Genesis 37 Cross References - VIN

¹ Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan. ² These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, came tending the flock with his brothers. And he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them. ³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours. ⁴ When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him. ⁵ Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. ⁶ He said: "Please listen to the dream I had. ⁷ for look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and look, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf." ⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you really rule over us? And they hated him still more because of his dreams, and because of his words. ⁹ Joseph had another dream and told his brothers: "I had another dream, in which I saw the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowing down to me." ¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?" ¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. ¹² And his brothers went to feed their father’s flocks in Shechem. ¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here I am. ¹⁴ Then he said to him, "Go now, see if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock, then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem. ¹⁵ And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for? ¹⁶ He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock." ¹⁷ The man said, “They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'” Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan. ¹⁸ And they saw him from a distance. And before he came near to them, they plotted against him, to kill him. ¹⁹ They said one to another, "Look, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ And now go, and we will kill him and fling him into one of the cisterns and say, `An evil animal devoured him,' and see will we what will become of his dreams. ²¹ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said. ²² And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father. ²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers they stripped him of the variegated robe which he had on ²⁴ and they took him and cast him into the cistern; and the pit was empty, there was no water in it. ²⁵ As they sat down to eat, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying the materials for cosmetics, medicine, and embalming. They were on their way to take them to Egypt. ²⁶ Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ "Let us sell him to the Ishmaelites. Let us not hurt him, because he is our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed. ²⁸ Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt. ²⁹ Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes. ³⁰ He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do? ³¹ Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. ³² They took the robe to their father and said: "We found this. Does it belong to your son?" ³³ He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces." ³⁴ Then Jacob rent his cloaths and put on sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to the grave to my son mourning. And his father wept for him ³⁶ (37:35) And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Potiphar, Pharaoh's eunuch, the captain of the guard.

⁸ "The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God."

⁴ I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

⁴ "He will bless you and your descendants as he blessed Abraham. You may take possession of this land, in which you have lived and which God gave to Abraham!"

⁷ For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

⁹ By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the opportune age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised. ¹² And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore. ¹³ All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ Those who say such things show that they are seeking a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.

⁴ ¶ These are the origins of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens

¹ This is the written genealogy of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

⁹ This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God.

¹ This is the genealogy of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, Noah's sons, who also had sons after the flood.

⁴ So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

⁹ When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife.

²² While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons.

²⁵ The sons of Rachel's slave Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali. ²⁶ The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram.

²² Now Eli was very old, and he had heard everything that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women serving at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. ²³ And he said unto them, Why do ye do such things? For I hear from all the people of your evil dealings. ²⁴ No my sons, it is no good report that I hear; you make the LORD's people disobey.

⁷ the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its deeds are evil.

¹¹ My brothers, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

¹ It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: a man has his father's wife.

¹⁸ For, in the first place, I hear that when you assemble as a church there are parties among you, and to some extent I believe it.

²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers they stripped him of the variegated robe which he had on

³² They took the robe to their father and said: "We found this. Does it belong to your son?"

²⁰ "We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.' ²¹ Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.' ²² And we said to my lord, This son cannot leave his father; for if he were to leave him, his father would die. ²³ But you said to your servants, Except your younger brother come down with you, you shall not see my face again. ²⁴ When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ And our father said, Go back and buy us a little food. ²⁶ But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man`s face unless our youngest brother is with us. ²⁷ Your servant, my father, said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons: ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since: ²⁹ And if you take this one also from my face, and harm happen to him, you will bring my gray hair to the grave in sorrow. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life;

³⁰ 'Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? A bedmate or two bedmates for every man; colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments, beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?'

¹⁸ The servant forced her to leave. He locked the door behind her. The king’s unmarried daughters used to wear long robes with sleeves.

¹³ All glorious is the king`s daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold: ¹⁴ In embroidered garments she is presented to the king. Her virgin companions who follow her train will be presented to you.

¹⁶ "'You took some of your clothes and made your worship sites colorful. This is where you acted like a prostitute. Such things should not happen. They should not occur.

³⁵ The Father loves the Son and has put everything in his hands.

²² The disciples looked at each other, at a loss to know which of them he meant. ²³ One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining against Jesus' chest.

⁵ but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell.

⁴¹ So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: "The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

⁵ Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

¹¹ And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

¹⁸ And they saw him from a distance. And before he came near to them, they plotted against him, to kill him. ¹⁹ They said one to another, "Look, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ And now go, and we will kill him and fling him into one of the cisterns and say, `An evil animal devoured him,' and see will we what will become of his dreams. ²¹ Reuben heard this and tried to protect Joseph from them. »Let us not kill him,« he said. ²² And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father. ²³ So when Joseph came to his brothers they stripped him of the variegated robe which he had on ²⁴ and they took him and cast him into the cistern; and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

²³ The archers have fiercely attacked him, and shot at him, and hated him:

¹² He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with a beautiful face and handsome appearance. the LORD said, Arise, anoint him, for this is the one. ¹³ Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.

²⁸ Eliab his oldest brother heard him talking to the men. Eliab was angry with David and said, "Why did you come down here? And who did you leave those few sheep with in the wilderness? I know your insolence and wicked intentions. You came down just to see the battle!"

¹⁹ But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

⁴ Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. My persecutors are mighty, and they want to destroy me. Must I be forced to return what I did not steal?

³ So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing. ⁴ For no one who wants to be known publicly acts in secret. Since You are doing these things, show Yourself to the world.” ⁵ For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

¹⁸ If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me first, ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

³ For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

¹¹ But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁰ In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; for every one who does not work righteousness is not a child of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

¹² and not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

¹² He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

⁴ When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him.

⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us, or shall you really rule over us? And they hated him still more because of his dreams, and because of his words.

⁵ And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation.

¹ Two years later Pharaoh had a dream. He dreamed he was standing by the Nile River.

⁹ And Joseph remembered his dream, which he saw; and he said to them, You are spies! You have come to see the exposed parts of the land!

⁶ He said: "Listen to my words: 'When there are prophets of the LORD among you, I make myself known to them in visions or speak to them in dreams.

¹³ When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling a friend about a dream. He was saying: "I dreamed that a loaf of barley bread rolled into our camp and hit a tent. The tent collapsed and lay flat on the ground." ¹⁴ His friend answered him and said, "This cannot be anything except the sword of Gideon son of Jehoash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand."

⁵ The LORD appeared to Solomon one night in a dream and told him, "Ask me for whatever you want and I'll give it to you."

¹⁴ The Lord is the strength of them who fear him; and it is his covenant to display it for them.

¹ In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.

⁵ I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts on my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

²⁸ “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

⁷ "The Sovereign LORD will do nothing without revealing his secrets to his servants the prophets.

¹⁴ I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

¹⁸ And Judah drew near him, and said, I pray, Sir, let your servant speak a word before you, and be not angry with your servant, for you are next to Pharaoh.

⁷ When they told Jotham he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, Listen to me, you men of Shechem, so that God will listen to you.

⁶ Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

²⁶ And when Joseph came into the house they brought the gift that was in their hand into the house to him, and they bowed down before him to the ground.

¹⁴ Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.

¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; so that in all things he might have the pre-eminence.

²⁶ »The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest mountains and the riches of the ancient hills. May these blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the prince among his brothers.

¹⁴ The man replied: "Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Moses was afraid and said: "Surely the matter has become known."

²⁷ But the sons of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him and brought him no present. But he was silent.

³ "Let us break their bands asunder and throw off from us their yoke." ⁴ The One who dwells in heaven laughs. the LORD scoffs at them. ⁵ Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his rage (fury). He says: ⁶ "But I myself have installed my king on Zion, my holy hill."

²² The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

¹⁴ But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’

¹⁷ But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’ ?

²⁷ For in truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, ²⁸ They carried out what Your hand and purpose had decided beforehand would happen.

³⁵ This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one God sent to be their ruler and redeemer, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

²⁹ How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

⁷ for look, we were binding sheaves in the field, and look, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and look, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

¹⁰ And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?"

²⁵ Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

³² "The reason Pharaoh has had a recurring dream is because the matter has been definitely decided by God. He will do it very soon.

²⁸ They answered: "Your servant our father is still alive and well." Again they bowed down to Joseph.

⁹ Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

²⁹ Joseph got in his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father. When they met, Joseph threw his arms around his father's neck and cried for a long time.

¹² Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

¹⁵ And Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead. And they said, What if Joseph should bear a grudge against us and should surely repay us all the evil which we did to him? ¹⁶ So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying, ¹⁷ Thus shall you say to Joseph. Forgive them their iniquity and their sin for having done thee evil. Now therefore forgive the iniquity of the servants of the God of thy father. And while they were speaking to him, Joseph wept. ¹⁸ Then his brothers also came and immediately bowed down in front of him. "We are your slaves!" they said. ¹⁹ Joseph said to them, Don't be afraid, for am I in the place of God? ²⁰ Ye thought evil unto me: but God turned it unto good to bring to pass, as it is this day, even to save much people alive. ²¹ So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.

¹⁰ and it greatens to the host of the heavens; and it fells some of the host and of the stars to the earth, and tramples them.

⁹ Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him ¹⁰ and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household. ¹¹ And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food. ¹² When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit. ¹³ On their second visit, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Pharaoh learned of Joseph's parentage. ¹⁴ Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob, and for all his family, seventy-five in all.

¹⁵ so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

²⁹ Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you."

¹⁴ "The sons of those who oppress you will bow in front of you. All who loathe you will bow at your feet. They will call you the city of the LORD, Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

³¹ And he said, Come in, blessed of the LORD! Why are you standing outside? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.

¹⁴ He possessed flocks and herds and a great household. The Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ and all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us."

¹⁶ yet they provoked Moses in the camp and Aaron the consecrated of the Lord.

⁴ And I saw all labor, and all the diligent work, that this is a man's envy from his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

¹³ Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart. Those who harass Judah will be destroyed. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.

¹¹ O LORD, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame. Let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.

²⁸ Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. I kept the matter to myself."

¹⁸ For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over.

¹⁰ For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.

¹⁹ But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

⁵¹ Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was subject to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

⁹ Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

⁴⁵ But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

²¹ and envy; drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. ¹⁶ For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

⁵ Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?

¹⁸ Jacob traveled safely from Paddan-aram to the city of Shechem in Canaan. He camped within sight of the city.

²⁵ It happened on the third day, when they were sore, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword. And they took Dinah from the house of Shechem, and left. ²⁷ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain. They plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled. ²⁸ they take their flocks and their oxen and their he burros and that in the city and that in the field ²⁹ And they took all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives, and looted all that was in the house. ³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: "You have brought trouble on me by making me loathsome to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Per'izzites. My numbers are few. If they gather themselves against me and attack my household I will be destroyed." ³¹ But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

¹ Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

¹ After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

¹ When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

¹⁸ He went to his father and said: "Father?" "Yes," he answered. "Who are you, Son?"

⁴ that the LORD called, "Samuel. Samuel." And he said, "Here I am." ⁵ And he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." But he said, "I did not call you. Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down. ⁶ And the LORD called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." And he said, "I did not call you, my son. Go back and lie down."

⁸ Again the LORD called Samuel a third time, so he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." Then Eli realized that the LORD was calling the boy.

¹⁶ Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." And he answered, "Here I am."

¹⁷ Jesse told his son David: "Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away. ¹⁸ and take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. See how your brothers are doing and bring back news. ¹⁹ Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines. ²⁰ David got up early in the morning, left the sheep with a keeper, took the supplies, and went as Jesse had directed him. He arrived at the encampment as the army was going out to the battle line, shouting the battle cry.

¹⁶ Look, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

¹³ Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: ³ “that it may go well with you and that you may be long-lived on the earth.”

¹⁸ Abram moved his tents and went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron. He built an altar to the LORD there.

² Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

⁶ And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

¹⁶ And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace without me."

²² They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

¹³ Joshua blessed Caleb the son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron for an inheritance.

¹⁵ Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

¹⁷ Jesse told his son David: "Take this half-bushel of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread to your brothers. Take them to your brothers in the camp right away. ¹⁸ and take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand. See how your brothers are doing and bring back news.

³² The king said to the Cushite, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like the young man!"

³³ So shall their blood return on the head of Joab, and on the head of his descendants forever. But to David, and to his descendants, and to his house, and to his throne, there shall be peace forever from the LORD."

⁵ And those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

⁷ And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be exiled, and pray to the LORD for it. For in its peace you shall have peace.

⁴² and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.

²² behold Barak came in pursuit of Sisara. And Jael went out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. So he went in with her, and behold Sisara lay dead with the pin in his temples.

¹⁹ Then Elisha told the army, "This isn't the way, and this isn't the city! Follow me, and I'll bring you to the man you're seeking. Then he led them to Samaria.

³⁸ Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

²⁷ At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?'

⁴ Jesus, knowing everything that was to happen, went out and said to them. Whom do you want?

⁷ Again he asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth."

¹⁵ Jesus asked her, "Dear lady, why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" Thinking he was the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him away."

⁷ Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; for why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?

¹⁰ For the Son of Man came, to seek and to save what was lost.

¹³ "Locate him!" the king ordered, "and I will capture him. He was told: "Elisha is in Dothan."

¹ Saul told Jonathan his son and all his servants to kill David. But Jonathan was very fond of David.

¹³ I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

¹² The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

³² The wicked looketh out for the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

²¹ They gather together against the righteous, condemning the innocent to death.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.

⁴ In return for my love they accuse me, though I am in prayer.

³⁸ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance!’

¹ Now early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to have him put to death.

⁷ But those tenants said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.'

¹ Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a covert way to arrest Jesus and kill Him.

¹⁴ But when the laborers saw him, they reasoned with themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. ¹⁵ So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

⁵³ So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

¹² When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

²⁰ Now I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hands.

² Saul went to the desert of Ziph. He took three thousand of Israel's best-trained men to search for David.

²⁴ When he had gone, a lion met him by the way and killed him. His body was thrown on the path, and the donkey stood by it. The lion also stood by the body.

²⁴ He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

⁵ They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

¹¹ If they say: 'Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk for the innocent without cause; ¹² Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the pit.

¹⁶ for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

¹⁷ haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸ He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

⁴ Fury is cruel, and anger overwhelming, Yet who can stand before jealousy?

¹³ He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

² and asked, "Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." ³ When King Herod heard this, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. ⁴ So he called together all the high priests and scribes of the people and asked them where the Christ was to be born. ⁵ “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: ⁶ 'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come a ruler who will be the shepherd of my people Israel.'" ⁷ Then Herod called the Magi secretly and learned from them the exact time the star had appeared. ⁸ He also sent them to Bethlehem, telling them, "Go and make a careful search for the child, and when you have found him report to me, so that I may go and worship him too." ⁹ After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went ahead of them until it stood over the place where the Child was. ¹⁰ When they saw the star, they were very glad, ¹¹ On coming into the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they fell down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, and of frankincense, and of myrrh. ¹² And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route. ¹³ When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.” ¹⁴ So he got up and took the child and his mother during the night and went away to Egypt. ¹⁵ where he stayed until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my Son.” ¹⁶ When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.

⁴⁰ and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!” ⁴¹ In the same way the Chief Priests, with the Teaches of the Law and Councillors, said in mockery: ⁴² "He saved others," they said, "but he cannot save himself! He the 'king of Israel'! Let him come down now from the cross; then we will believe in him!

²⁹ Those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, ³⁰ 'come down from the cross and save yourself!" ³¹ In the same way, the chief priests and scribes mocked Him among themselves, saying, “He who saved others cannot even save Himself! ³² Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.

¹² If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe; how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹⁰ So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, ¹¹ for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.

¹⁶ They said, "What should we do with these men? For it's obvious to everybody living in Jerusalem that an unmistakable sign has been done by them, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷ But to keep this message from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” ¹⁸ Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

⁵ "I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man.

²² Reuben said: "Did I not tell you? Did I say, 'Do not sin against the boy'? You would not listen! Now comes the reckoning for his blood."

²⁸ That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

²⁸ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

¹² He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

¹¹ But he did not lay his hand upon the princes of the sons of Israel, and they saw God and ate and drank.

⁹ but you must surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You shall bear the responsibility.”

¹ Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to persecute them.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colours.

³¹ Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. ³² They took the robe to their father and said: "We found this. Does it belong to your son?" ³³ He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."

²¹ They said to one another: "Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw his distress when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

¹⁸ They divide My garments among them and cast lots for My clothing.

²⁸ They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

⁷ For they have hidden their pit-net for me without cause; without cause they have dug for my soul.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

⁸ You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

¹ A song of ascents. Out of the depths I call to you, O LORD. ² Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.

⁶ So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah, the son of the king, which was in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.

⁵² Those who are my enemies, without a cause, have chased me about like a bird. ⁵³ They have cut off my life in the pit, and cast a stone at me. ⁵⁴ Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off. ⁵⁵ I called on your name, LORD, out of the depths of the pit.

²⁰ The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.

¹¹ As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

¹¹ the LORD's angel also said: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael (means: God hears). the LORD has heard of your misery. ¹² "He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers."

¹ Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. ² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. ³ Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan, and the descendants of Dedan were the Asshurim, the Letushim, and the Leummim. ⁴ The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their towns and in their camps, twelve princes according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these, are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years,—and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered unto his people. ¹⁸ And they dwelled from Havilah to Shur, that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brothers.

²¹ So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.

²³ Laban took his men with him and pursued Jacob for seven days until he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead.

²⁸ Some of the Midianite traders approached. The brothers pulled Joseph out of the well and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites. They took him to Egypt.

³⁶ (37:35) And the Midianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Potiphar, Pharaoh's eunuch, the captain of the guard.

¹ Joseph had been taken to Egypt. Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's Egyptian officials and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

¹¹ Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so then do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift—a little balm and honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, and pistachios and almonds.

¹⁵ The couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered.

⁴ Have all evildoers no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? They do not call on the LORD.

⁶ the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites;

²⁰ “So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

²² Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then was there no medicine for the daughter of my people?

¹¹ Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.

⁶ who drink bowls of wine, and they anoint with the best of oils; but they are not grieved for the breaking of Joseph!

¹⁰ the LORD said: "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood (life) cries out to me from the ground.

³² Esau said, "Look, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"

²⁰ And now go, and we will kill him and fling him into one of the cisterns and say, `An evil animal devoured him,' and see will we what will become of his dreams.

⁸ "If a case is too difficult for you to decide with respect to bloodshed, civil claims, assault and battery, or other matters of dispute within your courts, bring it to the place that the LORD your God will choose.

¹⁶ David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you by saying, 'I killed the LORD's anointed one!'"

¹⁸ "Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

⁹ "What gain is there in my death, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

⁸ Ten men from the group pleaded with Ishmael: "Do not kill us! We have wheat, barley, olive oil, and honey hidden in the country." So he left them alone and did not kill them along with the others.

⁷ ""Her blood is in her midst. She placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

²⁶ What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

²¹ What fruit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

¹⁴ Laban said: "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a whole month.

²² And Reuben said to them, Do not shed blood. Throw him into this pit in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him; so that he might deliver him from their hands, to return him to his father.

¹⁶ Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

²¹ Notwithstanding, if he gets up after a day or two, he shall not be punished, for he is his property.

¹⁷ Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the LORD." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him."

¹⁴ In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁵ The letter said: "Put Uriah on the front line where the fighting is the worst. Pull the troops back from him, so that he will be wounded and die." ¹⁶ Wherefore as Joab was besieging the city, he put Urias in the place where he knew the bravest men were. ¹⁷ When the men of the city came out to fight Joab, some of David's army staff members fell, and Uriah the Hittite died, too.

⁹ "'Why did you despise what the LORD has promised by doing what is detestable in his sight? "'You struck down Uriah the Hittite with a battle sword. "'You took his wife to be your own. "'You killed him with the sword of the Ammonite army.

⁸ And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, which were sold to the heathen; and will you even sell your brothers? or shall they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

¹⁵ and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

¹⁰ for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine

¹³ cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and chariots; and slaves and human souls.

² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

²⁵ As they sat down to eat, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying the materials for cosmetics, medicine, and embalming. They were on their way to take them to Egypt.

⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, Now come near to me And they came near. And he said, I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. ⁵ So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you.

¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

¹⁵ The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a leader of a tribe of the family in Midian.

¹⁷ "Treat the Midianites as your enemies, and kill them!

² "Seek vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people." ³ Moses said to the people: "Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. the LORD will use them to get even with Midian.

⁸ They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword. ⁹ The Israelites took the Midianite women and children as prisoners of war. They also took all their animals, their livestock, and their valuables as loot.

¹ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Midianites for seven years. ² And when the hand of the Midianites was sore upon Israel, the children of Israel made them dens in the mountains and caves and strongholds. ³ When the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites along with the desert tribes attacked them.

²² Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you, your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.”

²⁴ And he said to them: I desire one request of you: Give me the earlets of your spoils. For the Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets.

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon

¹⁷ He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

⁶ »Many camels will cover your land, young camels from Midian and Ephah. Everyone from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and incense. They will sing the praises of the LORD.

¹² I said to them, If you think it best, give me my value; and if not, keep it. So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. ¹³ the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the LORD’s house.

⁹ Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,

¹³ And the sons of Jacob answer Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and they speak (because he defiled Dinah their sister),

³⁴ Then Jacob rent his cloaths and put on sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

¹³ Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city.

⁶ Joshua, the son of Nun and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, who were with those who explored the land, tore their clothes.

³⁵ When he saw her he tore his clothes and said, Alas my daughter! You have made me very sad and troubled, for I have made a vow to the LORD and I can't go back on it.

¹ Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

²⁰ And Job rose up and tore his robe, and shaved his head. And he fell down on the ground and worshiped.

¹³ Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

¹⁴ But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

¹³ Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

³² We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more. And the youngest is now with our father in the land of Chanaan.

³⁵ As they were emptying their sacks, each man found his bag of money in his sack. When they and their father saw the bags of money, they were frightened. ³⁶ Jacob, their father, said to them, "You have bereaved me of my children. Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me."

¹⁵ Thus says the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

²⁰ "We answered, 'We have a father who is old and a younger brother born to him when he was already old. The boy's brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother's sons left, and his father loves him.' ²¹ Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.' ²² And we said to my lord, This son cannot leave his father; for if he were to leave him, his father would die. ²³ But you said to your servants, Except your younger brother come down with you, you shall not see my face again.

³⁰ But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fatted calf for him!’

²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:

¹⁵ The simple believes every word, but the prudent man gives thought to his steps.

⁷ Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

²⁹ Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

⁶ And Joshua tore his clothing, and fell on his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they threw dust on their heads.

¹¹ David and all his men tore their clothes in sorrow.

³¹ And David said to Joab, and to all the people with him, Tear your clothes, and gird on sackcloths, and lament before Abner! And king David went behind the bier.

³¹ And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

²⁷ When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

¹⁶ David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

³ When I heard this I tore my garment and my robe, and I pulled the hair out from my head and beard, and I sat appalled. ⁴ Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel was gathered to me, because of the sin of those who had been exiled. And I remained dumb until the evening sacrifice. ⁵ At the time of the evening sacrifice, I arose from my discouragement. Still in my torn garment and robe, I fell to my knees with my hands outstretched to the LORD my God,

¹ On the twenty-fourth day of this same month, the Israelites gathered together while fasting, wearing sackcloth, and covering themselves with dust.

¹ When Mordecai perceived all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried loud and lamentably, ² until he came to the entrance of the palace. He did not go in because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed inside. ³ In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

¹² And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and everyone tore his garment, and sprinkled dust upon their heads,

¹¹ When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

¹² And the Lord, the LORD Almighty, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding with sackcloth. ¹³ and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

¹¹ Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

²² Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the ⌊palace⌋, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah with torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

²⁴ Yet the king and all his servants who heard these words were not afraid, nor did they tear their garments.

⁵ And the men of Ninive believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least. ⁶ The news reached the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. ⁷ And he cried out and said in Nineveh by the decree of the king and his great ones, saying, Do not let man or beast, herd or flock taste anything; do not let them feed, nor drink water. ⁸ but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God; and let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

²¹ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had happened in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

⁶⁵ Then the high priest tore his clothes and said, "He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard his blasphemy.

³ And I will authorize My two witnesses to prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.

⁴³ Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine! What can I do today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?

²² While Israel lived in that region, Reuben went to bed with his father's concubine Bilhah. Israel heard about it. Jacob had twelve sons. ²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. ²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

³¹ But we said to him, 'We are honest; we are not spies.

³⁸ Jacob replied: "My son will not go with you. His brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If any harm comes to him on the trip you are taking, the grief would drive this gray-haired old man to his grave!"

²⁹ And if you take this one also from my face, and harm happen to him, you will bring my gray hair to the grave in sorrow. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy's life; ³¹ it will be when he sees that the youth is not, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father to the grave in sorrow.

²⁸ And Israel said, It is enough! My son Joseph is alive; I will go and see him before I die.

¹⁷ The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them.

¹¹ ¶ Now three friends of Job, Eliphaz, the Temanite, Bildad, the Shuhite, and Zophar, the Naamathite, when they heard of all this evil that had come upon him, each one came from his own place; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

² In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.

¹ Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. ² She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

¹ Joseph had been taken to Egypt. Potiphar, one of Pharaoh's Egyptian officials and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there. ² And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. And he was in the house of the Egyptian, his master. ³ Joseph’s master saw that the LORD was with him. the LORD made him succeed in everything he did. ⁴ And Joseph found favour in his eyes, and attended on him; and he set him over his house, and all that he had he gave into his hand. ⁵ And it happened that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph. And the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field. ⁶ He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He did not concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome. ⁷ and after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me; ⁸ But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not worry about what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand. ⁹ No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” ¹⁰ She kept asking Joseph day after day. He refused to go to bed with her or be with her. ¹¹ One day he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were there. ¹² She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside. ¹³ When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside, ¹⁴ She called to her the men of her house, and said to them: See, he hath brought in a Hebrew, to abuse us: he came in to me, to lie with me; and when I cried out, ¹⁵ "When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me." ¹⁶ So she left his clothes by her, until his master came home. ¹⁷ Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me. ¹⁸ "When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house." ¹⁹ And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "This is what your servant did to me," he became very angry. ²⁰ And Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison. ²¹ But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. ²² And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there. ²³ The jailer did not worry about anything, because the LORD was with Joseph and made him successful in all that he did.

⁴ The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph. He took care of them. After they had been confined for some time,

⁸ In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus,

³ Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD speak, saying, “the LORD will surely separate me from his people.” Do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”