Deuteronomy 21 Cross References - Thomson

¹ If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess; lying in the open field; and it is not known who smote him; ² thy senate, and thy judges, shall come and measure the distance to the cities around the slain; ³ and the senate of the city which is next to the slain, shall take a heifer from the herd, which hath never been worked, and which hath never drawn in a yoke; ⁴ and the senate of the city shall bring the heifer down to a rugged valley, which hath never been tilled, nor sowed, and they shall hamstring the heifer in the valley. ⁵ Then the priests, the Levites, shall come near: because the Lord God hath chosen them to wait upon him, and to bless in his name, therefore by their mouth every cause of plaint and denial, as well as all cases of leprosy, are to be decided; ⁶ and the whole senate of the city which is nearest the person dead, shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer, which was hamstringed in the valley, ⁷ and shall answer, and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it. ⁸ Be merciful to thy people whom thou, Lord, hast redeemed, that there may not be blood shed without cause among thy people Israel. So the blood shall be forgiven them, ⁹ and thou shalt remove from among you the blood which was shed without cause, if thou do what is good, and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God. ¹⁰ And when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thy hands, and thou hast taken their prey, ¹¹ and hast seen, among the captives, a woman of a comely appearance, and hast loved her, and hast taken her to thyself for a wife, ¹² and brought her home to thy house, thou shalt shave her head, and pare her nails, ¹⁴ and take from her the garments of her captivity, and she shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father, and her mother, a full month, and after that thou mayst go in unto her, and cohabit with her, and she shall be thy wife. And in case thou dislike her, thou shalt send her away free. She shall not be sold for money. Thou shalt not deal falsely with her, because thou hast humbled her. ¹⁵ If any man hath two wives, and one of them be beloved, and the other hated; and both the beloved, and the hated, bear him children, and the son of the hated be the first born, ¹⁶ he shall not be at liberty, when he bequeatheth his substance to his children, to give the right of primogeniture to the son of the beloved, and overlook the son of the hated, who is the first born; ¹⁷ but shall acknowledge the son of the hated as his first born, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath, because he is the head of his children, and the rights of primogeniture belong to him. ¹⁸ If any man hath a stubborn, and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not to the voice of his father, nor to the voice of his mother; and they have corrected him, and he will not hearken to them; ¹⁹ his father and his mother shall take him, and bring him out to the senate of his city, and to the gate of the place; ²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he hearkeneth not to our voice. He is devoted to revelling and drunkenness. ²¹ Thereupon the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the wicked from among you; and the rest, who hear, will be struck with awe. ²² If any man commit a sin incurring death; and he be put to death; and you hang him on a gibbet; ²³ his body shall not remain on the gibbet; but you shall bury it the same day. Because every one who is hanged on a gibbet is accursed of God; therefore you shall not defile the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possesion.

² that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose:

¹⁴ So when Abram came into Egypt the Egyptians beheld his wife, for she was very beautiful; ¹⁵ and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and she was brought to Pharaoh's house.

⁵ But Abraham gave to his son Isaak all his possessions, ⁶ and to the children of his concubines Abraham gave gifts and sent them, while he was yet living, towards the east, into the eastern country from his son Isaak.

³¹ And Jacob said to Esau, give me this day in exchange thy rights of primogeniture. ³² And Esau said, Lo! I am going to die, what then are these rights of primogeniture to me? ³³ And Jacob said to him, Swear now to me. So he swore to him. Thus were Esau's rights of primogeniture transferred to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil pottage. And when he had eaten and drunk he arose and went away. Thus did Esau undervalue the rights of primogeniture.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, therefore he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, therefore he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said to him, It is better for me to give her to thee than to give her to another man. Abide with me. ²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her.

²⁰ So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they appeared to him as a few days, because he loved her.

³⁰ And Jacob went in unto Rachel, and loved Rachel more than Leia, and served him other seven years. ³¹ Now when the Lord God saw that Leia was slighted, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

³³ And she conceived again, and bore to Jacob another son, and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I am slighted, he hath given me this son also; so she called his name Symeon.

² And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, who was the prince of the country, saw her and took her and lay with her and humbled her. ³ And having applied himself to gain the affections of Deina the daughter of Jacob, for he loved the virgin, and having spoken to her according to the wishes of the virgin,

⁸ And Emmor spoke to them saying, My son Sychem hath a passionate fondness for your daughter, therefore give her to him for a wife,

³ Reuben my first born! Thou my strength and the head of my children! Too imperious and too self sufficient!

¹² Honour thy father and thy mother that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

⁷ When any man selleth his daughter to be a handmaid she shall not go away as those who are in bondage go. ⁸ If she please not her master provided he betrothed her for himself, he shall let her be redeemed; but he is not her master to sell her into another family, because he hath broken covenant with her: ⁹ but if he betroth her for his son, he shall deal by her according to the privilege of daughters. ¹⁰ And if the son take another for himself, he shall not deprive her of food and raiment and her marriage rites. ¹¹ And if he do not these three for her she shall go away ransom free.

¹⁵ He who smiteth his father or his mother shall be put to death.

¹⁷ He who curseth his father or his mother shall be put to death.

⁹ And on the seventh day he shall shave off all the hair on his head, and beard, and his eye brows; and having shaved off all his hair, he shall wash his clothes, and wash his body with water, and he shall be clean.

²⁵ and the land hath been polluted, and for its sake I have retributed to them their iniquity, and the land is become a mortal enemy to them who dwell therein.

³ Let every one reverence his father and his mother. And you shall keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God;

⁹ therefore if the daughter of a priest profane herself by whoredom, she profaneth the name of her father, she shall be burned with fire.

¹⁶ but let him who nameth the name of Lord be put to death. Let the whole congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a proselyte, or born among them, when he nameth the name of the Lord, let him die.

¹⁹ and the priest shall adjure the woman, and say to her, If no man hath lain with thee; if thou hast not transgressed, so as to be defiled, while under the jurisdiction of thy husband; be thou uninjured by this water of discovery, over which an imprecation is to be made: ²⁰ but if thou hast transgressed, being a married woman, or art polluted, and any person besides thy husband hath lain with thee, ²¹ [then the priest shall adjure the woman with solemn imprecations, and the priest shall say to the woman] the Lord make thee a curse and an imprecation in the midst of thy people, by causing thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to be inflamed. ²² Let this water over which this imprecation is made, go into thy belly, to inflame thy belly, and rot thy thigh. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen. ²³ Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and dip it in the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, ²⁴ and shall cause the woman to drink the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made. And the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go into her; ²⁵ [The priest shall take the sacrifice of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and lay the sacrifice before the Lord, and offer it on the altar; ²⁶ and when the priest shall have taken a handful of the sacrifice, the memorial of it, and offered it on the altar, after this he shall cause the woman to drink the water] ²⁷ and it shall come to pass that if she be defiled, and escape the notice of her husband, when the water of discovery, over which the imprecation was made, shall go into her, it shall inflame her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be a curse among her people. ²⁸ But if the woman be not polluted, and be pure, she shall be uninjured, and shall conceive seed.

⁹ And if any one die suddenly by him, the head of his vow will be immediately defiled, he shall therefore shave his head on the day when he is cleansed. On the seventh day it shall be shaved,

²² Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ Speak to Aaron and his sons and say, In this manner you shall bless the children of Israel, saying, ²⁴ The Lord bless thee and keep thee; ²⁵ The Lord make his countenance to shine upon thee, and be gracious to thee; ²⁶ The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. ²⁷ So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I the Lord will bless them.

² This is the purification of the law in respect to all the things which the Lord hath enjoined, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and let them bring thee a red heifer, without blemish, which hath no spot in her, and on which there hath never been put a yoke.

⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel.

¹⁸ But save alive, for yourselves, every captive among the women, who hath not known a man.

³³ So you will not pollute with blood the land in which you dwell; for this blood polluteth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed from the blood which is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. ³⁴ You must not defile the land in which you dwell; in which I dwell among you; for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

²⁶ therefore thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house; for thou wilt be an Anathema as well as it. Thou shalt utterly detest it, and hold it in utter abomination; for it is an Anathema, [a devoted thing.]

⁵ so that thou must know in thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee;

⁸ Now the Lord, having at that time set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord, and to serve, and bless in his name, as they do at this day,

⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken to lead thee astray from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage; to put thee out of the way in which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you.

¹⁸ if thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments which I this day command you; to do what is comely and well pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people.

¹⁸ Thou shalt appoint for thyself judges, and promulgators of the law, in the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, in every tribe. And they shall administer just judgment to the people. ¹⁹ They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

⁵ thou shalt bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, till they die.

⁸ And if any cause which requireth judicial decision; an action of murder, an action of appeal, a case of leprosy, an action of plaint and denial; any causes which require decision in any of your cities, be too difficult for thee, thou shalt arise, and go up to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, ⁹ and there come to the priests, the Levites, or to the judge, who 10 ever he may be in those days, and they shall inquire, and declare to thee the sentence of judgment, ¹⁰ and thou shalt act according to what they declare to thee from the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen: and thou shalt be careful to do according to what is expounded to thee for law. ¹¹ According to the law, and according to the sentence of judgment, which they tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not deviate from what ¹² they tell thee, either to the right, or to the left. And if any man act presumptuously, so as not to hearken to the priest who hath stood to minister to the name of the Lord thy God; or to the judge who may be in those days; that man shall be put to death. So thou shalt remove the evil person from among Israel,

⁵ Because the Lord hath chosen him, out of all thy tribes, to stand before the Lord God, to minister and to bless, in his name; therefore with regard to him and his sons,

⁶ Lest the avenger of blood pursuing, because his heart is inflamed, should overtake him, if the way be too long, and slay him, though he is not guilty of death, because he hated him not in time past;

¹² the senate of his city shall send and take him thence, and deliver him into the hands of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death. ¹³ Thine eye shall not spare him. So shalt thou purge away guiltless blood from Israel, and it shall be well with thee.

¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

¹⁹ you shall do to him as he wickedly thought to do to his brother. thou shalt remove the evil from among you; ²⁰ and the rest, when they hear, will be afraid, and thenceforth proceed no more to commit such evil among you.

¹⁰ And when thou art come to a city, to fight against it, thou shalt call upon the inhabitants to come out peaceably. ¹¹ And if they return thee a peaceful answer, and open to thee; all the people who are found therein shall be tributary to thee, and be thy subjects. ¹² But if they hearken not to thee, and make war against thee, thou shalt besiege it, ¹³ until the Lord thy God deliver it into thy hands. And when thou hast smitten all the males therein with the slaughter of the sword, ¹⁴ thou shalt take for thyself, besides the women and the children, all the cattle, and all spoils that are in the city, and eat all the prey of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ¹⁵ In this manner thou shalt treat all the cities which are at a great distance from thee, which are not of the cities of those nations whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession. ¹⁶ Of these you shall save none alive that breatheth:

² thy senate, and thy judges, shall come and measure the distance to the cities around the slain;

¹⁹ and fine him a hundred shekels, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he brought an ill name on a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife. He shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.

²¹ they shall carry out the young woman to the doors of her father's house, and stone her with stones, till she die, because she hath committed folly in Israel, by making her father's house a place of prostitution. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

²⁴ you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city, and stone them with stones, till they die: the young woman, because she did not cry aloud in the city, and the man because he humbled the wife of his neighbour. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.

²⁶ The young woman is not guilty of death. As when a man hath risen up against his neighbour, and killed him, even so is this matter:

²⁹ the man who hath lain with her shall pay the father of the young woman fifty didrachms of silver, and she shall be his wife: because he hath humbled her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away, all the days of his life.

⁷ And if any man decline to take his brother's wife, the woman shall go to the gate, to the senate, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel. My husband's brother hath refused.

¹⁶ Cursed he who slighteth his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹² therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before the face of their enemies. They shall turn back before their enemies, because they are become devoted. I will no more be with you, unless you remove the Anathema from among you.

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Gai on a gibbet; and he continued on the gibbet till the evening. But, at the setting of the sun, Joshua gave orders, and they took down his body from the gibbet, and threw it into a pit; and raised over it a heap of stones, which remaineth to this day.

²⁶ So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till evening.

²⁶ So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till evening. ²⁷ And at the setting of the sun Joshua gave orders, and they took them down from the gibbets, and threw them into the cave, and rolled stones on the cave, which still remain.

⁴⁴ and the Lord gave them rest round about, as he sware to their fathers. Of all their enemies not one rose up against them. The Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

² and he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman at Thamnatha, of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me for a wife. ³ And his father and his mother said to him, Are there not daughters of thy brethren, or a woman among my whole tribe, that thou shouldst go to take a wife from among the uncircumcised Philistines? But Sampson said to his father, Get this woman for me; for she is right in my eyes.

²⁴ Behold here is my daughter, a virgin, and his concubine; I will bring them out, and you may humble them and do to them what seemeth good in your eyes, but to the man you must not do such an act of folly.

⁴ And his custom was, on the day when Elkana had offered sacrifices, he gave portions to his wife Phennana, and her children, ⁵ and to Anna he gave one portion, because she had not a child. Nevertheless, Elkana loved Anna more than the other, though the Lord had shut up her womb.

¹⁶ This thing which thou hast done is not good. As the Lord liveth, you who guard your lord the king; the anointed of the Lord, are guilty of death; for see now, I pray thee, the king's lance, and the cup of water, where are they which were at his head?

²⁸ And when David afterward heard, he said, Guiltless am I and my kingdom, before the Lord for ever, from the blood of Abenner, son of Ner.

¹² Then David gave orders to his servants, and they instantly slew them, and cut off their hands, and their feet, and hanged them up by the pool of Chebron. And they buried the head of Jebosthe in the grave of Abenner son of Ner.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when his iniquity shall come, I will correct him with a rod of men, and with scourges of the children of men,

⁸ The Lord hath retorted on thee all the blood of the house of Saul. Because thou hast reigned in his stead, therefore the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hands of Abessalom thy son. And behold thou art in distress, be 9 cause thou art a bloody man.

⁶ Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

⁹ and delivered them into the hands of the Gabaonites, and they crucified them on the mount before the Lord. So these seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest of first fruits, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

³⁰ Though the Lord said to Jehu, Because thou hast taken a pleasure in doing what is right in my sight, and hast done to the house of Achab according to all that was in my heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel; ³¹ yet Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with his whole heart. He did not refrain from following the sins of Jeroboam who had caused Israel to sin.

⁴ Joakim shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with it. Therefore the Lord would not be pacified.

¹ And the sons of Reuben the first born of Israel; for he was the first born, but when he went up to his father's bed, his father gave his birth right to his son Joseph as the son of Israel: yet in the genealogy he did not attain the right of primogeniture; ² for Juda being mighty in power prevailed over his brethren to have the Ruler appointed out of him, though the blessing was Joseph's.

² for Juda being mighty in power prevailed over his brethren to have the Ruler appointed out of him, though the blessing was Joseph's.

¹³ The sons of Ambram were Aaron and Moses. Now Aaron was set apart for the sanctification of the most holy things, he and his sons, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister in the priest's office, and to bless in his name forever

¹⁰ Osa, also of the children of Merari, had sons who kept up his chieftancy. Because he was not first born, therefore his father made him chief of the second branch.

¹⁹ who bore him sons, namely Jeus and Samoria and Zaam; ²⁰ and after that he took to wife Maacha a daughter of Abessalom, and she bore him Abia and Jetthi and Zoza and Salemoth. ²¹ And Roboam loved Maacha, daughter of Abessalom, more than all his wives and concubines, [for he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and by them he had twenty eight sons and sixty daughters;] ²² so he appointed Abia the son of Maacha to be chief and ruler among his brothers. Because he determined to make him king,

³ And their father gave them many gifts, silver and gold, and arms and walled cities in Judea, and gave the kingdom to Joram, because he was his first born.

³⁰ For though I have washed myself with snow, and purified myself with clean hands:

²¹ Because his desire is in his family with him; therefore the number of their months should be cut short. ²² Is it not the Lord who teacheth wisdom and understanding, and doth he discriminate murderers? ²³ One is to die in his full strength, all his life being successful and prosperous;

³¹ Who shall tell him his way to his face, and who shall retribute to him what he hath done? ³² Even when he should be carried to the burying place, he had caused a watch to be kept over his tomb. ³³ The flints of the torrent have been sweetened for him, and every man shall go after him, as innumerable have gone before him. ³⁴ How then do ye comfort me with vanity? There is nothing from you to give me consolation.

⁶ thou wilt destroy all them who speak lies; a bloody and deceitful man the Lord abhorreth.

³ Lord, my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands: ⁴ if I have requited them evil who did me wrong; let me fall by mine enemies as a Worthless man:

¹² for in making inquisition for blood, he had them in remembrance; he forgot not the prayer of the distressed.

¹² Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from those of mine which are hid;

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence and go round thine altar, O Lord:

¹⁰ Hear, daughter, and behold, and incline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house. ¹¹ Because the king is enamoured of thy beauty; because he is thy Lord;

² wash me thoroughly from this iniquity of mine; and purify me from this my sin.

⁷ Sprinkle me with hyssop and I shall be purified; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood guiltiness, God, the God of my salvation! That my tongue may with joy proclaim thy forgiving mercy.

¹³ Nay, I myself said, Have I then in vain kept my heart just; and washed my hands in innocence.

³⁶ Then he smote every first born of their land; the first fruits of all their labour;

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father and reject not the maxims of thy mother:

²⁵ Let not a lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids.

²⁴ He who spareth the rod hateth his son; but he who loveth him correcteth diligently.

⁵ A fool despiseth the instruction of a father: but he who keepeth commands is more prudent. Where righteousness aboundeth there is much power: but the wicked being utterly rooted out of the land, shall perish.

¹⁸ Chasten thy son, for thus he will be hopeful; but be not in thy soul transported to haughtiness.

²⁶ He who bringeth dishonour on a father and causeth his mother to flee; shall be exposed to shame and shall be reproached.

¹ Wine is intemperate, and drunkenness scornful. And with these every fool is entangled.

²⁰ Whosoever curseth father or mother; let his lamp be extinguished and his eye balls involved in darkness.

¹⁵ Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: but a rod and instruction will drive it from him.

¹³ Refrain not from correcting a child: for if thou beat him with a rod, thou mayst prevent his death. ¹⁴ For thou wilt beat him with a rod and deliver his soul from death.

¹⁹ Hear, my son and be wise and direct the thoughts of thy heart aright. ²⁰ Be not a wine bibber, nor devoted to clubs: and to the purchasing of flesh meat. ²¹ For every one addicted to revelling and stews shall come to beggary: and every one given to sleep shall be clothed with rags and tatters.

²⁹ Who hath Woes? Who hath trouble? Who hath law suits? Who hath vexations and squabbles? Who hath Wounds with out cause? Whose are the eyes suffused with blood? ³⁰ Are they not theirs who tarry long at wine; who frequent the places where there are revels? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with righteous men: and converse in the publick walks. ³¹ For if thou givest thine eyes to cups and goblets; thou wilt go about afterwards naked as a pestle: ³² and be, at last, like one swollen by the bite of a serpent; or as one stung by a basilisk. ³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely. ³⁴ And thou wilt lie as in the midst of the sea: and like a pilot in a mighty storm. ³⁵ And thou wilt say, They have beaten me and I felt no pain; they insulted me and I was not sensible of it. When will it be day; that I may go and seek with whom I can have a meeting.

¹⁷ He who is bail for a man in a case of murder, shall be a fugitive, but not in safety. Correct a son and he will love thee and be an ornament to thy life. He will not hearken to an unrighteous nation.

²⁴ He who casteth off a father or mother and thinketh that he doth not sin; is indeed the partner of an impious man.

¹⁷ Correct thy son and he will give thee rest; and add honour to thy life.

¹¹ A wicked progeny curse their father and bless not their mother.

¹⁷ The eye which derideth a father and despiseth the old age of a mother, may the ravens of the valley pick it out, and the young eagles devour it.

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? Such a one is indeed more valuable than precious stones.

³⁰ False are allurements, and vain the beauty of a wife. For a woman of understanding is blessed. Let her therefore praise the fear of the Lord.

² Hearken, heaven! and hear earth! what the Lord hath spoken. "I have begotten children and brought them up; and they have rebelled against me.

⁵ What! must you persisting in iniquity be smitten still more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint:

²¹ For behold the Lord from his sanctuary is about to bring wrath on the inhabitants of this land; and the land will disclose the blood on it, and will no longer cover the slain.

²² Though thou wash thyself with nitre and use much soap: thou art stained by thine iniquities in my sight, saith the Lord.

³ [p] Lord, thine eyes look for faithfulness. Thou hast chastised them: but they have not grieved. Thou hast consumed them and they would not receive instruction. They have made their faces harder than a rock and refused to return.

¹⁵ But be assured that if you put me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves and upon this city and upon the inhabitants thereof. For in truth, the Lord hath sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

¹⁸ I have heard the voice of Ephraim moaning, "Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised. I like a bullock was uninstructed, bring me back that I may return; for thou art the Lord my God.

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

³ who in their youth had committed whoredom in Egypt. There they were first deflowered.

²⁴ And they shall come against thee from the north with chariots and wheeled carriages, and a multitude of peoples with bucklers and shields. And when a guard is set on thee round about, I will give judgment before them and they shall punish thee by their judgments. ²⁵ And I will give a loose to my jealousy; and they shall deal with thee with furious wrath, they shall cut off thy nose and thine ears; and the remains of thee they shall hack with a sword. They shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and a fire shall devour the residue of thee.

¹³ Its verdigrease shall be exposed to shame. Because thou wast polluted what else could be done, since thou wouldst not be cleansed till I filled up my wrath?

¹¹ I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorra; and you became like a brand plucked out of fire. Now as even for this you have not turned to me, saith the Lord, ¹² therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, Israel, to invoke thy God:

¹⁴ then they cried to the Lord and said, Forbid it, Lord, that we perish, for the life of this man, and bring not upon us innocent blood; for thou, Lord, hast done according to thy pleasure.

³ And it shall come to pass that if any man shall still prophesy, even his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord. And his father and his mother who begot him will bind him when he prophesieth.

⁷ Because the lips of a priest were to keep knowledge therefore law was to be sought from his mouth; since he is a messenger of the Lord Almighty:

²⁸ Come to me all ye who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take upon you my yoke and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

⁶⁶ What think ye? Thereupon they, answering, said, He is guilty of death.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he could not in the least prevail, but that a tumult rather was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am clear from the blood of this innocent person. Look ye to it. ²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

⁶⁴ You have heard this blasphemy. What think ye? And they all adjudged him to be liable to death.

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whosoever doth not take up his cross and follow me, he cannot be my disciple.

³³ And when they came to the place called Calvary, they there crucified him and the two malefactors, one on his right hand and the other on his left.

³¹ Now that the bodies might not remain on the cross during the sabbath, therefore when it was preparation time [for that sabbath was a great day] the Jews besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and the bodies removed.

³¹ Now that the bodies might not remain on the cross during the sabbath, therefore when it was preparation time [for that sabbath was a great day] the Jews besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and the bodies removed. ³² The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and also of the other who had been crucified with him. ³³ But when they came to Jesus, as they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers with his spear pierced his side, and blood and water issued forth immediately. ³⁵ Now he who was an eye witness hath testified this. And his testimony is true, and [Jesus] himself knoweth that he speaketh the truth that you may believe. ³⁶ For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." ³⁷ And again another scripture saith, "They will look on him whom they have pierced." ³⁸ After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but for fear of the Jews, a concealed one, asked leave of Pilate to take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. He therefore came and took away the body of Jesus.

²⁹ and found that he was accused of matters touching questions of their law, but had done nothing that deserved death or imprisonment.

¹¹ If indeed I am guilty, or have committed any capital crime, I do not deprecate death: but if the charges which they bring against me be groundless, no man can give me up to gratify them. I appeal to Caesar.

²⁵ But as for me, finding that he had done nothing which deserved death, and he himself having appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.

³¹ And as they were withdrawing, they conferred with each other, saying, This man hath done nothing that deserveth death or chains.

⁴ When the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging to his hand they said to one another, This man is certainly a murderer whom vengeance suffereth not to live, though he hath escaped from the sea.

²⁹ For those whom he foreknew, even these he marked out beforehand to be of a form the same as that of the image of his son, that he might be a first born among many brethren.

³ [for I even I myself wished the followers of Christ to be devoted to destruction,] for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

³ For the rulers are not a terror to good works but to evil. Dost thou then wish not to dread the power? Do that which is good and thou shall have praise from it. ⁴ For it is a minister of God for good to thee. But if thou dost evil, be in dread; for it wieldeth not the sword in vain. For it is a minister of God, an avenger to execute wrath on him who doth evil.

⁶ For if a woman is not veiled, let her be shorn. But if it be shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be veiled.

²² If any one loveth not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be an Anathema. Maranatha.

²¹ for he hath made him who knew no sin, a sin offering for us, that by him we may be made the righteousness of God;

¹³ From this curse of the law Christ hath redeemed us, being made a curse for us; [for it is written, "Cursed, is every one who is suspended on a cross,"]

²² with respect to your former course of life, to put off the old man, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. ² Honour thy father and mother [this is the first commandment with a promise] ³ that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long on the earth.

⁸ and found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death, even the death of a cross;

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are venerable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are friendly, whatsoever things are reputable, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think of these things,

¹⁵ [from those indeed who slew the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God, and are in opposition to all men, ¹⁶ hindering us from speaking to the nations that they may be saved; thus, filling up the measure of their sins continually: but the wrath is at last coming upon them,]

¹⁰ they being things imposed barely for meats, and drinks, and divers baptisms, and rules of conduct respecting flesh, until the time of reformation:

⁹ Well then: we have had fathers of our flesh who have corrected us, and we have reverenced them; shall we not much more submit ourselves to the father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness. ¹¹ Now all correction seemeth, for the present, not to be matter of joy, but of grief; yet afterwards it produceth the peaceful fruit of righteousness to them who are exercised therewith.

¹⁶ that there be no fornicator, nor profane person like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birth right; ¹⁷ for you know that afterwards when he wished to inherit the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no way to change his father's mind, though he earnestly sought it with tears.

²¹ For to this you have been called, because Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps, ²² "Who committed no sin, nor was guile found in his mouth"; ²³ who when he was reviled, did not revile again, when he suffered, did not threaten; but committed himself to him who judgeth righteously; ²⁴ who himself offered up our sins in his own body on the cross, that we, being freed from those sins, might live for righteousness; "by whose stripes you have been healed."

¹⁸ Because Christ himself suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God: being indeed put to death in flesh, but brought to life by that spirit