Ezekiel 16:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and lo! thy time, was the time for endearments, So I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy shame,––And took an oath to thee, And entered into covenant with thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, And thou didst become mine.

⁴ Ye, have seen, what, I did unto the Egyptians,––And how I bare you upon wings of eagles, And brought you in, unto myself:–– ⁵ Now, therefore, if ye will, indeed hearken, to my voice, And keep my covenant, Then shall ye be mine, as a treasure beyond all the peoples, For, mine, is all the earth; ⁶ But, ye, shall be mine, As a kingdom of priests, And a holy nation. These, are the words, which thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel. ⁷ Then came Moses, and called for the elders of the people,––and put before them all these words, which Yahweh had commanded him. ⁸ And all the people responded together, and said, All that Yahweh hath spoken, will we do. And Moses took back the words of the people, unto Yahweh.

¹ And, unto Moses, he said––Come up unto Yahweh––thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,––so shall ye bow yourselves down, from afar. ² And Moses alone, shall draw near unto Yahweh, but, they, shall not draw near,––and, the people, shall not come up with him. ³ So Moses came, and recounted to the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the regulations,––and all the people responded with one voice, and said, All the words which Yahweh hath spoken, will we do. ⁴ Then wrote Moses all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar, under the mountain,––and twelve pillars, for the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁵ and he sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they caused to go up, ascending–sacrifices,––and slew peace–offerings to Yahweh, of oxen. ⁶ Then took Moses, half of the blood, and put it in basins, and, half of the blood, dashed he over the altar; ⁷ then took he the book of the covenant, and read in the ears of the people. And they said, All that Yahweh hath spoken, will we do, and will hearken. ⁸ Then Moses took the blood, and dashed over the people,––and said, Lo! the blood of the covenant which Yahweh hath solemnised with you, over all these words.

¹³ Have remembrance of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself, and didst speak unto them saying, I will multiply your seed, as the stars of the heavens,––and, all this land of which I have spoken, will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it to times age–abiding.

³¹ For, a GOD of compassion, is Yahweh thy God, he will not forsake thee, neither will he destroy thee,––nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

⁶ For, a holy people, art thou, unto Yahweh thy God: of thee, hath Yahweh thy God, made choice, that thou shouldest become his people as a treasure, above all the peoples that are on the face of the ground: ⁷ not because ye were more in number than any of the peoples, did Yahweh become attached to you, and make choice of you,––for, ye, were fewer than any of the peoples; ⁸ but, because Yahweh loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, did Yahweh bring you forth with a firm hand,––and redeem thee out of the house of servants, out of the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

⁹ And he said, Who art, thou? And she said, I, am Ruth, thy handmaid, spread, therefore, thy wing over thy handmaid, for, a kinsman, thou art.

²² For Yahweh will not give up his people, because of his great name, for Yahweh was minded to make you his people.

⁸ But, thou, Israel, my Servant, Jacob whom I have chosen,––The seed of Abraham, my loving one; ⁹ Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, And, from the extremities thereof, have called thee,––And said to thee, My Servant, thou! I have chosen thee, and not cast thee off.

⁴ Because thou, art precious in mine eyes, art honoured, And, I, love thee,––And will give, mankind, in thy stead, Yea, peoples, for thy life,

⁷ The lovingkindness of Yahweh, will I recall, the praises of Yahweh, According to all that Yahweh, hath bestowed upon us,––Even the abundance of goodness to the house of Israel, Which he bestowed upon them––According to his compassions, and, According to the abundance of his lovingkindness. ⁸ Therefore he said–Surely, my people, they are, Sons, they will not act falsely! So he became their, saviour. ⁹ In all their affliction, he, was afflicted, And, the messenger of his presence, saved them, In his love and in his pity, he, redeemed them,––And then lifted them up and carried them, all the days of the age–past time.

² Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying––Thus, saith Yahweh, I remember, in thy behalf, the lovingkindness of thy youthful days, The love of thy bridal estate,––Thy coming out after me, Through the desert, Through a land, not sown: ³ Holiness, was Israel unto Yahweh, The firstfruit of his increase,––All that devoured it, were held guilty, Calamity, used to come upon them,––Declareth Yahweh.

³ From afar, Yahweh, hath appeared unto me, Yea, with an age–abiding love, have I loved thee, For this cause, have I prolonged to thee lovingkindness.

³² Not like the covenant which I solemnised with their fathers, In the day when I grasped their hand, to bring them forth, out of the land of Egypt,––In that, they, brake my covenant, Though, I, had become a husband unto them, Declareth Yahweh.

⁶ And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, thrusting about thee in thy blood, And said to thee––Despite thy blood, live! Yea I said to thee––Despite thy blood, live!

⁵ So then thou shalt say unto them, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, In the day when I made choice of Israel, then lifted I up my hand, to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them, in the land of Egypt,––Yea I lifted up my hand to them, saying, I, Yahweh, am your God. ⁶ In that day, lifted I up my hand to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt,––into a land that I had looked out for them, flowing with milk and honey, The beauty, it was, of all lands.

¹⁸ And I will solemnize to them a covenant, in that day, with the wild–beast of the field, and with the bird of the heavens, and the creeping thing of the ground,––and, bow and sword and battle, will I break in pieces out of the land, so will I cause them to lie down, in security. ¹⁹ And I will take thee unto myself, unto times age–abiding,––yea I will take thee unto myself, in righteousness and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in abounding compassion: ²⁰ Yea I will take thee unto myself, in faithfulness,––So shalt thou know Yahweh.

¹ When Israel was, a child, then I loved him,––and, out of Egypt, called I my son.

² I have loved you, saith Yahweh, and yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau, brother, to Jacob? enquireth Yahweh, Yet have I loved Jacob,

⁸ But God commendeth his own love unto us in that––we as yet being sinners, Christ in our behalf died.

¹⁰ And, not only so, but, when, Rebekah also, was with child, of one––Isaac our father,–– ¹¹ They, in fact, not being yet born, nor having practised anything good or bad,––in order that the purpose of God by way of election might stand,––not by works but by him that was calling, ¹² It was said unto her––The elder, shall serve the younger; ¹³ Even as it is written––Jacob, have I loved, but, Esau, have I hated.