Exodus Cross References - Thomson

¹ These are the names of Israel's sons who went down to Egypt with their father Jacob. They went every one with his whole family; ² Reuben, Symeon, Levi, Judas, ³ Issachar, Zabulon, Benjamin, ⁴ Dan and Nephthaleim, Gad and Aser. ⁵ Now Joseph was in Egypt. And all the souls from Jacob were seventy five. ⁶ And when Joseph was dead and all his brothers and all that generation ⁷ and the children of Israel had increased and multiplied and were become numerous and grew more and more powerful and the land caused them to abound, ⁸ there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. ⁹ And he said to his nation, Behold the race of the children of Israel is become a great multitude, and is mightier than we. ¹⁰ Come therefore, let us deal subtilly with them. Perhaps when they are multiplied, if a war should happen to us, they will join our enemies and fight against us and depart out of the land. ¹¹ So he set task masters over them to afflict them with labours and they built for Pharao fortified cities, namely, Peitho and Ramesses and On, which is Heliopolis. ¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew stronger and stronger. So the Egyptians were abhorred by the children of Israel; ¹³ and the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites with rigour ¹⁴ and made their lives bitter with hard labour in working clay and making bricks and with all the toils of the field, according to the several kinds of service to which they forcibly subjected them. ¹⁵ Moreover the king of the Egyptians spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the first in rank was Sepphora and the name of the second Phua, ¹⁶ and said, When you do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women and they are delivered, if it be a male child, kill it; but if it be a female preserve it alive. ¹⁷ But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the males. ¹⁸ Whereupon the king of Egypt sent for the midwives and said to them, why have you done this and saved the male children? ¹⁹ And the midwives said to Pharao, The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian; for they bring forth instantly. Before the midwives can come to them, they are delivered. ²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew mighty. ²¹ And because the midwives feared God they established families for themselves. ²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

²⁰ Then God said, "Let the waters produce moving creatures having life; and winged creatures flying above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." And it was so.

²⁸ And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

¹ Then God blessed Noe and his sons and said to them, "Increase and multiply and replenish the earth and have dominion over it;

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;

¹⁶ And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

⁵ Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be.

¹³ and it was said to Abram, Know assuredly that thy seed shall sojourn in a land not their own. And they shall be enslaved and afflicted and humbled. Four hundred years.

⁴ "On my part lo! this is my covenant with thee, Thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations, ⁵ and thy name shall no more be called Abram but thy name, shall be Abraham; because I have made thee the father of many nations: ⁶ And I will increase thee exceedingly, and cause thee to become nations; and kings shall spring from thee:

¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations."

¹¹ And Abraham said, I indeed thought, as there is no worship of God in this place, they will kill me for my wife's sake.

¹⁷ with blessings I will indeed bless thee; and I will multiply thy seed abundantly as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the sea shore: and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their adversaries;

⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

³ And may my God bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayst become a multitude of nations. ⁴ And may he give thee the blessing of my father Abraham, to thee and thy seed after thee, to inherit this land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee.

³¹ Now when the Lord God saw that Leia was slighted, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am thy God. Increase and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins.

¹⁸ And just as she was departing [for she died] she called his name Sun of my sorrow; but his father called his name Benjamin.

²² And while Israel dwelt in that land, Reuben went and lay with Balla the concubine of his father Jacob, and Israel heard of it, and it appeared evil in his sight. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve. ²³ The sons of Leia, Reuben, Jacob's first born, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon:

²³ The sons of Leia, Reuben, Jacob's first born, Symeon, Levi, Judas, Issachar, Zabulon: ²⁴ and the sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin; ²⁵ and the sons of Balla, Rachel's handmaid, Dan and Nephthaleim: ²⁶ and the sons of Zelpha, Leia's handmaid, Gad and Aser. These were the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Syrian Mesopotamia.

¹ But it happened that at the end of two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he was standing by the river;

¹⁸ And on the third day he said to them, Do this and live; for I fear God.

³ And God said to him, I am the God of thy fathers. Fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will make thee there a great nation.

⁸ Now these are the names of Israel's children who went down to Egypt with their father Jacob. Jacob and his Children. The first born of Jacob was Reuben, ⁹ and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and Phallus, Asron and Charmi. ¹⁰ And the sons of Symeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Aod and Achin and Saar and Saul the son of a Chananitish woman. ¹¹ And the sons of Levi, Gerson, Kaath and Merari. ¹² And the sons of Judas were Er and Aunan and Selom and Phares and Zara but Er and Aunan died in the land of Chanaan. And the sons of Phares were Esron and Jemuel. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar were Thola and Phua and Asum and Sambran. ¹⁴ And the sons of Zabulon, Sered and Allon and Achoel. ¹⁵ These were the sons of Leia whom she bore to Jacob in Syrian Mesopotamia with Deina his daughter. All the souls, sons and daughters were thirty three. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad; Saphon and Aggis and Sannis and Thasoban and Aodeis and Aroedeis and Areeleis. ¹⁷ And the sons of Aser; Jemna and Jessua and Jeus and Baria with Sara their sister. And the sons of Baria; Chobar and Melchiil. ¹⁸ These were the children of Zelpha whom Laban gave to his daughter Leia and she bore them to Jacob. Sixteen souls. ¹⁹ And the children of Rachel the wife of Jacob were Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And to Joseph children were born in the land of Egypt, whom Aseneth the daughter of Petephres, the priest of Heliopolis, bore to him, namely, Manasses and Ephraim. And to Manasses, there were sons born, whom his concubine Syra bore to him, namely, Machir. And Machir begot Galaad. And the sons of Ephraim the brother of Manasses were Soutalaam and Taam. And the sons of Soutalaam, Edom. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were Bala and Bochor and Asbel. And to Bala there were sons born, namely, Gera and Noeman and Achis and Ros and Mamphim, and Gera begot Arad. ²² These, were the children of Rachel, whom she bore to Jacob. All the souls were eighteen. ²³ And the sons of Dan; Asom. ²⁴ And the sons of Nephthaleim; Asiel and Goni and Issaar and Sellem. ²⁵ These were the children of Balla whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore them to Jacob. All the souls, seven. ²⁶ So all the souls who went with Jacob into Egypt, even all who sprung from him, exclusive of the wives of Jacob's children; All the souls were sixty six.

²⁶ So all the souls who went with Jacob into Egypt, even all who sprung from him, exclusive of the wives of Jacob's children; All the souls were sixty six. ²⁷ And including the children of Joseph who were born to him in the land of Egypt, being nine, all the souls of Jacob's house who came with Jacob into Egypt were seventy five.

¹¹ And Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land of Ramesses, as Pharao had ordered.

²⁷ Thus Israel became sojourners in the land of Egypt in the district of Gesem, and they had possessions therein and increased and multiplied exceedingly.

⁴ and said, Behold I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee and make thee a multitude of nations, and I will give thee this land even to thy seed after thee for a perpetual possession.

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

³ Reuben my first born! Thou my strength and the head of my children! Too imperious and too self sufficient! ⁴ In the excess of thy insolence, Thou shouldst not have burst forth like water. For thou wentest up to thy father's bed, Then thou pollutedst the couch to which thou wentest up. ⁵ Symeon and Levi are brothers. They accomplished their iniquitous purpose. ⁶ My soul, come not into their council; And in their conspiracy let not my passions be engaged. Because in their wrath they slew men, And in their rage ham-strung a bull; ⁷ Cursed be their wrath, for it was headstrong; And their enmity, for it was bitter. I will parcel them out in Jacob And scatter them among Israel. ⁸ Judas! Let thy brethren praise thee: Thy hands will be on the back of thy enemies. The sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. ⁹ Judas is a lion's whelp. From a vigorous stem, my son, thou art sprung. Couching down thou art gone to sleep like a young lion: Who dare rouse him! ¹⁰ A chief shall not fail from Judas. Nor a leader from his loins; Till the things reserved for him shall come; Even He, the expectation of nations. ¹¹ Binding his colt to a vine And his asses colt to the young vine, He will wash his robe in wine, And his mantle in the blood of the grape. ¹² His eyes are more exhilarating than wine, And his teeth are whiter than milk. ¹³ Zabulon shall dwell by the sea; And he will be near the haven of ships, And will extend as far as Sidon. ¹⁴ Issachar desired earnestly what was good, Halting between two choices. ¹⁵ But seeing the resting place, that it was good, And the land, that it was fertile, He bowed his shoulder to labour And became a husbandman. ¹⁶ Dan will judge his people And be like a tribe in Israel. ¹⁷ Let Dan be indeed a serpent in the way, Lying in watch in a path, Biting the horse's heel, That the horseman may fall backwards; ¹⁸ Waiting continually the salvation of the Lord. ¹⁹ Gad: Troops of plunderers will plunder him; And he to his utmost, will plunder them. ²⁰ Aser. His meat will be fat And he will furnish dainties for princes. ²¹ Nephthaleim is a spreading stock, Super-adding beauty by its product. ²² Joseph is a fruitful son. My fruitful son was envied. Abide with me, my younger son, Against whom calumniators brought false accusations. ²³ Though the masters of bows took aim at him; Yet their bows and their strength were broken, And the sinewy arms of their hands enfeebled By the hand of the mighty One of Jacob. ²⁴ Thence he who hath strengthened Israel Is from the God of thy father; ²⁵ And My God hath helped thee; and blessed thee With the blessing of heaven from above, And with the blessing of a land having all things, By reason of the blessing of breasts and womb, ²⁶ He hath made the blessings of thy father and mother, More durable than the blessings of perpetual mountains, And more permanent than the blessings of everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph And on the crown of the head of brothers Of whom he was the leader. ²⁷ Benjamin is a ravening wolf. In the morning he is still eating, and for the evening he provideth food.

²⁴ Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, but God will assuredly visit you and conduct you out of this land into the land which God with an oath gave to our fathers, Abraham, Isaak and Jacob.

²⁶ So Joseph died being a hundred and ten years old, and when they had embalmed him they put him into a coffin in Egypt.

⁷ and the children of Israel had increased and multiplied and were become numerous and grew more and more powerful and the land caused them to abound,

⁹ And he said to his nation, Behold the race of the children of Israel is become a great multitude, and is mightier than we.

¹² But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew stronger and stronger. So the Egyptians were abhorred by the children of Israel; ¹³ and the Egyptians ruled over the Israelites with rigour

¹⁶ and said, When you do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women and they are delivered, if it be a male child, kill it; but if it be a female preserve it alive.

²⁰ And God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew mighty. ²¹ And because the midwives feared God they established families for themselves. ²² Then Pharao gave orders to all his people saying, Every male child which is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the river, but preserve every female alive.

¹¹ And after a course of many years, when Moses was become great he went out to his brethren the children of Israel. And as he was observing their distress, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, who was one of his brethren the children of Israel.

²³ And after those many years the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned under their labours and raised a loud outcry; and their cry on account of their labours ascended up to God.

⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on the account of their task masters; for I know their sorrow,

⁴ Thereupon the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, divert the people from their labours? Begone each of you to his work. ⁵ And Pharao said, Behold this people is now numerous, therefore we must not let them rest from their labours. ⁶ So Pharao gave orders to the task masters of the people and to the clerks saying, ⁷ You shall no more give the people straw to make bricks as heretofore; but let them go and gather straw for themselves; ⁸ yet the daily task of brick making which they now perform, you shall lay upon them. Thou shalt make no abatement; for they are idle. Therefore they have cried saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ⁹ Let the work of these men be made heavy and let them employ their thoughts about that, and not trouble themselves with vain discourses. ¹⁰ Upon this the task masters and clerks hurried them and spoke to the people saying, Thus saith Pharao, I will no more give you straw; ¹¹ go and collect straw for yourselves where you can find it; for no abatement shall be made of your task. ¹² So the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble instead of straw. ¹³ And the task masters urged them saying, Compleat the customary daily task as when straw was furnished you. ¹⁴ And when they beat the clerks of the nation of the Israelites who were set over them by the officers of Pharao and said, Why have you not as heretofore compleated your tasks of brick making to day? ¹⁵ the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy servants?

¹⁵ the clerks of the children of Israel went and cried to Pharao saying, Why dost thou deal thus with thy servants? ¹⁶ There is no straw given to thy servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. And lo! thy servants are beaten. Wilt thou then deal unjustly with thy people? ¹⁷ But he said to them, You are idle: You are idlers. Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. ¹⁸ Go therefore now and work; for there shall be no straw given you, yet you shall deliver the task of bricks. ¹⁹ So the clerks of the children of Israel saw themselves in a miserable situation, when they said, You shall be allowed no abatement from the customary daily task of brick making. ²⁰ And upon meeting Moses and Aaron who had come to meet them as they came out from Pharao ²¹ they said to them, God look upon you and judge. For you have made the smell of us horrible before Pharao and before his servants to put a sword in his hand to kill us.

⁶ Go speak to the children of Israel and say, I am the Lord and I will bring you out from the bondage of the Egyptians, and deliver you from this slavery, and redeem you with an uplifted arm and with great decision ⁷ and take you to myself for my own people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I the Lord am your God, who brought you out from the tyranny of the Egyptians.

⁹ In these terms Moses spoke to the Israelites; but they hearkened not to him on account of their despondency, and on account of their hard labours.

¹⁴ these were the chief leaders of their patriarchal houses. The sons of Reuben the first born of Israel, Enoch and Phallus, Asron and Carmi. This was the family of Reuben. ¹⁵ And the sons of Symeon were Jemuel and Jamin and Aod and Jachin and Saar and Saul the son of a Chananitish woman. These were the patriarchal houses of the Symeonites. ¹⁶ And these are the names of the children of Levi according to their families, Gerson, Kaath and Merari. Now the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty seven.

¹⁹ Moreover the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy staff in thy hand and stretch forth thy hand against the waters of Egypt, against the rivers and against the canals and against their ponds and against all their reservoirs of water; and they shall become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in the cisterns of wood and in those of stone. ²⁰ So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. And lifting up his staff he smote the water in the river in the presence of Pharao and before all his attendants and changed all the water of the river into blood. ²¹ And the fishes which were in the river died. And the river stunk so that the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river. And there was blood in all the land of Egypt.

³⁷ and the Israelites to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children began their march from Ramesses to Succoth.

² I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage.

²⁰ and the fourth row, a chrysolite and a beryl and an onyx. They must be cased in gold, and bound together with gold according to their rows.

⁴³ Thou shall not over burthen him with toil, but fear the Lord thy God.

⁴⁶ Let them be your property, and divide them among your children after you, and they shall be your slaves for life: but of your brethren, the children of Israel, one shall not rule over another with rigour.

⁵³ As a servant hired from year to year, he shall be with him; and thou shalt not suffer him to be oppressed with labour in thy sight.

¹⁵ Our fathers went down in 16 to Egypt, and we have sojourned in Egypt many years. And when the Egyptians ill treated us and our fathers,

⁴ and said to the Senate of Madiam, Now will this congregation lick up all around us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. Now Balak, son of Sepphor, was at that time king of Moab, ⁵ he therefore had sent messengers to Balaam, son of Beor, at Pathoura, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to invite him to come to him, saying, Behold there is a people come out of Egypt; and lo! they have covered the face of this land, and are settled down near me. ⁶ Now therefore come, curse for me this people; for they are stronger than I. Perhaps I may be able to smite some of them, and drive them out of this land: for I know that they whom thou blessest are blessed, and they whom thou cursest are cursed.

²⁰ God hath indeed taken you and brought you out of the land of Egypt; out of the iron furnace; out of Egypt, to be to him a chosen people, as at this day;

²² With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee like the stars of heaven for multitude.

⁵ and in the presence of the Lord shall answer, and say, My father left Syria, and went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, with a small number, and became there a great nation, and a vast multitude. ⁶ And when the Egyptians afflicted us, and humbled us, and imposed upon us hard labours,

⁴ Now the woman had taken the two men, and hid them: so she spoke to the messengers, saying, The men came to me; ⁵ but at dark, when the gate was shutting, the men went out, and I do not know where they are gone. Pursue them: perhaps you may overtake them. ⁶ Now she had taken them up to the top of the house, and concealed them under flax, which was piled up for her on the top of the house. ⁷ And the men pursued them by the way to the Jordan, to the fords, and the gate was shut. ⁸ So when the pursuers were gone after them, she went up to the men, on the top of the house, before they had gone to sleep, ⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: ¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, ¹² swear now to me by the Lord your God, because I shew mercy to you, that you will shew mercy to my father's house; ¹³ and that you will save alive my father's household, my mother, and my brothers, and all my family, and all that belong to them, and that you will deliver my soul from death. ¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours even to death. Then she said to them. When the Lord delivereth up to you this city, you will deal mercifully and truly with me. ¹⁵ So she lowered them down through a window. ¹⁶ Now she said to them, Flee to the mountains, lest the pursuers meet you, and hide yourself there three days, until they who are in pursuit of you have returned, and afterwards you may go your way. ¹⁷ And the men said to her, We are sincere in the oath which we have sworn to thee. ¹⁸ Behold when we enter any part of the city, thou shalt put up this signal; Thou shalt tye this scarlet rope to the window, through which thou shalt have let us down; and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brothers, and all thy father's household, home to thy house. ¹⁹ And it shall be that whoever goeth out of the door of thy house, into the street, shall incur the guilt of his own death, and we shall be clear of blame in regard to this oath which we have sworn to thee. But for all who are with thee in the house we will be answerable. ²⁰ But if any one injure us, or if thou disclose these our terms, we shall be clear of this oath to thee. ²¹ And she said to them, Let it be as you say. ²² So she dismissed them, and they went away, and came to the hilly country, and stayed there three days. And the pursuers examined all the roads, but did not find them. ²³ Then the two young men turned, and came down from the mountain, and crossed over to Joshua son of Nave, and told him all that had happened to them. ²⁴ And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of the land are in the utmost consternation because of us.

³⁰ Now Gideon had seventy sons who proceeded from his loins, for he had many wives.

²⁰ But she said to them, Call me not, I pray you, Noemin. Call me, Bitter: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

³⁵ And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do all that is in my heart and in my mind; and I will build for him a faithful house, and he shall go out before my anointed for ever.

² Thereupon David said to the priest, The king hath given me to-day a business in charge, and said to me, Let none know the business on which I send thee, and with which I have charged thee; therefore I appointed my servants to meet me at the place called Faith of God Phellani Maemoni.

²⁸ Forgive, I beseech thee, what is amiss in thy servant. Because the Lord will assuredly make for my lord a faithful house; because the Lord will fight the battle of my lord, therefore there must never be iniquity found in thee.

¹¹ from the days I appointed judges over my people Israel: and I will give thee rest from all thine enemies, and the Lord will tell thee that thou art to build a house for him. ¹² And it shall come to pass when thy days are fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up after thee the seed of thee who shall spring from thy loins, and I will establish his kingdom. ¹³ He shall build a house for my name, and I will raise up again his throne for ever.

²⁷ O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, thou hast made a revelation to thy servant, saying, I am to build a house for thee; therefore thy servant hath found this disposition of his heart to make this prayer to thee. ²⁸ And now, Lord, my Lord, Thou art God, and thy words will be true, and thou hast spoken these good things respecting thy servant, ²⁹ now then begin and bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee. Since thou Lord, my Lord, hast spoken, therefore with thy blessing, let the house of thy servant be blessed, that it may continue for ever.

²⁸ And Abessalom made a banquet like that of the king. And Abessalom gave a charge to his servants saying, Observe when the heart of Amnon is elated with wine, and I say to you, Smite Amnon; then put him to death. Be not afraid, for it is I who command you. Acquit yourselves like men, and be sons of valour.

²⁰ And when the servants of Abessalom came to the woman, into the house and said, Where are Achimaas and Jonathan? The woman said, They went a little while ago over the water. And when they had sought, but did not find them, they Rev_21:1-27 turned to Jerusalem. And when they were gone, Achimaas and Jonathan came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said to him, Arise and cross the water with all speed: for thus hath Achitophel counselled concerning you.

²⁴ Now therefore as the Lord liveth, who hath prepared me, and set me on the throne of my father David, and hath made for me a house, as he hath spoken, Adonias shall this day be put to death.

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³⁸ And if thou wilt keep all that I will give thee in charge and walk in my ways, and do what is right before me, keeping my statutes, and my commandments, as my servant David did, I will be with thee, and I will build for thee a sure house, as I did for David.

¹ These are the names of the sons Israel, Reuben, Symeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Zabulon, ² Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Nephthaleim, Gad, Aser.

²³ Now these were the rolls of the chiefs of the army who came to David to Chebron, to transfer the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord. ²⁴ The children of Juda armed with shields and spears, six thousand eight hundred, fit for the array of battle; ²⁵ of the Symeonites fit for the array of battle, seven thousand one hundred; ²⁶ of the Levites, four thousand six hundred, ²⁷ and Joadas the leader of the house of Aaron, and with him three thousand seven hundred, ²⁸ with Sadok a young man of valour, and of his patriarchal family twenty two chiefs; ²⁹ and of the Benjaminites, Saul's brethren, three thousand; but still the greater part of them kept the watch of Saul's house; ³⁰ of the Ephraimites, twenty thousand eight hundred valiant men, the most renowned in the houses of their respective families; ³¹ and of the half of the tribe of Manasses, eighteen thousand, who were enrolled for the express purpose of making David king ³² and of the children of Issachar, men who had knowledge suitable for the times, who knew what Israel should do, two hundred chiefs, and all their brethren with them; ³³ and from Zabulon there came ready for battle, with all the implements of war with them, fifty thousand, to assist David effectually; ³⁴ and from Nephthaleim, a thousand chiefs, and with them thirty seven thousand, armed with shields and spears; ³⁵ and from the Danites, twenty eight thousand eight hundred, marshalled for battle; ³⁶ and from Aser they who go forth for battle, forty thousand; ³⁷ and from beyond the Jordan; from battle and Gad, and from the half of the tribe of Manasses, with all the implements of war, a hundred and twenty thousand. ³⁸ All these warriors were arrayed for battle, with a peaceable intention. They came to Chebron to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of Israel were of one mind that David should be king. ³⁹ And they were three days eating and drinking. For their brethren made provision for them. ⁴⁰ And they who were nearest, as far as Zabulon and Issachar and Nephthaleim brought provisions for them on camels and asses and mules and oxen, namely, flour, fig cakes, dried grapes, wine and oil, with cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

¹⁶ And over the tribes of Israel" Over Reuben, Eliezer the son of Zechri was ruler; over Symeon, Saphatias the son of Maachi; ¹⁷ over Levi, Asabias the son of Kamuel; over the Aaronites, Sadok; ¹⁸ over Juda, Eliab, David's eldest brother; over Issachar, Ambri the son of Michael; ¹⁹ over Zabulon, Samaias the son of Abdiu; over Nephthaleim, Jerimoth the son of Oziel; ²⁰ over Ephraim, Ose the son of Oziu; over the half of the tribe of Manasses, Joel the son of Phadaia; ²¹ over the half of the tribe of Manasses in the land of Galaad, Jadai the son of Zadaiu; over the Benjaminites, Jasiel the son of Abenner; ²² over Dan, Azariel the son of Iroab. These were the rulers of the tribes of Israel.

⁴ And he built Thoedmor in the wilderness, and all those fortified cities which he built in Emath.

¹⁵ those daily allowances with which they who were before me had loaded them, and which they had exacted from them in bread and wine, to the amount at least of forty didrachms of silver. They indeed who had been displaced, tyrannised over the people; but as for me I did not do so; because I feared God.

²³ And having multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, thou broughtest them into the land which thou hadst promised their fathers; and they took possession of it.

² Passion indeed transporteth the foolish, and envy killeth the wanderer.

¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.

² When the wicked exulteth with pride, the poor is set on fire; they are caught by the counsels which they devise.

¹⁹ How great, Lord, is the abundance of thy kindness, which thou hast laid up in store for them who fear thee; hast provided for them who trust in thee before the sons of men.

³ Trust in the Lord and exercise kindness; dwell in the land and thou shalt be fed with the riches thereof.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. Happy he who is considerate with regard to the distressed and needy; in time of trouble the Lord will deliver him. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and make him happy in the land, and may he never deliver him into the hands of his enemy!

⁵ Because thou, O God, hast heard my prayer; hast given a possession to them who fear thy name;

¹³ Though you may have slept in kitchens; the wings of a dove covered with silver, while its back is spangled with yellow gold,

⁶ he removed his back from burdens. His hands served at the basket.

³ Against thy people they have taken crafty counsel. And consulted against thy holies. ⁴ Come, said they, let us cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more remembered.

⁹ moreover his salvation will be near them who fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

¹¹ For high as the heaven is from the earth; the Lord hath enlarged his mercy for them who fear him.

¹³ when they passed through from nation to nation; from one kingdom to another people;

²⁴ When he had encreased his people to a great degree, and made them stronger than their enemies;

²⁴ When he had encreased his people to a great degree, and made them stronger than their enemies; ²⁵ and had turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants;

²⁵ and had turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal deceitfully with his servants;

⁵ He hath given food to them that fear him: he will remember his covenant forever.

¹ A Song of the steps. Unless the Lord build the house, the builders have laboured in vain. Unless the Lord guard the city, in vain hath the watchman watched;

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb.

¹⁹ He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him: he will hear their prayer and save them.

¹¹ saying, Come with us; partake of blood; and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause,

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¹⁶ for they cannot sleep. Unless they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot lie down to rest.

¹³ The fear of the Lord hateth injustice and insolence and haughtiness and the ways of the wicked: and I have hated the crooked ways of bad men.

¹⁸ A wicked man doth works of injustice: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

²⁸ In the multitude of a nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of a people is the destruction of a prince.

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²⁵ There are ways which seem right to a man: but the latter ends of them look to the bottom of Hades.

¹⁷ He who is kind to the poor lendeth to God; and according to his gift he will repay him.

³⁰ There is no wisdom, there is no fortitude, no counsel in the wicked.

³ By wisdom a house is built; and by understanding it is established.

¹¹ Deliver them who are to be led away to death; and intercede for them who are to be slain, make no delay. ¹² If thou should say, I do not know this man: know that the Lord knoweth the hearts of all: and that he, who gave breath to all, knoweth all things: and will render to every one according to his works.

⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous: but nothing can withstand envy.

¹⁸ and I hated all this labour of mine for which I am toiling under the sun; because I must leave it to a man who is coming after me; ¹⁹ and who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? Now if he hath power over all my labour for which I have toiled and in which I have displayed wisdom under the sun; surely this is vanity.

⁴ In the review of labour in general, I took a view in particular of manly exertion in executing. Because this causeth a man to be envied by his neighbour, this therefore is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁴ as a king is absolute; and who can say to him, What dost thou?

¹² He who sinned continued thenceforward to do evil, even because of the forbearance shewn to them. Now as I know that it is good for them who fear God, that they should be awed by his presence;

¹⁵ but he happened to find in it a poor wise beggar, and this man by his wisdom saved the city; yet no man remembered the class of this poor beggar.

¹³ As a conclusion of the discourse, hear thou the whole sum and substance: Fear God and keep his commandments: for this conclusion every man should draw,

¹⁰ Alas for their souls! Because they have counselled an evil counsel against themselves, saying, "Let us bind the just one, for he is disagreeable to us;" let them therefore eat the fruits of their deeds.

⁶ He smote a nation in wrath with an incurable wound; he smote a nation with a vengeful wound which did not spare. The confidant is gone to rest;

²³ And I will put it into the hands of them, who have injured thee and oppressed thee; who have said to thy soul, Crouch down that we may walk over thee, when thou hadst bent thy body down level with the earth in the street, to them passing along.

⁵ Now therefore why are you here? Thus saith the Lord, Because my people were taken away for nought, [express your amaze; and raise the mournful cry! Thus saith the Lord, On your account my name is continually reviled among the nations.

⁶ It is not such a fast as this that I have chosen, saith the Lord. But loose every bond of iniquity; dissolve the obligations of onerous contracts; set at liberty them who are oppressed, and tear in pieces every unjust stipulation in writing:

² Go to the family of Archabin and thou shalt bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the courts, and give them wine to drink.

³³ Thus saith the Lord, The children of Israel and the children of Juda have both been oppressed; all who captivated them tyrannised over them. Because they refused to let them go; ³⁴ therefore their Redeemer; the Mighty One, whose name is The Lord Almighty will plead their cause with their adversaries. In order that he may remove this land out of the way he will sharpen for the inhabitants of Babylon

¹⁶ In reply to this, Sedrach, Misach, Abdenago said to the king Nabuchodonosar, We are at no loss to answer thee in respect to this matter. ¹⁷ For our God in heaven, whom we worship, is able to deliver us out of the furnace of fire which is heated, and he will deliver us, king, out of thy hands. ¹⁸ But even though he do not, be it known to thee, king, that we cannot serve thy gods, nor will we worship the image which thou hast set up.

¹³ Then they answered and said before the king, Daniel, who is one of the captives from Juda, hath not paid obedience to thy decree. For three times a day he maketh requests of his God.

¹¹ Ephraim tyrannised over his adversary, he trampled down judgment; because he set the example of going after vanities,

³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot:

¹⁶ As thou hast kept the statutes of Zambri, and all the works of the house of Achab; and you have walked in their ways, that I might deliver thee up to desolation, and the inhabitants of this city to hissing; therefore you shall bear the reproaches of peoples.

¹⁴ Draw thee water for a siege, and fortify thy bulwarks. Go down into the clay, and let him be trampled with straw. Make it harder than any brick.

²⁸ And be not afraid of them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

⁴² And whoever shall give any one of these little ones, were it only a cup of cold water to drink, on the account of his being a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir. Come let us kill him and keep possession of his inheritance.

⁴⁰ And the king in reply will say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as you have done this to one of these my brethren, even the least, you have done it to me.

⁵⁰ Indeed his mercy on them who fear him, extendeth to generations of generations.

⁵ but I will point out to you whom you should fear; Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. I repeat it to you, Fear him.

¹⁹ therefore the Pharisees said among themselves, You see that you gain no advantage. Behold the world is gone after him.

² displeased at their teaching the people and promulgating by Jesus the resurrection from the dead, came on them, ³ and laid hands on them, and put them in prison till the next day. For it was now evening. ⁴ But many of those who heard the word believed. And the number of the men became about five thousand.

¹⁸ So having called them in, they gave them this general charge, not to make solemn addresses, nor teach, for the name of that Jesus. ¹⁹ But Peter and John in reply to them, said, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye. ²⁰ For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

²⁸ saying, Did we not strictly charge you not to teach for this name"? Yet behold you have filled Jerusalem with this doctrine of yours and wish to bring that man's blood upon us. ²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men.

²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men. ³⁰ The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, having caused him to be suspended on a cross ³¹ even him, a chief leader and a Saviour, God hath exalted at his right hand to give repentance to Israel and a remission of sins. ³² And we are his witnesses of these things, as is also the Holy Spirit which God hath granted to them who obey him. ³³ At hearing this they were cut to the heart, and consulted to put them to death.

¹⁴ Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his kindred, amounting to threescore and fifteen souls. ¹⁵ So Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers, ¹⁶ and were conveyed to Sychem, and deposited in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmer the Sychemite. ¹⁷ And as the time approached for accomplishing the promise which God had made with an oath to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ until another king arose, who knew not Joseph.

¹⁸ until another king arose, who knew not Joseph. ¹⁹ This king, mischievously politic against our family, ill treated our fathers, causing their children to be ex posed that they might not be preserved alive.

³⁴ I have indeed seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them. Now therefore come, I will send thee to Egypt.

¹² And in the course of the day some of the Jews, having entered into a conspiracy, bound themselves by the solemn Anathema, saying they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

²⁸ And we know that all things are working together for good to them who love God"to them who according to a previous purpose are now actually called.

¹⁸ Whosoever you are, let no one deceive himself. If am one among you seemeth to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God: for it is written, He entangleth the wise in their craft." ²⁰ And again, "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain."

³ For we, even we ourselves were formerly foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy, objects of hatred, hating one another;

¹⁰ For God is not unjust to forget your work, and the labour of that love which you have shewn for his name, by the assistance which you have given and continue to give to the saints.

⁶ For whom the Lord loveth he reproveth, And chastiseth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷ If you endure correction God dealeth with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father doth not correct? ⁸ Now if you are without correction, of which all are partakers, you are indeed bastards and not sons. 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.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. ¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature.

¹⁵ This is not the wisdom which cometh down from above; but that which is of an earthly, sensual, and devilish nature. ¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad.

¹⁶ For where there is a zeal with strife, there will be confusion, and every thing which is bad. ¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. ¹⁸ And the fruit of this righteousness is peaceably sown by them who cultivate peace.

⁵ Do you think that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which dwelt in us excite desire to envy?

⁴ And I heard the number of them who were sealed: a hundred and forty four thousand were sealed of all the tribes of the children of Israel ⁵ Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand; ⁶ of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Nephthaleim were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand; ⁷ of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand; ⁸ of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand; of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

⁴ and his tail dragged the third part of the stars of heaven and threw them on the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was in labour, that when she brought forth he might devour her child.

⁴ And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood. ⁵ And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, O Lord, who art and who wast and who art to come, because thou hast passed these judgments. ⁶ Because they poured out the blood of thy saints and prophets, therefore thou hast given them blood to drink, for they deserve it.