Numbers 23 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams. ² And when Balak had done as Balaam had ordered him; and had offered a bull, and a ram, on each altar, ³ then Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on. If God appear to me by any occurrence, whatever he shall shew me I will tell thee. ⁴ So Balak stood by his sacrifice. And Balaam went to inquire of God: and as he was going straight forward, God appeared to Balaam: And Balaam said to him, I have prepared seven altars, and offered a young bull, and a ram, on each altar. ⁵ And God put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt say. ⁶ So he returned to Balak. Now he was standing by his whole burnt offerings, and all the princes of Moab with him; ⁷ And a spirit of God came upon Balaam, and he took up his parable, and said, I am called from Mesopotamia by Balak; By the king of Moab from the mountains of the east, Come, saith he, Curse Jacob for me, And, come, for me devote Israel. ⁸ How can I curse him, whom the Lord doth nut curse? Or how devote him whom God devoteth not? ⁹ For from the top of mountains I can see him; Even from hills I can observe him, Behold he shall dwell, as a people by themselves, And shall not be reckoned among the nations. ¹⁰ Who hath accurately scanned the seed of Jacob? Who can count the communities of Israel? May my soul depart among the souls of the righteous! And my offspring be as the seed of these! ¹¹ At this Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I sent for thee to curse my enemies, and behold thou hast pronounced a blessing. ¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Must I not be careful to speak what God hath put in my mouth? ¹³ Then Balak said to him, Come with me to yet another place, from which thou shalt not have a full view of them. Thou shalt see only a part of them, and not view them all; and curse them for me from that place. ¹⁴ So he took him to a watch tower of the field on the top of a craggy cliff, and built there seven altars. And when he had offered a bull, and a ram, on each altar, ¹⁵ Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on, to inquire of God. ¹⁶ And God met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. ¹⁷ So he returned to him. Now he was standing by his whole burnt offering, and all the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What hath the Lord spoken? ¹⁸ Whereupon he took up his parable, and said, Stand up Balak and hear; Listen attentively as a witness, thou son of Sepphor! ¹⁹ God is not like a man to be deceived; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it? ²⁰ Behold I am constrained to bless! Bless I will. Indeed I cannot avoid it. ²¹ There shall be no calamity in Jacob; Nor shall misery be seen in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; The glories of princes are among them. ²² The God who hath brought them out of Egypt, Is to them like the glory of a unicorn. ²³ For there is no augury used by Jacob; Nor divination among Israel. In due season it shall be told by Jacob, And to Israel, what God will execute. ²⁴ Behold the people will rouse like a young lion; And, like an old lion, exult with pride. They will not go to rest till they devour prey; Until they have drunk the blood of the slain. ²⁵ Upon this Balak said to Balaam, Thou shalt neither with curses, curse them for me; nor shalt thou with blessings bless them. ²⁶ In reply to which Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thee saying, Whatever God shall speak, that I must do. ²⁷ Then Balak said to Balaam, Come let me take thee to another place, that, if it please God, thou mayst curse them for me from it. ²⁸ So Balak took Balaam to the top of Phogor, which extendeth into the wilderness. ²⁹ And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams. ³⁰ And when Balak had done as Balaam ordered him, and had offered a bull, and a ram, on every altar,

²⁴ An altar of earth you shall make for me, and sacrifice thereon your whole burnt offerings and your offerings of thanksgiving, both your sheep and your young bulls in every place where I record my name.

¹ Thou shalt make also an Altar of incorruptible wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The Altar shall be square and the height of it shall be three cubits. ² And thou shalt make the horns at the four corners. The horns shall be a component part of it and thou shalt overlay them with brass. ³ And thou shalt make a border for the Altar. And its cover and its pans and its flesh hooks and its fire hearth and all its utensils thou shalt make of brass. ⁴ And thou shalt make for it a brass grate of net-work; and for the grate thou shalt make four rings of brass under the four sides; ⁵ and thou shalt put them under the grate of the altar below [now the grate must be half way up the height of the altar.] ⁶ And thou shalt make for the altar poles of incorruptible wood and overlay them with brass, ⁷ and thou shalt put the poles into the rings; and let the poles be along the sides of the altar in carrying it. ⁸ Hollow, and of boards thou shalt make it. According to what is shewn thee on this mount so shalt thou make it.

²⁹ And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams.

³² And on the seventh day, seven young bulls; two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish,

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold obedience is better than good sacrifice; and to hearken, is better than the fat of rams.

²² Such is Pharao king of Egypt to all who trust in him. As to thy telling me, We have relied on the Lord God; Is not this he, whose high places and whose altars Ezekias hath pulled down, saying to Juda and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

²⁶ And because God strengthened the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, therefore they sacrificed each seven bulls and seven rams.

²¹ and offered up seven young bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, seven kids of the goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the holies, and for Israel. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them upon the altar of the Lord.

⁸ Now therefore take seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he will make an offering for you; and my servant Job will pray for you. For him only I will accept; for were it not for his sake, I would destroy you, because you have not spoken what is true against my servant Job.

⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices. And as for thy whole burnt offerings which are continually before me, ⁹ I will not take young bulls from thy house, nor he goats from thy folds.

⁸ The sacrifices of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord; but the prayers of the upright are acceptable to him.

¹¹ "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" saith the Lord: I am cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats I have no delight; ¹² nor should you come to appear before me: for who hath required these at your hands? You shall no more be admitted to tread my court. ¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure: ¹⁴ your fasting and cessation from labour; and your new moons and your festivals my soul hateth. You are become loathsome to me; I will no longer remit your sins. ¹⁵ When you stretch forth your hands, I will turn mine eyes from you: and though you multiply prayer, I will not hearken to you: for your hands are full of blood.

³¹ They come to thee as people assemble; and they sit before thee and hear thy words, but will not do them, because there is a lie in their mouth, and their heart goeth after their pollutions;

²³ And during the seven days of the festival he shall offer as whole burnt offerings to the Lord, seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, every day during the seven days; and for a sin offering, a kid of the goats every day with a sacrifice.

¹³ Now alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against men. For you neither enter in yourselves, nor suffer them who are going in, to enter.

¹¹ Alas for them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and rambled in the error of Balaam's reward and perished in the rebellion of Kore.

¹⁴ So he took him to a watch tower of the field on the top of a craggy cliff, and built there seven altars. And when he had offered a bull, and a ram, on each altar,

³⁰ And when Balak had done as Balaam ordered him, and had offered a bull, and a ram, on every altar,

²⁰ And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all the cattle which are clean and of all the fowls which are clean, and offered them up upon the altar for a whole homage offering.

² And he said, Take thy son, thy dear son whom thou hast loved; Isaak; and go to the hilly country and offer him up there for a whole homage offering on one of the hills which I will point out to thee.

⁷ And Isaak said to his father Abraham, Father. And he said, What is the matter, son? And Isaak said, Here is the fire and the wood; where is the sheep for a whole homage offering? ⁸ And Abraham said, My son! God will provide for himself a sheep for a whole homage offering. So they both proceeded on together

¹³ Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and lo! a ram caught by the horns in a sabek bush. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for an homage offering instead of his son Isaak.

¹² Then Jothor the father in law of Moses took whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for God; and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread before God with Moses' father in law.

¹ Then the Lord called up Moses and spoke to him out of the tabernacle of the testimony saying,

⁸ he said to them, Tarry here this night, and I will give you an answer according to what the Lord shall say to me. So the chiefs of Moab tarried with Balaam. ⁹ And God came to Balaam, and said to him, What would these men with thee?

³¹ Then God opened the eyes of Balaam; and when he saw the angel of the Lord standing opposite, in the way, with a drawn sword in his hand, he bowed down, and fell flat on his face. ³² And the angel of God said to him, Why didst thou strike thy ass three times? Behold I came out to stop thee, because thy journey is not seemly in my sight, ³³ and the ass, seeing me, turned aside from me these three times. And had she not turned aside from me I should now have killed thee; but I would have preserved her alive. ³⁴ Then Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have sinned inadvertently; for I did not know that thou stoodest in the way against me. Now therefore, if it is not agreeable to thee, I will turn back. ³⁵ And the angel of God said to Balaam, Go with these men; but whatever word I speak to thee be careful to deliver that. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

¹⁵ Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on, to inquire of God.

¹ Balaam, seeing that it was good in the sight of the Lord to bless Israel, did not go, as was customary with him, to look for omens; but turned his face towards the wilderness.

⁹ And God came to Balaam, and said to him, What would these men with thee?

²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night, and said to him, If these men come to call thee, arise and go with them: but what I say to thee, that thou shalt do.

¹ Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams.

¹⁶ And God met Balaam and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul. ⁴ You fast for strife and debate; and smite the poor with your fists. Why fast ye for me as today that by a cry your voice may be heard?

¹² saying, These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden, and the heat of the day.

¹² I fast twice a week. I pay tithes of all that I possess.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God.

²⁷ Where then is this boasting? It is excluded. By what law? By that of works? No; but by a law of belief.

⁹ It is not because of works; so that no one can boast.

³⁵ And the angel of God said to Balaam, Go with these men; but whatever word I speak to thee be careful to deliver that. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

¹⁸ I will raise up for them, from among their brethren, a prophet like thee, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will speak to them as I command him:

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⁹ All the works of the Lord are with righteousness: but the wicked is kept for an evil day.

¹⁶ I will put my words in thy mouth, and cover thee under the shelter of my hand with which I made the heaven and founded the earth; and say to Sion, Thou art my people.

²¹ And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord, this spirit of mine which is upon thee, and these words which I have put in thy mouth shall not fail from thy mouth, nor from the mouth of thy seed, [for the Lord hath spoken] from this time forth forever.

⁹ Then the Lord stretched forth his hand towards me and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, Behold I have put my words in thy mouth.

¹² for the holy spirit will teach you that very instant, what you ought to say.

⁵¹ Now this he said not merely of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was soon to die for that nation,

²² The children of Sem were Elam and Assour and Arphaxad and Loud and Aram and Kainan.

² Arise and go to Mesopotamia and to the house of Bathuel thy mother's father, and take thence a wife for thyself of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

⁷ and that Jacob hearkened to his father and mother and was gone to Syrian Mesopotamia,

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.

¹¹ Behold there is a people come out of Egypt, who have covered the face of this land, and they are settled down near me; now therefore come and curse them for me; perhaps I may be able to smite them, and drive them out of this land.

¹⁷ for I will promote thee to great honour, and do for thee whatever thou sayest; therefore come, curse this people for me.

¹⁸ Whereupon he took up his parable, and said, Stand up Balak and hear; Listen attentively as a witness, thou son of Sepphor!

³ Balaam son of Beor saith; The man who seeth according to truth saith:

¹⁵ Then taking up his parable, he said, Balaam son of Beor saith; It is the saying of a man who is a true seer,

²¹ Then having taken a view of the Kenite, he took up his parable and said, Strong is thy dwelling place. But though thou hast built thy nest upon a rock;

²³ Then looking at Og he took up his parable and said, Oh! Who can live when God will order such things!

⁴ because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you were coming out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee, Balaam, son of Beor, of Mesopotamia, to curse thee;

¹⁰ Then the Philistine said, Behold I have now this day defied the army of Israel. Give me a man that we may fight at single combat.

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³⁶ Thy servant hath slain a lion and a bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them. Shall I not 2:0 and smite him, and remove, this day, a reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised, that he should defy the army of the living God?

⁴⁵ David said to the Philistine, Thou comest against me with a sword, and a spear, and a shield, but I am coming to thee with the name of the Lord God of Sabbaoth, of the army of Israel, which thou hast, this day, defied.

²¹ and defied Israel, but Jonathan son of Semei, David's brother, smote him.

⁹ And after him Eleanon [the son of a man who married his brother's wife to raise up seed for his brother] the son of Dudi, one of the three worthies with David. When he challenged the Philistines, and they had assembled for battle, and the men of Israel had gone up,

¹ Furthermore Job proceeded and by way of preface said,

¹ Job still further continued his speech, with this exordium:

² I will open my mouth with parables; I will utter dark sayings of old;

² As birds and ostriches fly away; so a vain curse will not light on any one.

² Son of man, relate a fable and speak a parable to the house of Israel

⁴⁹ And when I said, "O Lord, Lord, forbid" they said to me, Is not this a parable which is spoken?

⁴ a parable will in that day be taken up against you, and a song of lamentation will be sung, saying, "With affliction we have been afflicted! the portion of my people have been measured with a line, and there was none to hinder or turn it aside." Your fields have been parcelled out,

⁶ will they not all take up a parable against him and a fable to tell of him, saying, Woe to him who is heaping up for himself things which do not belong to him? For how long? And making his yoke grievously heavy.

³³ Another parable he stated to them, saying, The reign of the heavens is like leaven which a woman took and covered up in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

³⁵ so that there was a full accomplishment of that which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth with parables, I will utter things kept hid from the foundation of the world.

¹² Upon this they sought to lay hold of him, but were afraid of the people. For they knew that he had spoken the parable against them. So they left him and went away,

¹² Thereupon God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them, nor curse that people, for they are blessed.

²⁰ Behold I am constrained to bless! Bless I will. Indeed I cannot avoid it.

²³ For there is no augury used by Jacob; Nor divination among Israel. In due season it shall be told by Jacob, And to Israel, what God will execute.

²⁵ Who else can dispel from the heart the signs of belly speakers and divinations? I am he who turneth sages backwards and maketh their counsel foolish;

¹² Persist now in thine incantations and in thy manifold sorcery, which thou hast learned from thy youth: if thou canst be benefited by them. ¹³ Thou hast wearied thyself with thy counsels: let the astrologers now stand up and save thee; let them who gaze on the stars tell thee what is instantly coming upon thee.

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel.

¹⁶ for how can it be known for certain that I and this people have found favour in thy sight, but by thy going with us? Or I and this people be glorious above all that are on the earth?

⁸ When the Most High divided nations; When he dispersed the children of Adam, He settled the boundaries of nations, According to the number of God's messengers;

²⁸ And Israel shall dwell securely alone, In the land of Jacob, fed with corn and wine: And the heaven shall drop with dew for thee.

² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression.

⁸ he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered among the nations throughout thy whole kingdom, whose laws differ from all the nations. And as they disobey the king's laws and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone;

²⁸ Fear not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, since I am with thee. This fearless and luxurious one is delivered up, for I will make an end of every nation to which I have driven thee; But of thee I will not make an entire end. But I will correct thee for judgment and not suffer thee to go unpunished.

⁹ therefore I order, and I will scatter the house of Israel among all the nations, as if they were winnowed with a fan; and not a morsel of it shall fall on this land.

⁸ Now I say that, for the truth of God, Jesus Christ became the minister of circumcision, to confirm the promises made to the fathers; ⁹ and that the Gentiles are to glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "For this cause I will praise thee among the nations and sing to thy name." ¹⁰ And again it is said, "Rejoice, O nations, with his people."

¹⁷ therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you,

¹² that you were at that time without Christ; aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and being without God in the world: ¹³ but now by Christ Jesus, you, who were formerly far off, are brought near by the blood of the Christ; ¹⁴ for he is our peace. He it is, who hath made both one, and who hath demolished the partition wall,

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

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.

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;

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.

⁹ all those of the camp of Judas who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and eighty six thousand four hundred, with their army, shall march in the van.

¹⁶ All those of the camp of Reuben who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and fifty one thousand four hundred and fifty, with their army, shall march as the second division.

²⁴ All those of the camp of Ephraim who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and eight thousand one hundred, with their army, shall march as the third division.

³¹ All those of the camp of Dan, who have been reviewed, amounting to one hundred and fifty seven thousand six hundred, shall march as the rear division.

³⁷ Preserve innocence and eye rectitude; for there is a remnant for the man of peace.

¹⁵ At a high rate; in the sight of the Lord; is estimated the death of his saints.

³² A wicked man shall be driven away by his wickedness; but in his sanctity the righteous is secure.

¹ You see how a righteous one was destroyed, and no one layeth it to heart. And righteous men are taken away, and no one observeth, that on account of iniquity the righteous one was taken away. ² His sepulture shall be in peace. He is taken from among you.

²⁹ Now, O Lord, thou dismissest thy servant in peace according to thy word, ³⁰ since mine eyes have seen that salvation of thine,

²¹ So let no one boast in men; for all things .are yours: ²² whether Paul. or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours,

⁵³ For this corruptible must put on incorruptibility; and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ Now when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptibility; and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then will be brought to pass the word which is written, "Death is completely swallowed up." ⁵⁵ O death where is thy sting? Where thy victory, O grave? ⁵⁶ Sin is indeed the sting of death; And the law is the strength of sin: ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God who gives us the victory Through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ For we know that when the earthly house of this dwelling of ours is dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, everlasting in the heavens.

²¹ For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. ²² But whether the living in flesh is for me a fruit of labour, and what I should chuse, I do not know. ²³ For I am strained between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is by far the best;

⁶ For I am now about to be poured out as a libation; and the time of my departure is at hand. ⁷ I have maintained the good combat. I have finished the course; I have kept the faith. ⁸ As to what remaineth, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give me on that day, not only to me, but to all who have loved his glorious appearance.

¹³ Indeed I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by admonition; ¹⁴ as I know that I must soon lay aside this tabernacle of mine, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath plainly shewed me; ¹⁵ and I will use all diligence that you may be able, every one of you, to recollect these things after my departure.

¹³ Then I heard a voice from the heaven saying to me, "Write, Happy the dead who die in the Lord henceforth! Yes, verily saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labours and their works accompany them.

⁷ And a spirit of God came upon Balaam, and he took up his parable, and said, I am called from Mesopotamia by Balak; By the king of Moab from the mountains of the east, Come, saith he, Curse Jacob for me, And, come, for me devote Israel. ⁸ How can I curse him, whom the Lord doth nut curse? Or how devote him whom God devoteth not?

¹⁰ At this Balak was inflamed with wrath against Balaam, and clapped his hands. And Balak said to Balaam, I sent for thee to curse my enemy, and behold thou hast blessed them a third time.

² because they did not meet the Israelites with bread and water; but hired Balaam against them to curse them; but our God turned the curse into a blessing.

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, let it come on him: as he delighted not in blessing let it be far from him. ¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with a mantle; and it came like water in his bowels; and like oil into his bones: ¹⁹ let it be to him as the mantle which covereth him: and as the girdle with which he is continually girded." ²⁰ From the Lord is this work of them who traduce me: and of them who speak evil against my soul.

³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, Behold now I am come to thee, shall I be able to say any thing? Whatever word God shall put in my mouth; that I will speak.

²⁶ In reply to which Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thee saying, Whatever God shall speak, that I must do.

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord, to do either good or evil, of my own mere will. Whatever God may order that I will speak.

²⁵ Though an enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, believe him not: for in his heart there is seven fold wickedness.

¹⁸ For such men do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And by their fawning speeches and flattering forms of address, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

¹⁶ they make a profession of knowing God, but with their works they deny him; being abominable, and disobedient, and lost to every good work.

⁴¹ And early next morning Balak took Balaam, and led him up to the top of the pillar of Baal, and from it shewed him some part of the people.

⁹ And when Balak, son of Sepphor, king of Moab, arose and drew up in array against Israel, and sent for Balaam to curse us,

²³ As for the servants of the king of Syria they said, The God of Israel is a god of the mountains and not a god of the vallies; for this cause he prevailed over us. But if we fight them in the plain we shall surely be stronger than they.

²⁸ the man of God came and said to the king of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Because Syria hath said, The Lord God of Israel is a god of the mountains, but he is not a god of the vallies, therefore I will deliver this great army into thy hand, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

¹⁷ As he loved cursing, let it come on him: as he delighted not in blessing let it be far from him.

⁵ my people call now to remembrance what counsel Balak king of Moab took against thee; and what answer was made him by Balaam son of Beor, That from Schoinon the righteousness of the Lord may be made known to Galgal.

⁹ With it we bless our God and father; and with it we curse men, who are made after the image of God. ¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. These things, my brethren, ought not to be so.

²⁰ and from Bamoth to Nepe, which is in that plain of Moab bordering on the craggy cliff, namely, that which looketh towards the wilderness.

¹ Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven young bulls, and seven rams. ² And when Balak had done as Balaam had ordered him; and had offered a bull, and a ram, on each altar,

²⁷ Go up to the top of the craggy mountain, and raise thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and take a view of it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not cross this Jordan.

⁴⁹ comprehending all that part of Araba on the eastern bank of Jordan, below the cliff of Asedoth.

¹ Then Moses went up from Araboth Moab to mount Nabo, to the top of Phasga, which is over against Jericho, and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad, even to Dan,

¹⁰ Hear a word of the Lord, chiefs of Sodom! Attend to the law of God, ye people of Gomorra! ¹¹ "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" saith the Lord: I am cloyed with whole burnt offerings of rams: in the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and goats I have no delight;

⁶ Collecting gold from a bag, and silver by weight they will put it in a balance; and having hired a goldsmith they made handiworks and bowing themselves down they will worship them.

¹¹ was it only because of Galaad? There were liars indeed at Galaad; chiefs sacrificing; but their altars were like heaps in an uncultivated field.

⁸ he said to them, Tarry here this night, and I will give you an answer according to what the Lord shall say to me. So the chiefs of Moab tarried with Balaam.

³ then Balaam said to Balak, Stand by thy sacrifice, and I will advance on. If God appear to me by any occurrence, whatever he shall shew me I will tell thee.

⁵ And God put a word in the mouth of Balaam, and said, Return to Balak, and thus thou shalt say.

¹⁷ And he said, What was the word spoken to thee? Hide it not from me, I pray thee. God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me, of all that was spoken to thee in thy hearing.

¹⁷ And the king asked him privately to tell him whether there was a message from the Lord. And Jeremias said, There is. Thou shalt be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

²⁰ And when he had sent away from him all his attendants, Aod went in to him. Now he was sitting alone in his summer parlour, up stairs. And Aod said, I have a message of God to thee, O king. Upon which Eglon arose from his seat, near him.

²⁹ and Israel shall be rent in twain. He will not change, nor alter his mind, for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.

¹⁷ Though these were very small before thee, my God, yet thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast looked upon me as with the eyes of a man, and exalted me. Lord my God,

³⁵ Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; that I will not be false to David.

⁹ I will not act according to the fierceness of mine indignation, I will not give up Ephraim to utter destruction. For I am God and am not man; The Holy One in the midst of thee. [p] Am I then not to enter a city?

²⁰ All our sins he will give up for truth to Jacob, as an act of mercy to Abraham as he sware to our fathers, according to the days which have been heretofore.

³ for the vision is for a time yet to come. But it will spring up at last and will not be vain. Though he may tarry, wait for him; for he will assuredly come and will not fail.

⁶ Because I the Lord am your God and change not;

³³ The heaven and the earth will pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

²⁹ For the favours and choice of God are not reversed.

² in hope of an everlasting life, which the God of truth promised before the times consisting of ages,

¹⁸ that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to deceive, there might be strong consolation for us who have fled to take hold of this proffered hope,

¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

¹⁸ In reply to which Balaam said to the princes of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord God, to do any thing, small or great, of my own mere will.

¹³ from the beginning; and there is none who can rescue out of my hands. I will act; and who can prevent it;

²⁷ My sheep, as I told you, hearken to my voice and I know them, and they follow me: ²⁸ and I give them everlasting life; and they shall never perish, nor shall any one wrest them out of my hand. ²⁹ My father who gave them to me, is greater than all, and none is able to wrest them out of my father's hand.

³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created being shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

⁵ who are, during belief, kept safely by the power of God, for a deliverance prepared to be revealed in the last time;

²¹ And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.

⁴⁵ and I will be invoked by the children of Israel and will be their God. ⁴⁶ And they shall know that I am the Lord their God who brought them out of Egypt to be invoked by them and to be their God.

¹⁴ And he said, Must I myself go before thee and give thee rest? ¹⁵ To which Moses replied, Unless thou thyself accompany us, take me not away from this place: ¹⁶ for how can it be known for certain that I and this people have found favour in thy sight, but by thy going with us? Or I and this people be glorious above all that are on the earth?

⁹ and said, If I have found favour in thy sight; let my Lord go with us: for this people is stiff necked, and thou wilt take away our sins and our iniquities and we shall be for thee.

⁵ Let Him therefore be chief among the beloved. When the chiefs of peoples assemble with the tribes of Israel,

¹³ is with thee" the Mighty Lord of Hosts. Whereupon Gideon said to him, With me, my lord! But if the Lord is with us, why have these evils befallen us? And where are all his wondrous works, of which our fathers have told us, saying, Hath not the Lord brought us up out of Egypt? But he hath now cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Madiam.

¹² Now behold with us, at our head, is the Lord and his priests, and the trumpets of alarm to sound a charge against you. sons of Israel, fight not against the Lord God of your fathers, for it will not prosper with you.

⁴ For though I walk amidst the shades of death: I will fear no ills, because thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff have been my comfort.

² Happy the man, to whose account the Lord will not charge sin, and in whose mouth there is no guile.

⁵ I acknowledged my sin and did not conceal mine iniquity. I said, Against myself I will confess mine iniquity to the Lord, thereupon thou didst forgive the wickedness of my heart.

⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; our helper is the God of Jacob.

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us, our helper is the God of Jacob.

⁵ God ascended at the triumphant shout; the Lord, at the trumpet's sounding. ⁶ O sing praises to our God; sing praises. Sing praises to our king; sing praises. ⁷ Since God is king of the whole earth; sing praises with understanding.

¹⁵ Happy the people who know the joyful sound! They will walk, Lord, in the light of thy presence, ¹⁶ and rejoice in thy name all the day long, and be exalted by thy righteousness. ¹⁷ For thou art the glory of their strength; and by thy favour our horn shall be exalted. ¹⁸ For thou art the help of our Lord even of the Holy One of Israel, our king.

¹ By David, when his land was at peace. The Lord is king; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad.

¹² Far as the east is distant from the west, he hath removed from us our transgressions.

¹⁵ A sound of joy and deliverance in the tents of the righteous! The right hand of the Lord hath exerted power!

¹⁸ then come: [let our controversy be brought to issue, saith the Lord] and though your sins be as a purple stain; I will make you white as snow; though they be as a stain of scarlet; I will make you white as wool.

¹⁰ and what counsel soever you may take, the Lord will defeat it; and what word soever you may speak shall not take effect among you; because God is with us:

⁶ Shout for joy and be glad, inhabitants of Sion, for in the midst of it is exalted the Holy One of Israel.

²² for my God is great and will not pass me by. The Lord our judge; the Lord our chief; the Lord our king; the Lord will himself save us.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand.

²⁰ In those days and at that time, search shall be made for the iniquity of Israel; but none shall remain: and for the sins of Juda; but none shall be found. For I will be merciful to them who are left.

³⁵ The circumference eighteen thousand. And the name of the city from the day it is built shall be the name it now hath.

² take words with you and return to the Lord your God, and, that you may not receive the punishment of iniquity but may receive good things, say to him, "We will render to thee the fruit of our lips. ³ Assur cannot save us. We will no more mount horses; we will no more say to the works of our hand, "You are our gods." He who is in thee will compassionate the fatherless. ⁴ [J] I will heal their habitations. I will undoubtedly love them. Because he hath turned away my wrath from him,

¹⁸ Who is a God like unto thee, taking away iniquities, and passing by the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage? He hath not kept his anger in remembrance; because he delighteth in mercy; ¹⁹ he will turn and have compassion on us: he will bury deep our iniquities: they shall be whelmed in the depths of the sea. ²⁰ All our sins he will give up for truth to Jacob, as an act of mercy to Abraham as he sware to our fathers, according to the days which have been heretofore.

²³ "The virgin shall conceive and bear a son and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel," the meaning of which is, God with us:

³⁷ And as he was drawing near, just at the descent of the mount of olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to express their joy in loud acclamations, praising God for all the miracles which they had seen, ³⁸ saying, Blessed be the king who is coming in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!

⁷ "Happy they whose iniquities are forgiven; And whose sins are covered: ⁸ Happy the man to whose account the Lord will not charge sin."

¹⁴ For sin is not to have dominion over you, as you are not under the law, but under favour.

¹ There is then no condemnation now to them who are in Christ Jesus and who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

¹⁴ But thanks be to God who causeth us always to triumph in the Christ, and who manifesteth by us, in every place, the odour of the knowledge of him.

¹⁹ So because God was in Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their transgressions, and hath committed to us the word of this reconciliation,

¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, "Because I will dwell among them and walk about among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people;

¹⁶ but thou hast been preserved for this purpose that by thee I might display my power and that my name may be celebrated throughout all the earth.

¹⁸ And all the Egyptians shall know, that I am the Lord when I make myself glorious by Pharao and by his chariots and his horses.

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

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.

⁸ God hath led him out of Egypt; His glory is like that of the unicorn; He will eat up the nations of his enemies; And he will exhaust their fatness, And pierce his enemy with his darts.

¹⁷ His beauty is that of a firstling bull, His horns are the horns of an Unicorn, With these he will push the nations at once, Even from the limits of the land. These are the myriads of Ephraim; And these the thousands of Manasses.

⁹ Will the unicorn condescend to serve thee, or to go to rest at thy stall? ¹⁰ Canst thou bind his yoke with thongs, or will he draw thy furrows in the field? ¹¹ Hast thou relied on him because his strength is great?

²¹ Save me from the mouth of a lion, and this lowliness of mine from the unicorn's horns.

³⁵ God is awful among his saints: he is the God of Israel. He will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be our God!

¹⁰ But my horn shall be exalted like that of the Oryx; and mine old age invigorated with fresh oil.

¹⁵ And I will put enmity between thee and the woman; and between thy seed and her seed. He will wound thy head, and thou wilt wound his heel."

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. ⁷ So the ambassadors of Moab, and the ambassadors of Madiam, went with the rewards of divination in their hands, and when they came to Balaam, and rehearsed to him the words of Balak,

²² Balaam son of Beor the prophet.

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.

¹ For the conclusion. For the sons of Kore. A Psalm for Understanding. O God, we have heard with our ears: our fathers have told us the work which thou didst in the days of old. ² When thy hand had extirpated nations, thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict nations and drive them out. ³ For they took not possession of the land with their own sword: nor was it their own arm that saved them: but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou tookest pleasure in them.

⁹ Then every man was afraid. Then they rehearsed the works of God; then they understood his doings.

² Then was our mouth filled with joy, and our tongue with exultation; then did they say among the nations, "The Lord hath done great things for them." ³ The Lord hath done great things for us; we are transported with rapturous joy.

¹³ to him who divided the Red sea into parts; for his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁴ And led Israel through the midst thereof: for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁵ but shook off Pharao and his hosts into the Red sea; for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁶ to him, who led his people through the desert; for his mercy endureth forever; ¹⁷ to him who smote great kings; for his mercy endureth forever: ¹⁸ and slew kings of mighty power: for his mercy endureth forever; ¹⁹ Seon king of the Amorites; for his mercy endureth forever; ²⁰ And Og the king of Basan; for his mercy endureth forever:

⁴ Who hath performed and done these things? He who called that righteousness; who from the generations of the beginning is calling it I God the First, and to the succeeding ages, THE I AM.

⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old. ¹⁰ But they rebelled and provoked his holy spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against them; ¹¹ though he remembered the days of old. O! where is he who caused the shepherd of his flock to come up out of the sea? Where is he, who put his holy spirit in them? ¹² That glorious arm of his which led Moses by the right hand? He forced back the water from before him, to make himself an everlasting name.

¹⁵ Now, Lord our God, who broughtest thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and who hast made thyself a great name as at this day; we have sinned, we have committed iniquity.

⁴ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses and Aaron and Mariam. ⁵ my people call now to remembrance what counsel Balak king of Moab took against thee; and what answer was made him by Balaam son of Beor, That from Schoinon the righteousness of the Lord may be made known to Galgal.

¹⁵ And as in the days of thy coming out of Egypt, you shall see wonderful things.

²⁵ Thereupon Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And no city or family divided against itself can subsist.

²⁷ Besides if I expel demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons expel them? Let them therefore be your judges.

¹⁸ Now I say to thee, Thou art named Peter, [a rock,] and upon this very rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

¹⁸ he said to them, I beheld Satan falling like lightning from heaven: ¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you.

⁴⁷ Whereupon the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? Because this man doth many miracles,

¹⁶ saying, What can we do with these men? For that a signal miracle hath indeed been done by them, is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

¹² and by the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people: Now they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch,

¹⁴ and believers in the Lord, multitudes both of men and women were more and more added

³⁸ how God anointed him with a holy spirit and power. Him who went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil; for God was with him,

¹² Upon this the multitude were silent and heard Barnabas and Paul, relating all the signs and wonders which God hath done among the Gentiles by them.

²⁰ And the God of peace will soon bruise satan under your feet. The favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

²³ who had only heard that he who formerly persecuted us is now proclaiming the glad tidings of that belief which he was formerly destroying, ²⁴ and they glorified God on my account.

⁸ For from you the word of the Lord hath been sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia; but, in every place, your belief in God is spread to such a degree, as rendereth it unnecessary for us to say any thing. ⁹ For they themselves relate concerning us what an entrance we had among you; and how you turned to God from the idols, to serve the living and true God,

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent who is called The Devil and Satan who leadeth the whole world astray. He was thrown on the earth and his angels were thrown with him.

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!

²⁷ Benjamin is a ravening wolf. In the morning he is still eating, and for the evening he provideth food.

⁸ God hath led him out of Egypt; His glory is like that of the unicorn; He will eat up the nations of his enemies; And he will exhaust their fatness, And pierce his enemy with his darts. ⁹ Couching down, he is gone to rest, like a lion; Yes like a young lion; who dare rouse him? Blessed are they who bless thee, And they who curse thee are already cursed.

¹⁷ I can point to him, though he is not now; I hail him happy tho" he is not near. A star will arise out of Jacob; There shall rise up a man out of Israel, And he will smite the princes of Moab, And plunder all the sons of Seth:

²⁰ And of Gad he said Blessed is he who enlargeth Gad. Like a lion he lay down to rest, Having broken an arm and a chief.

¹² They observed me, like a lion eager for prey, and like a young lion lurking in coverts.

³⁰ a young lion the strongest of beasts which turneth not aside nor feareth any beast;

⁴ Because the Lord hath thus said to me, "As the lion or the young lion will roar over the prey which he hath taken; and will repeat his roaring over it, until the mountains are filled with his voice, and the multitude are subdued and terrified at his wrath: so will the Lord of Hosts descend to encamp on this mountain; on this Sion; on the summits thereof:

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and this kingdom of his shall not be left to another people. It shall break in pieces, and blow away all those kingdoms and shall itself stand forever.

⁸ shall a lion roar and none be struck with dread? Hath the Lord spoken and will none prophesy?

⁸ the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among beasts of the forest, and like a young lion among flocks of sheep; so that when he passeth through and hath made a choice, he may tear and there shall be none to deliver. ⁹ Thy hand shall be raised up against them who afflict thee; and all thine enemies shall be utterly cut off.

¹¹ where is the habitation of the lions, and the feeding places of the young lions? Where had the old lions gone, that a young lion entered and there was none to scare him?

⁴ When from him he hath looked, and from him drawn up in array; then from him shall issue forth the wrathful bow, from him every one who sallieth out at the same time. ⁵ And they shall be like warriors trampling dirt in the highways, and shall be drawn up in array for battle. Because the Lord is with them, therefore the riders on horses shall be put to shame.

⁶ In that day I will make Juda's captains of thousands like a firebrand among wood, and like a flaming torch among stubble. And they shall devour on the right and on the left all the peoples around. And Jerusalem shall again dwell by herself in Jerusalem.

⁵ one of the elders saith to me, "weep not; behold! the lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the volume and to loose the seven seals thereof."

¹¹ Then I saw the heaven opened and behold a white horse I and he who was mounted on him was called; Faithful And True, and with righteousness he judgeth and maketh war. ¹² His eyes are like a flame of fire; and on his head are many crowns and he hath a name written which no one but himself knoweth; ¹³ and he was clothed with a mantle dipped in blood; and his name is The Word or God. ¹⁴ And the armies in heaven clad in cotton robes white and clean followed him on white horses. ¹⁵ And out of his mouth issueth a sharp sword that with it he may smite the nations. And he himself tendeth them with an iron crook; and he himself treadeth the press of the venemous and raging wine of God Almighty. ¹⁶ And he hath on his mantle and on his thigh this name written King Of Kings And Lord Of Lords. ¹⁷ And I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice to all the birds which fly in mid-heaven saying, Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of them mounted on them and the flesh of all both freemen and slaves, both small and great. ¹⁹ And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to come to a battle with him who was mounted on the horse and with his army. ²⁰ And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who did these signs before him by which he led astray them who had received the mark of the beast, and them who worshipped his image. Both these were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone; ²¹ and the rest were slain with the sword of him who was mounted on the horse; with that which issueth out of his mouth; and all the birds were glutted with their flesh.

¹ Why did nations rage? And tribes meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth combined; and the chiefs assembled together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, [saying] ³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke."

¹² And Balaam said to Balak, Must I not be careful to speak what God hath put in my mouth? ¹³ Then Balak said to him, Come with me to yet another place, from which thou shalt not have a full view of them. Thou shalt see only a part of them, and not view them all; and curse them for me from that place.

¹² Whereupon Balaam said to Balak, Did I not tell thy messengers whom thou sentest to me, ¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot transgress the word of the Lord, to do either good or evil, of my own mere will. Whatever God may order that I will speak.

¹⁴ To which Michaias replied, As the Lord liveth, whatever the Lord shall say to me, that will I speak.

¹³ To whom Michaias replied, As the Lord liveth, whatever God shall say to me, that I will speak.

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.

²⁹ In reply to which Peter and the apostles said, We must obey God rather than men.

¹³ Then Balak said to him, Come with me to yet another place, from which thou shalt not have a full view of them. Thou shalt see only a part of them, and not view them all; and curse them for me from that place.

¹⁹ God is not like a man to be deceived; Nor like a son of man to be threatened. When he hath spoken, will he not perform? When he shall speak, will he not stand to it? ²⁰ Behold I am constrained to bless! Bless I will. Indeed I cannot avoid it.

¹³ But if he hath judged thus, who can gainsay him? For he hath done what was his pleasure.

²¹ There are many thoughts in a man's heart; but the counsel of the Lord shall endure forever.

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

²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside?

¹⁰ who can declare events before they happen, as if they were already accomplished. When I have spoken, all my counsel shall stand; and all that I have determined, I will effect. ¹¹ Calling from the east a winged fowl, even from a far distant land, for purposes which I have resolved on, I have spoken and brought, I have created and made, I have brought it and made its way prosperous.

²⁸ When they consecrated themselves to Belphegor; and ate the sacrifices offered to dead men;