "Thrust thine hand into thy bosom." And he thrust his hand into his bosom and took it out. And behold, his hand was leprous, even as snow. ⁷ And he said, "Put thine hand into thy bosom again." And he put his hand into his bosom again, and plucked it out of his bosom, and behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. ⁸ "If they will not believe thee, neither hear the voice of the first token: yet will they believe the voice of the second token. ⁹ But and if they will not believe the two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, then take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which thou takest out of the river shall turn to blood upon the dry land."

⁹ "When Pharaoh speaketh unto you and sayeth, 'Show a wonder,' then shalt thou say unto Aaron, 'Take the rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall turn to a serpent.'"

¹³ 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot pass the mouth of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind. What the LORD sayeth, that must I speak.'

²² When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken. But the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: be not afeared therefore of him.

³⁶ And when offering time was come, Elijah the prophet went to and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let it be known this day, that thou art the God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I do all these things at thy commandment.

¹⁶ And therefore the LORD of Hosts giveth you this warning, "Hear not the words of the prophets, that preach unto you, and deceive you: for they speak the meaning of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.

¹⁷ "Wherefore, O thou son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people which prophesy out of their own hearts: and speak thou prophecy against them,

⁹ Behold, I will lift up mine hand over them: so that they shall be spoiled of those which afore served them: and ye shall know, that the LORD of Hosts hath sent me.

⁹ 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands also shall finish it: that ye may know, how that the LORD of Hosts hath sent me unto you.

³⁰ I can of mine own self do nothing at all. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not mine own will: But the will of the father which hath sent me.

³⁶ But I have greater witness than the witness of John. For the works which the father hath given me to finish: the same works that I do: bear witness of me, that the father sent me.

³⁸ For I came down from heaven: not to do mine own will, but his will which hath sent me.

⁴² I know that thou hearest me always: but because of the people that stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

¹¹ Believe me, that I am in the father, and the father in me. At the least believe me for the very works' sake.

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

³⁴ But go, and bring the people unto the land which I said unto thee, 'Behold, mine angel shall go before thee.' Neverthelater in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them."

²⁸ Then Micaiah said, "If thou come safe again, the LORD hath not spoken in me." And he said moreover, "Hearken to the people every one of you."

²⁷ And Micaiah said, "If thou come again in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken in me." And Micaiah said moreover, "Hearken to, ye people, every one of you."

¹⁵ Then useth he no violence in his wrath, neither hath he pleasure in curious and deep inquisitions.

¹⁹ For it happeneth unto men as it doth unto beasts, and as the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they have both one manner of breath, so that - in this - a man hath no preeminence above a beast, but all are subdued unto vanity.

³ What will ye do in time of the visitation and destruction, that shall come from far? To whom will ye run for help? Or to whom will ye give your honour, that he may keep it?

⁹ Should I not correct this, sayeth the LORD? Should I not be avenged of every people, that is like unto this?

²² {Tav} Thy sin is well punished, O thou daughter Zion: he shall not suffer thee to be carried away anymore. But thy wickedness, O daughter Edom, shall he visit, and for thy sins' sake, he shall lead thee into captivity.

³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation.

³ As for the ungodly and he that joineth himself to the company of wicked doers: shall not destruction and misery come upon him?

¹⁵ Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.

²¹ For the LORD shall step forth as he did upon the mount Perazim, and shall take on as he did upon the vale of Gibeon: that he may bring forth his device, his strange device: and fulfill his work, his wonderful work.

¹⁹ Behold, I shall make a new thing, and shortly shall it appear. Ye shall well know it; I told it you afore, but I will tell it you again. I will make streets in the desert, and rivers of water in the wilderness.

⁷ It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

¹² I have made the earth, and created man upon it. With my hands have I spread forth heaven, and given a commandment for all the Host thereof.

²² How long wilt thou go astray, O thou shrinking daughter? For the LORD will work a new thing upon earth: A woman shall compass a man.

¹⁰ And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korah also, when the multitude died, what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign: ¹¹ Notwithstanding, the children of Korah died not.

¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram. ¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly.

¹¹ And now cursed be thou as pertaining to the earth, which opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood of thine hand.

¹⁷ And take every man his censer and put cense in them, and come before the LORD every man with his censer: two hundred and fifty censers, and Aaron with his censer."

³⁰ But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD."

¹¹ Notwithstanding, the children of Korah died not.

²² The sons of Kohath: Amminadab and his son Korah, and his son Assir,

³⁷ the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

¹ {Upon Gittith, a Psalm of the sons of Korah} O how amiable are thy dwellings, thou LORD of Hosts!

¹ {To the Chanter, a Psalm of the sons of Korah} LORD, thou art become gracious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

¹ {A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah, to the Chanter upon Mahalath, to give thanks, an Instruction of Heman the Ezrahite} O LORD God my Savior, I have cried day and night before thee;

¹⁷ So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the congregation of Abiram.

¹⁴ Therefore gapeth hell, and openeth her mouth marvelous wide: that their pride, boasting, and wealth, with such as rejoice therein, may descend into it.

¹⁶ And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

¹⁵ The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

²³ But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

¹⁵ Let not the water-flood drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

⁷ Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave.

⁹ Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats,

¹⁵ Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

¹⁸ "Thou son of man, Take up a lamentation upon the people of Egypt, and cast them down, yea and the mighty people of the Heathen also, even with them that dwell beneath: and with them that go down into the grave.

³⁰ Moreover, there be all the princes of the north, with all of the Sidonians, which are gone down to the slain. With their fear and strength they are come to confusion, and lie there uncircumcised, among those that be slain with the sword: and bear their own shame, with them that be gone down to the pit.

¹² And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, "Behold, we are destroyed and all come to nought: ¹³ for whosoever cometh nigh the dwelling of the LORD, dieth. Shall we utterly consume away?"

³ Grant that the people may flee at the anger of thy voice, and that at thine upstanding the Gentiles may be scattered abroad;

⁵ And ye shall flee unto the valley of my hills, for the valley of the hills shall reach unto Asia. Yea, flee shall ye, like as ye fled for the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. And the LORD my God shall come, and all saints with him.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and in rocks of the hills, ¹⁶ and said to the hills, and rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the seat, and from the wrath of the lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of his wrath is come; And who can endure it?"

² And there went a fire out from the LORD, and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

¹ And the people waxed unpatient, and it displeased the ears of the LORD. And when the LORD heard it, he was wroth, and the fire of the LORD burnt among them and consumed the uttermost of the host. ² And the people cried unto Moses, and he made intercession unto the LORD; and the fire quenched. ³ And they called the name of the place Taberah because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame.

¹⁰ And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korah also, when the multitude died, what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign:

¹⁸ The fire was kindled in their company; the flame burnt up the ungodly.

²⁸ Notwithstanding, no dedicated thing that a man dedicateth unto the LORD, of all his goods — whether it be man or beast or land of his inheritance — shall be sold or redeemed: for all dedicated things are most holy unto the LORD.

¹⁸ And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and laid cense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and Moses and Aaron also.

⁴⁰ to be a remembrance unto the children of Israel, that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer cense before the LORD, that he be not made like unto Korah and his company: as the LORD said unto him by the hand of Moses.

¹⁰ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod again before the witness to be kept for a token unto the children of rebellion, that their murmurings may cease from me, that they die not."

²³ Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and so thereto if Adonijah have not spoken this word against himself.

¹⁸ Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

³⁶ But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

² The king ought to be feared as the roaring of a lion; whoso provoketh him unto anger, offendeth against his own soul.

⁸ I will set my face against that man. And will make him to be an example for others; yea, and a common byword. And will root him out of my people, that he may know how that I am the LORD.

¹⁰ Thou hast devised the shame of thine own house, for thou hast slain too much people, and hast willfully offended:

¹¹ All these things happened upon them for examples, and were written to put us in remembrance, whom the ends of the world are come upon.

⁶ and turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, overthrew them, damned them, and made of them an example unto all that after should live ungodly;

⁷ And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps: ⁸ and likewise at even when he setteth up the lamps he shall burn cense perpetually before the LORD throughout your generations. ⁹ Ye shall put no strange cense thereon, neither burnt sacrifice nor meat offering, neither pour any drink offering thereon. ¹⁰ And Aaron shall reconcile his horns once in a year, with the blood of the sin offering of reconciling: even once in the year shall he reconcile it through your generations. And so is it most holy unto the LORD."

¹⁰ "'There shall no stranger eat of the hallowed things, neither a guest of the priests, or a hired servant.

⁵¹ And when the tabernacle goeth forth, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is pitched, they shall set it up: for if any stranger come near, he shall die.

³⁸ "But on the forefront of the habitation and before the tabernacle of witness eastward, shall Moses and Aaron and his sons pitch and wait on the sanctuary in the stead of the children of Israel. And the stranger that cometh nigh shall die for it."

⁴ And let them be by thee and wait on the tabernacle of witness, and on all the service of the tabernacle, and let no stranger come nigh unto you. ⁵ Wait therefore upon the holy place and upon the altar, that there fall no more wrath upon the children of Israel: ⁶ behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among children of Israel, to be yours, as gifts given unto the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And see that both thou and thy sons with thee take heed unto your priests' office, in all things that pertain unto the altar and within the veil. And see that ye serve, for I have given your priests' office unto you for a gift to do service: and the stranger that cometh nigh, shall die."

¹ And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah with the word of God, to Bethel, as Jeroboam stood by the altar to offer, ² and cried against the altar at the commandment of the LORD and said, "Altar, altar, thus sayeth the LORD: 'Behold, a child shall be born of the house of David, Josiah by name, which upon thee shall offer the priests of the hill altars that sacrifice upon thee, and shall burn men's bones upon thee.'" ³ And he gave them the same time a sign, saying, "This is the sign, of that the LORD hath promised: Behold, the altar shall rent and the ashes that are in it shall fall out."

¹⁶ And in his greatness his heart arose, that he was marred: and transgressed against the LORD his God. For he went into the temple of the LORD to burn cense upon the altar of incense. ¹⁷ But Azariah the priest went in after him with four score priests of the LORD that were bold men. ¹⁸ And they stepped to Uzziah the king and said to him, "It pertaineth not to thee, Uzziah, to burn cense unto the LORD; but to the priests the children of Aaron that are consecrated for to burn incense. Come out of the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, and it shall be no worship to thee before the LORD God." ¹⁹ And Uzziah was wroth and had cense in his hand to offer, and in his indignation against the priest, the leprosy sprang in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, even beside the incense altar. ²⁰ And Azariah the chief priest with all the other priests looked upon him: and behold he was a leper in his forehead, and they vexed him thence. And thereto he was fain to go out, because the LORD had plagued him. ²¹ And Uzziah the king continued a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a house at liberty: howbeit, he was cast out of the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son had the governance of the king's house and judged the people of the land.

¹ And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi; and Dathan and Abiram, the son of Eliab; and On the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben, ² stood up before Moses, with other of the children of Israel: two hundred and fifty, heads of the congregation, and councilors, and men of fame. ³ And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, "Ye have done enough. For all the multitude are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why therefore heave ye yourselves up above the congregation of the LORD?" ⁴ When Moses heard it, he fell upon his face ⁵ and spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will show who is his and who is holy, and will take them unto him, and whomsoever he hath chosen, he will cause to come to him.

⁷ And thus said this Shimei as he cursed, "Come forth, come forth thou blood shedder and thou unthrifty man! ⁸ The LORD hath brought upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and he hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son. And thou art wrapped about with thine own mischief, because thou art a blood shedder."

¹⁷ And when Ahab saw Elijah, he said unto him, "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?"

¹³ But within a while they forgot his works, and would not abide his counsel.

²³ So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

²⁵ but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD. ²⁶ Then lift he up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness, ²⁷ to cast out their seed among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands. ²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them. ³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased. ³¹ And that was counted unto him for righteousness, among all posterities for evermore. ³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes, ³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. ³⁴ Neither destroyed they the Heathen, as the LORD commanded them, ³⁵ but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works - ³⁶ insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay. ³⁷ Yea, they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils, ³⁸ and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood. ³⁹ Thus were they stained with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. ⁴⁰ Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance; ⁴¹ and gave them over into the hand of the Heathen; and they that hated them, were lords over them. ⁴² Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection. ⁴³ Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. ⁴⁴ Nevertheless, when he saw their adversity, he heard their complaint. ⁴⁵ He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them, according unto the multitude of his mercies; ⁴⁶ yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them. ⁴⁷ Deliver us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the Heathen; that we may give thanks unto thy holy name, and make our boast of thy praise. ⁴⁸ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end. And let all people say, "Amen, Amen." Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹¹ LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.

¹³ And when he came under Benjamin's port, there was a porter, called Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, which fell upon him, and took him, saying, "Thy mind is to run to the Chaldeans." ¹⁴ Then said Jeremiah, "It is not so, I go not to the Chaldeans." Nevertheless Irijah would not believe him, but brought Jeremiah bound before the princes.

⁴ Then said the princes unto the king, "Sir, we beseech you let this man be put to death; For thus he discourageth the hands of the soldiers that be in this city, and the hands of all the people, when he speaketh such words unto them. This man verily laboureth not for peace of the people, but mischief."

³ But Baruch the son of Neriah provoketh thee against us, that he might bring us into the captivity of the Chaldeans: that they might slay us, and carry us away prisoners unto Babylon."

¹⁰ Upon this sent Amaziah the priest to Bethel unto Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, "Amos maketh the house of Israel to rebel against thee; the land cannot away with his words.

¹¹ Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake.

²⁸ saying, "Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and ye intend to bring this man's blood upon us."

²⁸ "Men of Israel, help. This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover also he hath brought Greeks into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place."

⁸ in honour and dishonour, in evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,

¹⁶ and the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the cloud.

³⁴ And the cloud covered the tabernacle of witness, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation: ³⁵ so that Moses could not enter into the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation.

¹⁹ And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of witness. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation.

²¹ "Separate yourselves from this congregation, that I may consume them at once." ²² And they fell upon their faces, and said, "O most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh; one man hath sinned, and wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?"

²⁴ "Speak unto the congregation, and say, 'Get you away from about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan and Abiram.'"

²⁶ And he spake unto the congregation, saying, "Depart from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs: lest ye perish in all their sins."

¹⁶ And David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and heaven with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out toward Jerusalem. Then fell David and the elders of Israel, clothed in sack, upon their faces.

³⁹ And he went away a little apart, and fell flat on his face, and prayed, saying, "O my father, if it possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt."

²⁴ And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar: the burnt offering and the fat. And all the people saw it and shouted, and fell on their faces.

⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and Ithamar his eldest sons, "Uncover not your head, neither rent your clothes; lest ye die and wrath come upon all the people. Let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, beweep the burning which the LORD hath burnt.

¹¹ And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sin offering, and reconcile for himself and for his household, and kill him. ¹² "And then he shall take a censer full of burning coals out of the altar that is before the LORD, and his handful of sweet cense beaten small, and bring them within the veil, ¹³ and put the cense upon the fire before the LORD: that the cloud of the cense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the witness, that he die not. ¹⁴ And he shall take of the blood of the ox and sprinkle it with his finger before the mercy seat eastward: even seven times. ¹⁵ Then shall he kill the goat that is the people's sin offering, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the ox, and let him sprinkle it toward the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: ¹⁶ and reconcile the holy place from the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and from their trespasses and all their sins. And so let him do also unto the tabernacle of witness that dwelleth with them, even among their uncleannesses.

¹⁹ and have given them unto Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tabernacle of witness and to make an atonement for the children of Israel, that there be no plague among the children of Israel, if they come nigh unto the sanctuary."

³³ And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, yer it was chewed up, the wrath of the LORD waxed hot upon the people, and the LORD slew of the people an exceeding mighty slaughter.

⁵ Wait therefore upon the holy place and upon the altar, that there fall no more wrath upon the children of Israel:

¹³ and he shall have it and his seed after him, even the covenant of the priest's office forever, because he was jealous for his God's sake and made an atonement for the children of Israel.'"

²² Also at Taberah and at Massah and at the sepulchres of lust ye angered the LORD.

²⁴ And Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number. And though he finished it not, yet there fell wrath for that upon Israel. And therefore the number was not put in the chronicles of king David.

²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

² Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

⁶ Then flew one of the Seraphims unto me, having a hot coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with the tongs, ⁷ and touched my mouth, and said, "Lo, this hath touched thy mouth, and thine unrighteousness is taken away, and thy sin is forgiven."

¹¹ For from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same, my name is great among the Gentiles. Yea, in every place shall there sacrifice be done, and a clean meat offering offered up unto my name: for my name is great among the Heathen, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

⁹ Much more then, now seeing we are justified in his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him. 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.

²⁵ Wherefore he is able also ever to save them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for us. ²⁶ Such a high priest it becometh us to have, which is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than heaven. ²⁷ Which needeth not daily — as yonder high priests — to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's sins. For that did he at once for all, when he offered up himself:

²⁵ Not to offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with strange blood: ²⁶ for then must he have often suffered since the world began: But now in the end of the world, hath he appeared once, to put sin to flight, by the offering up of himself.

¹ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous. ² And he it is that obtaineth grace for our sins; and not for our sins only, but also for the sins of all the world.

³ And another angel came and stood before the altar having a golden censer, and much of odours was given unto him, that he should offer of the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which was before the seat. ⁴ And the smoke of the odours which came of the prayers of all saints ascended up before God out of the angel's hand. ⁵ And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire of the altar and cast it into the earth, and voices were made, and thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquake.

⁴⁶ And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun."

⁶ And behold, one of the children of Israel went in against his brethren, and joined himself to a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, ⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel.

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 Bless, LORD, their power, and accept the works of their hands: smite the backs of them that rise against them and of them that hate them, that they rise not again."

¹⁰ And yet the LORD determined to bruise him with infirmities. His soul giving herself for trangression, he shall see seed of long continuance; and the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. ¹¹ Because of the labour of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. With his knowledge, he, being just, shall justify my servants: and that a great number. And he shall bear their iniquities. ¹² Therefore I will give him his part in many, and the spoil of the rich he shall divide: because he gave his soul to death, and was numbered with the trespassers, and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

⁴⁴ But I say unto you, Love your enemies. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you. Pray for them which do you wrong and persecute you;

²¹ Be not overcome of evil: But overcome evil with goodness.

³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense.

⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. ⁹ And there died in the plague twenty four thousand. ¹⁰ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ¹¹ "Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned mine anger away from the children of Israel, because he was jealous for my sake among them; that I had not consumed the children of Israel in my jealousy.

¹⁶ And when the Angel stretched out his hand unto Jerusalem to have destroyed it, the LORD had compassion to do that evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, "It is sufficient: let thine hand cease." And the Angel was at the threshing place of Araunah the Jebusite. ¹⁷ Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."

²⁵ And David built there an altar unto the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. And so the LORD was agreed with the land. And the plague ceased from Israel.

²⁶ And David built there an altar unto the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called unto the LORD and he heard him from heaven in fire upon the altar of burnt offering. ²⁷ And the LORD commanded the Angel to put up his sword again to the sheath of it.

³⁰ Then stood up Phinehas, and executed justice; and so the plague ceased.

¹⁴ And after that, Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, "Behold, thou art made whole: see thou sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee."

¹⁰ and for to look for his son from heaven, whom he raised from death: I mean Jesus, which delivereth us from wrath to come.

⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator between God and man, which is the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ which gave himself a ransom for all men, that it should be testified at his time;

²⁴ But this man, because he endureth ever, hath an everlasting priesthood: ²⁵ Wherefore he is able also ever to save them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth, to make intercession for us.

¹⁶ Knowledge your faults one to another: and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much, if it be fervent.

³² and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods. ³³ And they and all that pertained unto them, went down alive unto hell, and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of them. For they said, "The earth might haply swallow us also." ³⁵ And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered cense.

⁹ And there died in the plague twenty four thousand.

¹⁴ And the LORD sent pestilence upon all Israel, so that there were overthrown of Israel seventy thousand men.

¹ Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish. ² For if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast — so that every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense to reward - ³ how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it;

²⁸ He that despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be counted worthy, which treadeth underfoot the son of God: and counteth the blood of the testament as an unholy thing, wherewith he was sanctified, and doth dishonour to the spirit of grace.

²⁵ See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

⁴³ And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness.

²⁶ And David built there an altar unto the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings and called unto the LORD and he heard him from heaven in fire upon the altar of burnt offering. ²⁷ And the LORD commanded the Angel to put up his sword again to the sheath of it. ²⁸ At that time, when David saw that the LORD had heard him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he used to offer there. ²⁹ For the tabernacle of the LORD which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were that season in the hill at Gibeon. ³⁰ And David could not go before it to seek God, because he was afraid of the sword of the Angel of the LORD.