Acts 13 Cross References - YLT

¹ And there were certain in Antioch, in the assembly there, prophets and teachers; both Barnabas, and Simeon who is called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen also—Herod the tetrarch's foster-brother—and Saul; ² and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,' <sup>3</sup> then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent them away.
<sup>4</sup> These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus, <sup>5</sup> and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant; <sup>6</sup> and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus; <sup>7</sup> who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God, <sup>8</sup> and there withstood them Elymas the magian—for so is his name interpreted—seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith. <sup>9</sup> And Saul—who also is Paul—having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him, <sup>10</sup> said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹ and now, lo, a hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead him by the hand; ¹² then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord. ¹³ And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,
¹⁴ and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, ¹⁵ and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people—say on.' <sup>16</sup> And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken: ¹⁷ the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it; ¹⁸ and about a period of forty years He did suffer their manners in the wilderness, ¹⁹ and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land. ²⁰ `And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges—till Samuel the prophet; <sup>21</sup> and thereafter they asked for a king, and God did give to them Saul, son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years; <sup>22</sup> and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will. <sup>23</sup> `Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour—Jesus, ²⁴ John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel; ²⁵ and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not he, but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of his feet. ²⁶ `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent, <sup>27</sup> for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him —did fulfil, <sup>28</sup> and no cause of death having found, they did ask of Pilate that he should be slain, <sup>29</sup> and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken him down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb; <sup>30</sup> and God did raise him out of the dead, <sup>31</sup> and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. <sup>32</sup> `And we to you do proclaim good news—that the promise made unto the fathers, ³³ God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee. ³⁴ `And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus—I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David; <sup>35</sup> wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption, <sup>36</sup> for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, <sup>37</sup> but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption. <sup>38</sup> `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared, ³⁹ and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous; ⁴⁰ see, therefore, it may not come upon you that hath been spoken in the prophets: ⁴¹ See, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, because a work I—I do work in your days, a work in which ye may not believe, though any one may declare it to you.'
⁴² And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon them that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them, ⁴³ and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God. ⁴⁴ And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God, ⁴⁵ and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and speaking evil. ⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations; ⁴⁷ for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations—for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.' ⁴⁸ And the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe—as many as were appointed to life age-during; ⁴⁹ and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region. ⁵⁰ And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders; ⁵¹ and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium, ⁵² and the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.

¹ At that time did Herod the tetrarch hear the fame of Jesus, ² and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.' <sup>3</sup> For Herod having laid hold on John, did bind him, and did put him in prison, because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, <sup>4</sup> for John was saying to him, `It is not lawful to thee to have her,' ⁵ and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him. ⁶ But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod, ⁷ whereupon with an oath he professed to give her whatever she might ask. ⁸ And she having been instigated by her mother—`Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist; ⁹ and the king was grieved, but because of the oaths and of those reclining with him, he commanded it to be given; ¹⁰ and having sent, he beheaded John in the prison,

¹ And in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar—Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene—

¹⁹ and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did, ²⁰ added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.

³¹ On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;' <sup>32</sup> and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am being perfected;

⁷ and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days. ⁸ And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long time to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him, ⁹ and was questioning him in many words, and he answered him nothing. ¹⁰ And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him, ¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

³⁶ And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas—which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort—a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

¹ And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; ² and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him; ³ and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

¹ And Saul, yet breathing of threatening and slaughter to the disciples of the Lord, having gone to the chief priest,

¹⁹ Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only; ²⁰ and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news—the Lord Jesus,

²² And the account was heard in the ears of the assembly that is in Jerusalem concerning them, and they sent forth Barnabas to go through unto Antioch, ²³ who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord, ²⁴ because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord. ²⁵ And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul, ²⁶ and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.
²⁷ And in those days there came from Jerusalem prophets to Antioch,

³⁰ which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

²⁵ and Barnabas and Saul did turn back out of Jerusalem, having fulfilled the ministration, having taken also with them John, who was surnamed Mark.

⁹ And Saul—who also is Paul—having been filled with the Holy Spirit, and having looked stedfastly on him,

²⁶ and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled; ²⁷ and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

³² Judas also and Silas, being themselves also prophets, through much discourse did exhort the brethren, and confirm,

³⁵ And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news—with many others also—the word of the Lord;

⁶ and Paul having laid on them his hands, the Holy Spirit came upon them, they were speaking also with tongues, and prophesying,

⁹ and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

⁶ And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy—`According to the proportion of faith!' <sup>7</sup> or ministration—`In the ministration!' or he who is teaching—`In the teaching!'

²¹ Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;

⁶ or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority—not to work?

²⁸ And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues; ²⁹ are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all powers?

²⁴ and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, ²⁵ and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon his face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

⁹ and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

¹³ and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

¹¹ and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

²² there salute you all the saints, and specially those of Caesar's house;

²⁰ prophesyings despise not;

¹¹ and Aaron hath waved the Levites—a wave-offering before Jehovah, from the sons of Israel, and they have been—for doing the service of Jehovah. ¹² `And the Levites lay their hands on the head of the bullocks, and make thou the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering to Jehovah, to atone for the Levites, ¹³ and thou hast caused the Levites to stand before Aaron, and before his sons, and hast waved them—a wave-offering to Jehovah; ¹⁴ and thou hast separated the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have become Mine;

⁸ `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,

¹¹ And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, in the presence of Eli the priest;

⁴ And he putteth before the ark of Jehovah, of the Levites, ministers, even to make mention of, and to thank, and to give praise to Jehovah, God of Israel,

³⁷ And he leaveth there before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, for Asaph and for his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, according to the matter of a day in its day, ³⁸ both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers, ³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in a high place that is in Gibeon, ⁴⁰ to cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the altar of burnt-offering continually, morning and evening, and for all that is written in the law of Jehovah, that He charged on Israel. ⁴¹ And with them are Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age is His kindness, ⁴² and with them—Heman and Jeduthun—are trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun are at the gate. ⁴³ And all the people go, each to his house, and David turneth round to bless his house.

³ and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

¹⁶ `And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

¹⁴ Then come to him do the disciples of John, saying, `Wherefore do we and the Pharisees fast much, and thy disciples fast not?' <sup>15</sup> And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

³⁸ beseech ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he may put forth workmen to His harvest.'

³⁷ and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

¹ And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,

⁴ and we to prayer, and to the ministration of the word, will give ourselves continually.'

²⁹ And the Spirit said to Philip, `Go near, and be joined to this chariot;'

¹⁵ And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings—the sons also of Israel;

¹⁹ And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;

³⁰ And Cornelius said, `Four days ago till this hour, I was fasting, and at the ninth hour praying in my house, and, lo, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

³ then having fasted, and having prayed, and having laid the hands on them, they sent them away.

²⁶ and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;

⁶ and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia, ⁷ having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,

²⁸ `Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

²¹ and he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.'

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God—

¹⁵ and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

¹⁶ for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

⁵ Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

¹¹ and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

⁵ in stripes, in imprisonments, in insurrections, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

²⁷ in labouriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

¹⁵ and when God was well pleased—having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called me through His grace—

⁸ for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations, ⁹ and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,

⁷ of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

¹⁷ and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'

⁷ in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle—truth I say in Christ, I do not lie—a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

¹¹ to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

² and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

⁵ And thou—watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

¹¹ Lukas only is with me; Markus having taken, bring with thyself, for he is profitable to me for ministration;

⁴ and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:

²³ and layeth his hands upon him, and chargeth him, as Jehovah hath spoken by the hand of Moses.

⁶ whom they did set before the apostles, and they, having prayed, laid on them their hands.

¹⁵ who having come down did pray concerning them, that they may receive the Holy Spirit, — ¹⁶ for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized—to the name of the Lord Jesus; ¹⁷ then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him his hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me—Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming—that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'

² and in their ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, `Separate ye to me both Barnabas and Saul to the work to which I have called them,'

²³ and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

⁴⁰ and Paul having chosen Silas, went forth, having been given up to the grace of God by the brethren;

¹⁴ be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;

²² Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;

⁶ For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

⁶ who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

⁸ we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

¹⁹ Those, indeed, therefore, having been scattered abroad, from the tribulation that came after Stephen, went through unto Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to none except to Jews only;

²³ save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

⁴ And thence, having set sail, we sailed under Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary,

¹³ And Moses riseth—Joshua his minister also—and Moses goeth up unto the mount of God;

³ And he feareth, and riseth, and goeth for his life, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, that is Judah's, and leaveth his young man there,

²¹ And he turneth back from after him, and taketh the yoke of oxen, and sacrificeth it, and with instruments of the oxen he hath boiled their flesh, and giveth to the people, and they eat, and he riseth, and goeth after Elijah, and serveth him.

¹¹ And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah, and we seek Jehovah by him?' And one of the servants of the king of Israel answereth and saith, `Here is Elisha son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.'

²⁶ but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

²⁰ and immediately in the synagogues he was preaching the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

¹² also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.

¹⁴ and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,

⁴⁶ And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, `To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;

¹ And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude;

³⁷ And Barnabas counselled to take with them John called Mark,

¹ And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews, ² and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings, ³ opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ—Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

¹⁷ therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

⁴ and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

⁸ And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,

¹⁰ Salute you doth Aristarchus, my fellow-captive, and Marcus, the nephew of Barnabas, (concerning whom ye did receive commands—if he may come unto you receive him,)

¹⁸ `A witch thou dost not keep alive.

⁶ `And the person who turneth unto those having familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a-whoring after them, I have even set My face against that person, and cut him off from the midst of his people.

¹ `When there ariseth in your midst a prophet, or a dreamer of a dream, and he hath given unto thee a sign or wonder, ² and the sign and the wonder hath come which he hath spoken of unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods (which thou hast not known), and serve them, ³ thou dost not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of the dream, for Jehovah your God is trying you, to know whether ye are loving Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your soul;

¹⁰ there is not found in thee one causing his son and his daughter to pass over into fire, a user of divinations, an observer of clouds, and an enchanter, and a sorcerer, ¹¹ and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead. ¹² `For the abomination of Jehovah is every one doing these, and because of these abominations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from thy presence.

²² and he saith, I go out, and have been a spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice, and also thou art able; go out and do so.

¹³ And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit—to inquire, —

¹⁹ And when they say unto you, `Seek unto those having familiar spirits, And unto wizards, who chatter and mutter, Doth not a people seek unto its God? —For the living unto the dead! <sup>20</sup> To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹⁴ And in prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing, Committing adultery, and walking falsely, Yea, they strengthened the hands of evil doers, So that they have not turned back Each from his wickedness, They have been to me—all of them—as Sodom, And its inhabitants as Gomorrah. ¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.

¹⁰ Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk. ¹¹ Say to those daubing with chalk—It falleth, There hath been an overflowing shower, And ye, O hailstones, do fall, And a tempestuous wind doth rend, ¹² And lo, fallen hath the wall! Doth not one say unto you, Where is the daubing that ye daubed? ¹³ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have rent with a tempestuous wind in My fury, And an overflowing shower is in Mine anger, And hailstones in My fury—to consume. ¹⁴ And I have broken down the wall that ye daubed with chalk, And have caused it to come unto the earth, And revealed hath been its foundation, And it hath fallen, And ye have been consumed in its midst, And ye have known that I am Jehovah. ¹⁵ And I have completed My wrath on the wall, And on those daubing it with chalk, And I say to you: The wall is not, And those daubing it are not; ¹⁶ The prophets of Israel who are prophesying concerning Jerusalem, And who are seeing for her a vision of peace, And there is no peace, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

³ And it hath been, when one prophesieth again, That said unto him have his father and his mother, his parents, `Thou dost not live, For falsehood thou hast spoken in the name of Jehovah,' And pierced him through have his father and his mother, his parents, in his prophesying.

¹⁵ `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

²⁴ for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

⁴⁶ And they come to Jericho, and as he is going forth from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, a son of Timaeus—Bartimaeus the blind—was sitting beside the way begging,

¹⁵ When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' <sup>16</sup> He saith to him again, a second time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou love me?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Tend my sheep.' ¹⁷ He saith to him the third time, `Simon, son of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one, ¹⁰ to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;' ¹¹ and they were giving heed to him, because of his having for a long time amazed them with deeds of magic.

¹⁸ many also of those who did believe were coming, confessing and declaring their acts, ¹⁹ and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning them before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found it five myriads of silverlings;

¹³ for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

⁸ and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith;

¹ And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, ² and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

¹ Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

²⁰ and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast—the two—to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, And the folly of fools is deceit.

¹⁵ The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

¹⁸ The simple have inherited folly, And the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

¹⁵ The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

⁹ Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

⁸ and there withstood them Elymas the magian—for so is his name interpreted—seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

¹² then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

¹¹ and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; ¹² many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.

¹² And Gallio being proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a rush with one accord upon Paul, and brought him unto the tribunal,

³⁸ if indeed, therefore, Demetrius and the artificers with him with any one have a matter, court days are held, and there are proconsuls; let them accuse one another.

²¹ all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

¹¹ And Pharaoh also calleth for wise men, and for sorcerers; and the scribes of Egypt, they also, with their flashings, do so, ¹² and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods; ¹³ and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

²⁴ And Zedekiah son of Chenaanah draweth nigh, and smiteth Micaiah on the cheek, and saith, `Where is this—he hath passed over—the Spirit of Jehovah—from me to speak with thee?'

¹ And it cometh to pass, in that year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, spoken unto me hath Hananiah son of Azur the prophet, who is of Gibeon, in the house of Jehovah, before the eyes of the priests, and all the people, saying,

¹⁰ And Hananiah the prophet taketh the yoke from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, and breaketh it, ¹¹ And Hananiah speaketh before the eyes of all the people, saying, `Thus said Jehovah, Thus I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, within two years of days, from off the neck of all the nations;' and Jeremiah the prophet goeth on his way.

²⁴ `And unto Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou dost speak, saying, <sup>25</sup> Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, saying, Because that thou hast sent in thy name letters unto all the people who are in Jerusalem, and unto Zephaniah son of Maaseiah the priest, and unto all the priests, saying, <sup>26</sup> Jehovah hath made thee priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, for there being inspectors of the house of Jehovah, for every one mad and making himself a prophet, and thou hast put him unto the torture and unto the stocks. <sup>27</sup> And now, why hast thou not pushed against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is making himself a prophet to you? <sup>28</sup> Because that he hath sent unto us to Babylon, saying, It is long, build ye houses, and abide; and plant ye gardens, and eat their fruit.' <sup>29</sup> And Zephaniah the priest readeth this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet. <sup>30</sup> And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying, <sup>31</sup> `Send unto all the removal, saying, Thus said Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite, Because that Shemaiah prophesied to you, and I—I have not sent him, and he doth cause you to trust on falsehood, ³² Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am seeing after Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and after his seed, he hath none dwelling in the midst of this people, nor doth he look on the good that I am doing to My people—an affirmation of Jehovah—for apostasy he hath spoken against Jehovah.'

⁴¹ this one doth first find his own brother Simon, and saith to him, `We have found the Messiah,' (which is, being interpreted, The Anointed,)

⁷ And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

⁹ And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,

³⁶ And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;

⁶ and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus; ⁷ who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

¹⁴ Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works, ¹⁵ of whom also do thou beware, for greatly hath he stood against our words;

⁸ And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.

⁵ And having looked round upon them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their heart, he saith to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he stretched forth, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

¹⁷ and he, having looked upon them, said, `What, then, is this that hath been written: A stone that the builders rejected—this became head of a corner?

⁴ and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

⁸ Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

³¹ And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

⁵⁵ and being full of the Holy Spirit, having looked stedfastly to the heaven, he saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

¹⁵ and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee—the head, and thou dost bruise him—the heel.'

¹⁹ for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'

⁶ and his heart is high in the ways of Jehovah, and again he hath turned aside the high places and the shrines out of Judah.

³ This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it—unto the dead.

³⁶ And the burden of Jehovah ye do not mention any more, For the burden to each is—His word, And ye have overturned the words of the living God, Jehovah of Hosts, our God.

⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

³⁸ and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,

¹⁹ for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

¹³ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

²⁵ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. <sup>26</sup> `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean. ²⁷ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; <sup>28</sup> so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. <sup>29</sup> `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets; ³² and ye—ye fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

⁵² `Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

²³ He said, `I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

⁴⁴ `Ye are of a father—the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar—also his father.

²⁰ And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee—may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money; ²¹ thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God; ²² reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee, ²³ for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

²⁵ this one was instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in the Spirit, was speaking and teaching exactly the things about the Lord, knowing only the baptism of John; ²⁶ this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to them, and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

³ and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in the Christ;

⁷ that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

¹⁵ having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

⁸ he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

¹¹ and the men who are at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

³ lo, the hand of Jehovah is on thy cattle which are in the field, on horses, on asses, on camels, on herd, and on flock—a pestilence very grievous.

⁶ And the hand of Jehovah is heavy on the Ashdodites, and He maketh them desolate, and smiteth them with emerods, Ashdod and its borders. ⁷ And the men of Ashdod see that it is so, and have said, `The ark of the God of Israel doth not abide with us, for hard hath been His hand upon us, and upon Dagon our god.'

⁹ and it cometh to pass after they have brought it round, that the hand of Jehovah is against the city—a very great destruction; and He smiteth the men of the city, from small even unto great; and break forth on them do emerods.

¹¹ And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines, and say, `Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and it turneth back to its place, and it doth not put us to death—and our people;' for there hath been a deadly destruction throughout all the city, very heavy hath the hand of God been there,

⁸ And the king of Aram hath been fighting against Israel, and taketh counsel with his servants, saying, `At such and such a place is my encamping.'

²¹ Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me.

⁴ When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

² For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.

¹⁰ Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed. ¹¹ With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

¹⁰ For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes—the prophets, And your heads—the seers—He covered.

³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

⁸ and Saul arose from the earth, and his eyes having been opened, he beheld no one, and leading him by the hand they brought him to Damascus, ⁹ and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.

⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened, ⁸ according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' —unto this very day, <sup>9</sup> and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret—that ye may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

³¹ fearful is the falling into the hands of a living God.

¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept;

²⁸ And it came to pass, when Jesus ended these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching, ²⁹ for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

⁵⁴ And the centurion, and those with him watching Jesus, having seen the earthquake, and the things that were done, were exceedingly afraid, saying, `Truly this was God's Son.'

²² and all were bearing testimony to him, and were wondering at the gracious words that are coming forth out of his mouth, and they said, `Is not this the son of Joseph?'

¹⁶ and fear took hold of all, and they were glorifying God, saying—`A great prophet hath risen among us,' and—`God did look upon His people.'

⁴⁶ The officers answered, `Never so spake man—as this man.'

¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;

⁷ who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man; this one having called for Barnabas and Saul, did desire to hear the word of God,

⁴⁹ and the word of the Lord was spread abroad through all the region.

⁷ and all the men were, as it were, twelve.

⁷ And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge us;

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, ⁵ reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

¹⁰ Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

⁵ and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant; ⁶ and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus;

²⁴ And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia, ²⁵ and having spoken in Perga the word, they went down to Attalia,

³⁸ and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

⁵ and having sailed over the sea over-against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myria of Lycia,

¹³ and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained their purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close by Crete,

⁵ and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John as a ministrant;

⁴² And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon them that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,

⁴⁴ And on the coming sabbath, almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word of God,

¹⁹ And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

²¹ Having proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many, they turned back to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, ²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God, ²³ and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed. ²⁴ And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia,

¹³ on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,

² and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

²² and lo, there doth come one of the chiefs of the synagogue, by name Jairus, and having seen him, he doth fall at his feet,

¹⁶ And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read; ¹⁷ and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written: ¹⁸ `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

¹⁶ the law and the prophets are till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

¹⁶ `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

²⁹ `Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

³⁷ And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?'

² and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,

²⁷ for those dwelling in Jerusalem, and their chiefs, this one not having known, also the voices of the prophets, which every sabbath are being read—having judged him —did fulfil,

⁷ and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;

²¹ for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him—in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

⁸ and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

¹⁷ and all the Greeks having taken Sosthenes, the chief man of the synagogue, were beating him before the tribunal, and not even for these things was Gallio caring.

² and having gone through those parts, and having exhorted them with many words, he came to Greece;

¹ `Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' —

⁸ or he who is exhorting—`In the exhortation!' he who is sharing—`In simplicity!' he who is leading—`In diligence?' he who is doing kindness—`In cheerfulness.'

³ and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

²² And I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of the exhortation, for also through few words I have written to you.

⁴⁶ and saith unto them, `Set your heart to all the words which I am testifying against you to-day, that ye command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law, ⁴⁷ for it is not a vain thing for you, for it is your life, and by this thing ye prolong days on the ground whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it.'

⁴⁰ so that they fear Thee all the days that they are living on the face of the ground that Thou hast given to our fathers.

¹ To the Overseer. —By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world. ² Both low and high, together rich and needy. ³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

⁷ God doth bless us, and all ends of earth fear Him!

¹ An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth. ² I open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,

⁹ Only, near to those fearing Him is His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

²⁰ O house of Levi, bless ye Jehovah, Those fearing Jehovah, bless ye Jehovah.

⁸ And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin. ⁹ Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

¹⁵ he who is having ears to hear—let him hear.

⁵⁰ And His kindness is to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

⁴⁰ And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment?

¹⁴ and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

²² `Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

¹² and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?

² pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

³⁵ but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

¹⁷ and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

²⁶ `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

⁴² And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon them that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them, ⁴³ and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

³³ and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander—the Jews thrusting him forward—and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,

⁴⁰ And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:

²² And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

⁷ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming—I will give to him to eat of the tree of life that is in the midst of the paradise of God.

¹¹ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.

¹⁷ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving it .

²⁹ He who is having an ear—let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies.

¹ And Jehovah saith unto Abram, `Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee. ² And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. ³ And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; ⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

⁷ and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.
⁸ And there riseth a new king over Egypt, who hath not known Joseph, ⁹ and he saith unto his people, `Lo, the people of the sons of Israel is more numerous and mighty than we;

¹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Now dost thou see that which I do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he doth send them away, yea, with a strong hand he doth cast them out of his land.' <sup>2</sup> And God speaketh unto Moses, and saith unto him, `I am Jehovah, ³ and I appear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; as to My name Jehovah, I have not been known to them; ⁴ and also I have established My covenant with them, to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they have sojourned; ⁵ and also I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians are causing to serve, and I remember My covenant. ⁶ `Therefore say to the sons of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I have brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and have delivered you from their service, and have redeemed you by a stretched-out arm, and by great judgments, <sup>7</sup> and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I am Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians; <sup>8</sup> and I have brought you in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and have given it to you—a possession; I am Jehovah.' <sup>9</sup> And Moses speaketh so unto the sons of Israel, and they hearkened not unto Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for harsh service.
<sup>10</sup> And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, <sup>11</sup> `Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he doth send the sons of Israel out of his land; ¹² and Moses speaketh before Jehovah, saying, `Lo, the sons of Israel have not hearkened unto me, and how doth Pharaoh hear me, and I of uncircumcised lips?' ¹³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and chargeth them for the sons of Israel, and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt.
¹⁴ These are heads of the house of their fathers: Sons of Reuben first-born of Israel are Hanoch, and Phallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these are families of Reuben.

¹⁴ `And it hath been, when thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What is this? that thou hast said unto him, By strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from a house of servants;

¹⁶ and it hath been for a token on thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes, for by strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.'

¹ Then singeth Moses and the sons of Israel this song to Jehovah, and they speak, saying: —`I sing to Jehovah, For triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea. <sup>2</sup> My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him. <sup>3</sup> Jehovah is a man of battle; Jehovah is His name. <sup>4</sup> Chariots of Pharaoh and his force He hath cast into the sea; And the choice of his captains Have sunk in the Red Sea! <sup>5</sup> The depths do cover them; They went down into the depths as a stone. <sup>6</sup> Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Is become honourable in power; Thy right hand, O Jehovah, Doth crush an enemy. <sup>7</sup> And in the abundance of Thine excellency Thou throwest down Thy withstanders, Thou sendest forth Thy wrath—It consumeth them as stubble. <sup>8</sup> And by the spirit of Thine anger Have waters been heaped together; Stood as a heap have flowings; Congealed have been depths In the heart of a sea. <sup>9</sup> The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: — <sup>10</sup> Thou hast blown with Thy wind The sea hath covered them; They sank as lead in mighty waters. <sup>11</sup> Who is like Thee among the gods, O Jehovah? Who is like Thee—honourable in holiness—Fearful in praises—doing wonders? <sup>12</sup> Thou hast stretched out Thy right hand—Earth swalloweth them! <sup>13</sup> Thou hast led forth in Thy kindness The people whom Thou hast redeemed. Thou hast led on in Thy strength Unto Thy holy habitation. <sup>14</sup> Peoples have heard, they are troubled; Pain hath seized inhabitants of Philistia. <sup>15</sup> Then have chiefs of Edom been troubled: Mighty ones of Moab—Trembling doth seize them! Melted have all inhabitants of Canaan! <sup>16</sup> Fall on them doth terror and dread; By the greatness of Thine arm They are still as a stone, Till Thy people pass over, O Jehovah; Till the people pass over Whom Thou hast purchased. <sup>17</sup> Thou dost bring them in, And dost plant them In a mountain of Thine inheritance, A fixed place for Thy dwelling Thou hast made, O Jehovah; A sanctuary, O Lord, Thy hands have established; <sup>18</sup> Jehovah reigneth—to the age, and for ever!' <sup>19</sup> For the horse of Pharaoh hath gone in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah turneth back on them the waters of the sea, and the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea. <sup>20</sup> And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses; <sup>21</sup> and Miriam answereth to them: —`Sing ye to Jehovah, For Triumphing He hath triumphed; The horse and its rider He hath thrown into the sea!'

¹¹ now I have known that Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly—He is above them!'

²⁰ `And you hath Jehovah taken, and He is bringing you out from the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be to Him for a people—an inheritance, as at this day.

³⁴ Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors—according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

³⁷ `And because that He hath loved thy fathers, He doth also fix on their seed after them, and doth bring thee out, in His presence, by His great power, from Egypt:

⁶ for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground. ⁷ `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye are the least of all the peoples, ⁸ but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the strong hand, and the stretched-out arm, with which Jehovah thy God hath brought thee out; so doth Jehovah thy God to all the peoples of whose presence thou art afraid.

⁵ not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;

²² with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.

² for a holy people art thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the ground.

⁸ Woe to us, who doth deliver us out of the hand of these honourable gods? these are the gods who are smiting the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

⁷ `Thou art He, O Jehovah God, who didst fix on Abraham, and didst bring him out from Ur of the Chaldeans, and didst make his name Abraham, <sup>8</sup> and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed. `And Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou art righteous, ⁹ and dost see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry hast heard by the sea of Suph, ¹⁰ and dost give signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land, for Thou hast known that they have acted proudly against them, and Thou makest to Thee a name as at this day. ¹¹ And the sea Thou hast cleaved before them, and they pass over into the midst of the sea on the dry land, and their pursuers Thou hast cast into the depths, as a stone, into the strong waters. ¹² And by a pillar of cloud Thou hast led them by day, and by a pillar of fire by night, to lighten to them the way in which they go.

¹³ O God, in holiness is Thy way, Who is a great god like God? ¹⁴ Thou art the God doing wonders. Thou hast made known among the peoples Thy strength, ¹⁵ Thou hast redeemed with strength Thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. ¹⁶ The waters have seen Thee, O God, The waters have seen Thee, They are afraid—also depths are troubled. ¹⁷ Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also—Thine arrows go up and down. ¹⁸ The voice of Thy thunder is in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh. ¹⁹ In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known. ²⁰ Thou hast led as a flock Thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron!

¹² Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt—the field of Zoan. ¹³ He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.

⁴² They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary. ⁴³ When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan, ⁴⁴ And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not. ⁴⁵ He sendeth among them the beetle, and it consumeth them, And the frog, and it destroyeth them, ⁴⁶ And giveth to the caterpillar their increase, And their labour to the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyeth with hail their vine, And their sycamores with frost, ⁴⁸ And delivereth up to the hail their beasts, And their cattle to the burning flames. ⁴⁹ He sendeth on them the fury of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and distress—A discharge of evil messengers. ⁵⁰ He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up. ⁵¹ And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham. ⁵² And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness, ⁵³ And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones. ⁷ He is Jehovah our God, In all the earth are His judgments.
⁸ He hath remembered to the age His covenant, The word He commanded to a thousand generations, ⁹ That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac, ¹⁰ And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel—a covenant age-during, ¹¹ Saying, `To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,' ¹² In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

²³ And Israel cometh in to Egypt, And Jacob hath sojourned in the land of Ham. ²⁴ And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.

²⁶ He hath sent Moses His servant, Aaron whom He had fixed on. ²⁷ They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham. ²⁸ He hath sent darkness, and it is dark, And they have not provoked His word. ²⁹ He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish. ³⁰ Teemed hath their land with frogs, In the inner chambers of their kings. ³¹ He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border. ³² He hath made their showers hail, A flaming fire is in their land. ³³ And He smiteth their vine and their fig, And shivereth the trees of their border. ³⁴ He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm—innumerable, ³⁵ And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground. ³⁶ And He smiteth every first-born in their land, The first-fruit of all their strength, ³⁷ And bringeth them out with silver and gold, And there is not in its tribes a feeble one. ³⁸ Rejoiced hath Egypt in their going forth, For their fear had fallen upon them. ³⁹ He hath spread a cloud for a covering, And fire to enlighten the night.

⁴² For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant, ⁴³ And He bringeth forth His people with joy, With singing His chosen ones.

⁷ Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph. ⁸ And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might, ⁹ And rebuketh the sea of Suph, and it is dried up, And causeth them to go Through depths as a wilderness. ¹⁰ And He saveth them from the hand Of him who is hating, And redeemeth them from the hand of the enemy. ¹¹ And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

¹ In the going out of Israel from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a strange people, ² Judah became His sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³ The sea hath seen, and fleeth, The Jordan turneth backward. ⁴ The mountains have skipped as rams, Heights as sons of a flock. ⁵ What—to thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, thou turnest back! ⁶ O mountains, ye skip as rams! O heights, as sons of a flock! ⁷ From before the Lord be afraid, O earth, From before the God of Jacob, ⁸ He is turning the rock to a pool of waters, The flint to a fountain of waters!

⁴ For Jacob hath Jah chosen for Himself, Israel for His peculiar treasure.

⁸ Who smote the first-born of Egypt, From man unto beast. ⁹ He sent tokens and wonders into thy midst, O Egypt, On Pharaoh and on all his servants. ¹⁰ Who smote many nations, and slew strong kings,

¹⁰ To Him smiting Egypt in their first-born, For to the age is His kindness. ¹¹ And bringing forth Israel from their midst, For to the age is His kindness. ¹² By a strong hand, and a stretched-out-arm, For to the age is His kindness. ¹³ To Him cutting the sea of Suph into parts, For to the age is His kindness, ¹⁴ And caused Israel to pass through its midst, For to the age is His kindness, ¹⁵ And shook out Pharaoh and his force in the sea of Suph, For to the age is His kindness.

⁸ —And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover, ⁹ Whom I have taken hold of, from the ends of the earth, And from its near places I have called thee, And I say to thee, My servant Thou art, I have chosen thee, and not rejected thee.

¹ And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have fixed on:

⁹ In all their distress He is no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old. ¹⁰ And they have rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit, And He turneth to them for an enemy, He Himself hath fought against them. ¹¹ And He remembereth the days of old, Moses—his people. Where is He who is bringing them up from the sea, The shepherd of his flock? Where is He who is putting in its midst His Holy Spirit? ¹² Leading by the right hand of Moses, the arm of His glory, Cleaving waters from before them, To make to Himself a name age-during. ¹³ Leading them through the depths, As a horse in a plain they stumble not. ¹⁴ As a beast into a valley goeth down, The Spirit of Jehovah causeth him to rest, So hast Thou led Thy people, To make to Thyself a glorious name.

²⁰ In that thou hast done signs and wonders in the land of Egypt unto this day, and in Israel, and among men, and Thou dost make for Thee a name as at this day. ²¹ `And Thou bringest forth Thy people Israel from the land of Egypt, with signs and with wonders, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great fear,

²⁴ `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise—So that they are no more a people before them! ²⁵ Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed— ²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back to their captivity, and have pitied them.'

¹⁰ And I—I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, And cause you to go in a wilderness forty years, To possess the land of the Amorite.

⁴ For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

¹⁵ According to the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt, I do shew it wonderful things. ¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

² and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran, <sup>3</sup> and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee. <sup>4</sup> `Then having come forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, he dwelt in Haran, and from thence, after the death of his father, He did remove him to this land wherein ye now dwell, ⁵ and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him—he having no child. ⁶ `And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years, <sup>7</sup> and the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place. <sup>8</sup> `And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob—the twelve patriarchs; ⁹ and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him, ¹⁰ and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him—governor over Egypt and all his house. ¹¹ `And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance, <sup>12</sup> and Jacob having heard that there was corn in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time; <sup>13</sup> and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh, <sup>14</sup> and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred—with seventy and five souls— <sup>15</sup> and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers, <sup>16</sup> and they were carried over into Sychem, and were laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in money from the sons of Emmor, of Sychem.
<sup>17</sup> `And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt, ¹⁸ till another king rose, who had not known Joseph; ¹⁹ this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live; ²⁰ in which time Moses was born, and he was fair to God, and he was brought up three months in the house of his father; ²¹ and he having been exposed, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and did rear him to herself for a son; ²² and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works. ²³ `And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel; <sup>24</sup> and having seen a certain one suffering injustice, he did defend, and did justice to the oppressed, having smitten the Egyptian; <sup>25</sup> and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand. <sup>26</sup> `On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another? ²⁷ and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us? ²⁸ to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian? ²⁹ `And Moses fled at this word, and became a sojourner in the land of Midian, where he begat two sons,
<sup>30</sup> and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush, <sup>31</sup> and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him, <sup>32</sup> I am the God of thy fathers; the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. `And Moses having become terrified, durst not behold, ³³ and the Lord said to him, Loose the sandal of thy feet, for the place in which thou hast stood is holy ground; ³⁴ seeing I have seen the affliction of My people that is in Egypt, and their groaning I did hear, and came down to deliver them; and now come, I will send thee to Egypt. ³⁵ `This Moses, whom they did refuse, saying, Who did set thee a ruler and a judge? this one God a ruler and a redeemer did send, in the hand of a messenger who appeared to him in the bush; <sup>36</sup> this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years; <sup>37</sup> this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear. <sup>38</sup> `This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us; ³⁹ to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him. ⁴¹ `And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,
<sup>42</sup> and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? <sup>43</sup> and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan—the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon. <sup>44</sup> `The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen; ⁴⁵ which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David, ⁴⁶ who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob; ⁴⁷ and Solomon built Him an house. ⁴⁸ `But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith: <sup>49</sup> The heaven is My throne, and the earth My footstool; what house will ye build to Me? saith the Lord, or what is the place of My rest? <sup>50</sup> hath not My hand made all these things?
<sup>51</sup> `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye; ⁵² which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become, ⁵³ who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep it .'

⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

² And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

³⁵ And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.

²² for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice—

³³ and your sons are evil in the wilderness forty years, and have borne your whoredoms till your carcases are consumed in the wilderness; ³⁴ by the number of the days in which ye spied the land, forty days, —a day for a year, a day for a year—ye do bear your iniquities, forty years, and ye have known my breaking off;

³¹ and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.

⁷ `Remember—do not forget—that with which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;

²¹ and your sin, which ye have made—the calf—I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it is small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount. ²² `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth: ²³ and in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice; ²⁴ rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.

¹⁶ `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands, <sup>17</sup> yea, they refuse to hearken, and have not remembered Thy wonders that Thou hast done with them, and harden their neck and appoint a head, to turn back to their service, in their rebellion; and Thou art a God of pardons, gracious, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and hast not forsaken them. <sup>18</sup> `Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings, ¹⁹ and Thou, in Thine abundant mercies, hast not forsaken them in the wilderness—the pillar of the cloud hath not turned aside from off them by day, to lead them in the way, and the pillar of the fire by night, to give light to them and the way in which they go. ²⁰ `And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst, ²¹ and forty years Thou hast nourished them in a wilderness; they have not lacked; their garments have not worn out, and their feet have not swelled.

¹⁷ And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place. ¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust. ¹⁹ And they speak against God—they said: `Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?' <sup>20</sup> Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. `Also—bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?' ²¹ Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel, ²² For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation. ²³ And He commandeth clouds from above, Yea, doors of the heavens He hath opened. ²⁴ And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them. ²⁵ Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety. ²⁶ He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind, ²⁷ And He raineth on them flesh as dust, And as sand of the seas—winged fowl, ²⁸ And causeth it to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles. ²⁹ And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them. ³⁰ They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth, ³¹ And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend. ³² With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders. ³³ And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble. ³⁴ If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly, ³⁵ And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer. ³⁶ And—they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him, ³⁷ And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant. ³⁸ And He—the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury. ³⁹ And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on—and it returneth not.
⁴⁰ How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place? ⁴¹ Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited. ⁴² They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.

⁸ Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness, ⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work. ¹⁰ Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart—they! And they have not known My ways:' <sup>11</sup> Where I sware in Mine anger, `If they come in unto My rest—!'

¹³ They have hasted—forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel. ¹⁴ And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert. ¹⁵ And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul. ¹⁶ And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one. ¹⁷ Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram. ¹⁸ And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked. ¹⁹ They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image, ²⁰ And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs. ²¹ They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt, ²² Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph. ²³ And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying. ²⁴ And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word. ²⁵ And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah. ²⁶ And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness, ²⁷ And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands. ²⁸ And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead, ²⁹ And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

¹⁰ And I bring them out of the land of Egypt, And I bring them in unto the wilderness, ¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth—liveth by them. ¹² And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I am Jehovah their sanctifier. ¹³ And—rebel against me do the house of Israel in the wilderness, In My statutes they have not walked, And My judgments they have despised, Which the man who doth—liveth by them. And My sabbaths they have greatly polluted, And I say to pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. ¹⁴ And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them forth. ¹⁵ And also, I, I have lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, Not to bring them in to the land that I had given, Flowing with milk and honey, A beauty it is to all the lands, ¹⁶ Because against My judgments they did kick, And in My statutes they have not walked, And My sabbaths they have polluted, For after their idols their heart is going. ¹⁷ And Mine eye hath pity on them—against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.

²⁵ Sacrifices and offering did ye bring nigh to Me, In a wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.

³⁶ this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

³⁹ to whom our fathers did not wish to become obedient, but did thrust away, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him. ⁴¹ `And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their hands,
⁴² and God did turn, and did give them up to do service to the host of the heaven, according as it hath been written in the scroll of the prophets: Slain beasts and sacrifices did ye offer to Me forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? ⁴³ and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan—the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

¹ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, ² and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea; ³ and all the same spiritual food did eat, ⁴ and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ; ⁵ but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,
⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire. ⁷ Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;' ⁸ neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand; ⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish; ¹⁰ neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

⁷ Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear— ⁸ ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, ⁹ in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years; ¹⁰ wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

¹⁶ for certain having heard did provoke, but not all who did come out of Egypt through Moses; ¹⁷ but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ and to whom did He swear that they shall not enter into His rest, except to those who did not believe? — ¹⁹ and we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

⁵ And Abram taketh Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Charan; and they go out to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come in to the land of Canaan.

⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

⁵³ `To these is the land apportioned by inheritance, by the number of names; <sup>54</sup> to the many thou dost increase their inheritance, and to the few thou dost diminish their inheritance; to each according to his numbered ones is given his inheritance. <sup>55</sup> `Only by lot is the land apportioned, by the names of the tribes of their fathers they inherit; ⁵⁶ according to the lot is their inheritance apportioned between many and few.'

¹ `When Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, and He hath cast out many nations from thy presence, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and mighty than thou,

¹ And these are they of the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, caused to inherit;

¹⁰ And Joshua casteth for them a lot in Shiloh before Jehovah, and there Joshua apportioneth the land to the sons of Israel, according to their divisions.

⁵¹ These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, have caused to inherit by lot, in Shiloh, before Jehovah, at the opening of the tent of meeting; and they finish to apportion the land.

⁴ see, I have caused to fall to you these nations who are left for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan, (and all the nations which I cut off), and the great sea, the going in of the sun.

¹¹ `And ye pass over the Jordan, and come in unto Jericho, and fight against you do the possessors of Jericho—the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—and I give them into your hand.

²⁴ `And the sons come in, and possess the land, and Thou humblest before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and givest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure.

⁵⁵ And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

¹¹ Even Sihon king of the Amorite, And Og king of Bashan, And all kingdoms of Canaan.

⁴⁵ which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,

¹⁶ And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;

¹⁰ and the Spirit of Jehovah is upon him, and he judgeth Israel, and goeth out to battle, and Jehovah giveth unto his hand Chushan-Rishathaim king of Aram, and strong is his hand against Chushan-Rishathaim;

¹ And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

²⁰ and all Israel know, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, that Samuel is established for a prophet to Jehovah.

¹¹ `And Jehovah sendeth Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivereth you out of the hand of your enemies round about, and ye dwell confidently.

¹¹ even from the day that I appointed judges over My people Israel; and I have given rest to thee from all thine enemies, and Jehovah hath declared to thee that Jehovah doth make for thee a house.

²² Surely there hath not been made like this passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, even all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah;

⁶ whithersoever I have walked up and down among all Israel, a word spake I, with one of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed My people, saying, Why have ye not built for Me a house of cedars?

²⁴ and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

⁵ and say unto him, `Lo, thou hast become aged, and thy sons have not walked in thy ways; now, appoint to us a king, to judge us, like all the nations.'

¹ And Samuel taketh the vial of the oil, and poureth on his head, and kisseth him, and saith, `Is it not because Jehovah hath appointed thee over His inheritance for leader?

²¹ and he bringeth near the tribe of Benjamin by its families, and the family of Matri is captured, and Saul son of Kish is captured, and they seek him, and he hath not been found. ²² And they ask again at Jehovah, `Hath the man yet come hither?' and Jehovah saith, `Lo, he hath been hidden near the vessels.' ²³ And they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward. ²⁴ And Samuel saith unto all the people, `Have ye seen him on whom Jehovah hath fixed, for there is none like him among all the people?' And all the people shout, and say, `Let the king live!' ²⁵ And Samuel speaketh unto the people the right of the kingdom, and writeth in a book, and placeth before Jehovah; and Samuel sendeth all the people away, each to his house. ²⁶ And also Saul hath gone to his house, to Gibeah, and the force go with him whose heart God hath touched;

¹⁵ and all the people go to Gilgal, and cause Saul to reign there before Jehovah in Gilgal, and sacrifice there sacrifices of peace-offerings before Jehovah, and there Saul rejoiceth—and all the men of Israel—very greatly.

¹² `And ye see that Nahash king of the Bene-Ammon hath come against you, and ye say to me, Nay, but a king doth reign over us; and Jehovah your God is your king! <sup>13</sup> And, now, lo, the king whom ye have chosen—whom ye have asked! and lo, Jehovah hath placed over you a king. <sup>14</sup> `If ye fear Jehovah, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then ye do not provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and ye have been—both ye and the king who hath reigned over you—after Jehovah your God. ¹⁵ `And if ye do not hearken to the voice of Jehovah—then ye have provoked the mouth of Jehovah, and the hand of Jehovah hath been against you, and against your fathers.
<sup>16</sup> `Also now, station yourselves and see this great thing which Jehovah is doing before your eyes; ¹⁷ is it not wheat-harvest to-day? I call unto Jehovah, and He doth give voices and rain; and know ye and see that your evil is great which ye have done in the eyes of Jehovah, to ask for you a king.' ¹⁸ And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel; ¹⁹ and all the people say unto Samuel, `Pray for thy servants unto Jehovah thy God, and we do not die, for we have added to all our sins evil to ask for us a king.'

¹ And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Me did Jehovah send to anoint thee for king over His people, over Israel; and now, hearken to the voice of the words of Jehovah:

²⁵ and if ye really do evil, both ye and your king are consumed.'

¹³ And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age; ¹⁴ and, now, thy kingdom doth not stand, Jehovah hath sought for Himself a man according to His own heart, and Jehovah chargeth him for leader over His people, for thou hast not kept that which Jehovah commanded thee.'

¹¹ `I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he hath turned back from after Me, and My words he hath not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he crieth unto Jehovah all the night.

²³ for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'

²⁶ And Samuel saith unto Saul, `I do not turn back with thee; for thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth reject thee from being king over Israel.'

²⁸ And Samuel saith unto him, `Jehovah hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee to-day, and given it to thy neighbour who is better than thou;

¹ And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Till when art thou mourning for Saul, and I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I send thee unto Jesse the Beth-Lehemite, for I have seen among his sons for Myself a king.

¹³ And Samuel taketh the horn of oil, and anointeth him in the midst of his brethren, and prosper over David doth the Spirit of Jehovah from that day and onwards; and Samuel riseth and goeth to Ramath.

¹⁶ And Samuel saith, `And why dost thou ask me, and Jehovah hath turned aside from thee, and is thine enemy?

⁶ and Saul dieth, and three of his sons, and the bearer of his weapons, also all his men, on that day together.

⁴ And the men of Judah come, and anoint there David for king over the house of Judah; and they declare to David, saying, `The men of Jabesh-Gilead are they who buried Saul.'

³ And all the elders of Israel come unto the king, to Hebron, and king David maketh with them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah, and they anoint David for king over Israel. ⁴ A son of thirty years is David in his being king; forty years he hath reigned; ⁵ in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.

⁸ and now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David: `Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the comely place, from after the flock, to be leader over My people, over Israel;

¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

³ and he walketh in all the sins of his father, that he did before him, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father;

⁵ in that David did that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from all that He commanded him all days of his life—only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite;

⁴ `And Jehovah, God of Israel, doth fix on me out of all the house of my father to be for king over Israel to the age, for on Judah He hath fixed for a leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, on me, me He hath been pleased to make king over all Israel; ⁵ and out of all my sons—for many sons hath Jehovah given to me—He also fixeth on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel,

⁶ `And I—I have anointed My King, Upon Zion—My holy hill.'

⁷⁰ And He fixeth on David His servant, And taketh him from the folds of a flock, ⁷¹ From behind suckling ones He hath brought him in, To rule over Jacob His people, And over Israel His inheritance. ⁷² And he ruleth them according to the integrity of his heart, And by the skilfulness of his hands leadeth them!

¹⁹ Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people, ²⁰ I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. ²¹ With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. ²² An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. ²³ And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, ²⁴ And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. ²⁵ And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. ²⁶ He proclaimeth me: `Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' ²⁷ I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him. ²⁹ And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; ³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, ³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, ³³ And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not. ³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, ³⁶ His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me, ³⁷ As the moon it is established—to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

²¹ Also My covenant is broken with David My servant, So that he hath not a son reigning on his throne, And with the Levites the priests, My ministers.

²⁶ Also the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, I reject, Against taking from his seed rulers For the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, For I turn back to their captivity, and have pitied them.'

²³ And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them—my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd,

²⁴ And My servant David is king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them. ²⁵ And they have dwelt on the land that I gave to My servant, to Jacob, In which your fathers have dwelt, And they have dwelt on it, they and their sons, And their son's sons—unto the age, And David My servant is their prince—to the age.

⁵ Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.

¹⁰ Thou hast destroyed thyself, O Israel, But in Me is thy help, Where is thy king now—And he doth save thee in all thy cities? And thy judges of whom thou didst say, `Give to me a king and heads?' ¹¹ I give to thee a king in Mine anger, And I take away in My wrath.

⁴⁶ who found favour before God, and requested to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob;

⁸ and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,

⁴ by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated—not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to—that he had pleased God well,

¹² `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom;

¹¹ Jehovah hath sworn truth to David, He turneth not back from it: Of the fruit of thy body, I set on the throne for thee.

¹³ And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?

¹ And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.

¹⁰ And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been—honour!

¹¹ I—I am Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.

²¹ Declare ye, and bring near, Yea, they take counsel together, Who hath proclaimed this from of old? From that time hath declared it? Is it not I—Jehovah? And there is no other god besides Me, A God righteous and saving, there is none save Me.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ⁶ In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

¹⁵ In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth. ¹⁶ In those days is Judah saved, And Jerusalem doth dwell confidently, And this is he whom Jehovah proclaimeth to her: `Our Righteousness.'
<sup>17</sup> For thus said Jehovah: `Not cut off to David is one sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

¹¹ In that day I raise the tabernacle of David, that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches, And its ruins I do raise up, And I have built it up as in days of old.

⁹ Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous—and saved is He, Afflicted—and riding on an ass, And on a colt—a son of she-asses.

¹ A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

²¹ and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

⁹ and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'

⁴² saying, `What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?' They say to him, `Of David.'

³¹ and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus; ³² he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father, ³³ and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.'

⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant,

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people— ¹¹ because there was born to you to-day a Saviour—who is Christ the Lord—in the city of David,

⁴² and said to the woman—`No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world—the Christ.'

⁴² Did not the Writing say, that out of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem—the village where David was—the Christ doth come?'

³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses; ³³ at the right hand then of God having been exalted—also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father—he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear; ³⁴ for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, ³⁵ till I make thy foes thy footstool; ³⁶ assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him—this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

²⁶ to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

¹² and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

³⁰ and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree; ³¹ this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

³² `And we to you do proclaim good news—that the promise made unto the fathers,

³ concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

²⁶ and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

⁴ to Titus—true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

¹⁰ not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³ waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

³ for we were once—also we—thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious—hating one another; ⁴ and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear ⁵ (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

¹ Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

¹¹ for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

² to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,

¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

¹⁴ And we—we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son—Saviour of the world;

²⁵ to the only wise God our Saviour, is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.

¹⁶ `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!

¹ And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, ² and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,' <sup>3</sup> for this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths.' ⁴ And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field. ⁵ Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan, ⁶ and they were baptized in the Jordan by him, confessing their sins.
⁷ And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath? <sup>8</sup> bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, <sup>9</sup> and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, <sup>10</sup> and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast. <sup>11</sup> `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

² As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' — <sup>3</sup> `A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye his paths,' — ⁴ John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation—to remission of sins, ⁵ and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ⁶ And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field, ⁷ and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come—who is mightier than I—after me, of whom I am not worthy—having stooped down—to loose the latchet of his sandals; ⁸ I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'

⁷⁶ And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

² Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests—there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness, ³ and he came to all the region round the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of reformation—to remission of sins, ⁴ as it hath been written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying, `A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight make ye His paths; <sup>5</sup> every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways; <sup>6</sup> and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.' <sup>7</sup> Then said he to the multitudes coming forth to be baptised by him, `Brood of vipers! who did prompt you to flee from the coming wrath? ⁸ make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father—Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham; ⁹ and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.' ¹⁰ And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' <sup>11</sup> and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats—let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals—in like manner let him do.' ¹² And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' <sup>13</sup> and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.' ¹⁴ And questioning him also were those warring, saying, `And we, what shall we do?' and he said unto them, `Do violence to no one, nor accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.'
¹⁵ And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ; ¹⁶ John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals—he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire; ¹⁷ whose winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.' ¹⁸ And, therefore, indeed with many other things, exhorting, he was proclaiming good news to the people,

⁶ There came a man—having been sent from God—whose name is John, ⁷ this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him; ⁸ that one was not the Light, but—that he might testify about the Light.

¹⁵ John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;' ¹⁶ and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace; ¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come; ¹⁸ God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father—he did declare.

²⁵ there arose then a question from the disciples of John with some Jews about purifying, ²⁶ and they came unto John, and said to him, `Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou didst testify, lo, this one is baptizing, and all are coming unto him.' <sup>27</sup> John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; ²⁸ ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; ²⁹ he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled. ³⁰ `Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less; <sup>31</sup> he who from above is coming is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaketh; he who from the heaven is coming is above all. <sup>32</sup> `And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth; ³³ he who is receiving his testimony did seal that God is true; ³⁴ for he whom God sent, the sayings of God he speaketh; for not by measure doth God give the Spirit; ³⁵ the Father doth love the Son, and all things hath given into his hand; ³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

³³ ye have sent unto John, and he hath testified to the truth. ³⁴ `But I do not receive testimony from man, but these things I say that ye may be saved; <sup>35</sup> he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light. <sup>36</sup> `But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

²² beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

³⁷ ye—ye have known; —the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;

³ and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.' ⁴ And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;'

¹¹ `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

⁷ and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come—who is mightier than I—after me, of whom I am not worthy—having stooped down—to loose the latchet of his sandals;

¹⁶ And Herod having heard, said—`He whom I did behead—John—this is he; he was raised out of the dead.' <sup>17</sup> For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her, <sup>18</sup> for John said to Herod—`It is not lawful to thee to have the wife of thy brother;' ¹⁹ and Herodias was having a quarrel with him, and was willing to kill him, and was not able, ²⁰ for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly. ²¹ And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee, ²² and the daughter of that Herodias having come in, and having danced, and having pleased Herod and those reclining (at meat) with him, the king said to the damsel, `Ask of me whatever thou wilt, and I will give to thee,' <sup>23</sup> and he sware to her—`Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee—unto the half of my kingdom.' ²⁴ And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;' ²⁵ and having come in immediately with haste unto the king, she asked, saying, `I will that thou mayest give me presently, upon a plate, the head of John the Baptist.' ²⁶ And the king—made very sorrowful—because of the oaths and of those reclining (at meat) with him, would not put her away, ²⁷ and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought, ²⁸ and he having gone, beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head upon a plate, and did give it to the damsel, and the damsel did give it to her mother;

¹⁵ And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ; ¹⁶ John answered, saying to all, `I indeed with water do baptise you, but he cometh who is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to loose the latchet of his sandals—he shall baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire;

²⁰ and he confessed and did not deny, and confessed—`I am not the Christ.' <sup>21</sup> And they questioned him, `What then? Elijah art thou?' and he saith, `I am not.' —`The prophet art thou?' and he answered, `No.' <sup>22</sup> They said then to him, `Who art thou, that we may give an answer to those sending us? what dost thou say concerning thyself?' ²³ He said, `I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

²⁶ John answered them, saying, `I baptize with water, but in midst of you he hath stood whom ye have not known, this one it is who is coming after me, who hath been before me, ²⁷ of whom I am not worthy that I may loose the cord of his sandal.'

²⁹ on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

³⁴ and I have seen, and have testified, that this is the Son of God.'

³⁶ and having looked on Jesus walking, he saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God;'

²⁷ John answered and said, `A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven; ²⁸ ye yourselves do testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but, that I am having been sent before him; ²⁹ he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

¹⁸ `He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;' <sup>29</sup> a vessel, therefore, was placed full of vinegar, and they having filled a sponge with vinegar, and having put it around a hyssop stalk, did put it to his mouth; <sup>30</sup> when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.

³⁶ for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

⁴ And Paul said, `John, indeed, did baptize with a baptism of reformation, saying to the people that in him who is coming after him they should believe—that is, in the Christ—Jesus;'

²⁴ but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus—Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

⁷ the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

⁷ `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

⁷ `Art not Thou our God? Thou hast dispossessed the inhabitants of this land from before Thy people Israel, and dost give it to the seed of Abraham Thy friend to the age,

⁶ O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

⁸ —And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

¹³ I have brought near My righteousness, It is not far off, And My salvation—it doth not tarry, And I have given in Zion salvation, To Israel My glory!

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, Who are called by the name of Israel, And from the waters of Judah came out, Who are swearing by the name of Jehovah, And of the God of Israel make mention, Not in truth nor in righteousness.

¹ Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock—ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit—ye have been digged. ² Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah—she bringeth you forth, For—one—I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.

⁹ and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

⁶ and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,

⁴⁷ and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

²⁰ `Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

¹⁵ and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people—say on.' <sup>16</sup> And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken: ¹⁷ the God of this people Israel did choose our fathers, and the people He did exalt in their sojourning in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm did He bring them out of it;

⁴³ and the synagogue having been dismissed, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes did follow Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were persuading them to remain in the grace of God.

¹⁷ she having followed Paul and us, was crying, saying, `These men are servants of the Most High God, who declare to us a way of salvation;'

²⁸ `Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

¹⁶ for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

¹⁹ how that God was in Christ—a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation, ²⁰ in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;' ²¹ for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

⁵ because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

²⁰ As for you, ye devised against me evil—God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

²⁹ And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

⁵⁴ how then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?' ⁵⁵ In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, `As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me; ⁵⁶ but all this hath come to pass, that the Writings of the prophets may be fulfilled;' then all the disciples, having left him, fled.

³⁴ and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'

²⁰ how also the chief priests and our rulers did deliver him up to a judgment of death, and crucified him;

²⁴ and certain of those with us went away unto the tomb, and found as even the women said, and him they saw not.' ²⁵ And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake! ²⁶ Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?' ²⁷ and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.' ⁴⁵ Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

²⁸ Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

²¹ but all these things will they do to you, because of my name, because they have not known Him who sent me;

³ and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of him shall not be broken;' <sup>37</sup> and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'

¹⁷ `And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did it, as also your rulers;

¹⁴ and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, ¹⁵ and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people—say on.'

²² `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come, ²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

²³ and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

⁸ which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

¹⁴ but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn—which in Christ is being made useless—

⁴ in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

¹³ who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

¹⁹ And as he is sitting on the tribunal, his wife sent unto him, saying, `Nothing—to thee and to that righteous one, for many things did I suffer to-day in a dream because of him.'

²² Pilate saith to them, `What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?' They all say to him, `Let be crucified!' ²³ And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?' and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.' ²⁴ And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye—ye shall see;' <sup>25</sup> and all the people answering said, `His blood is upon us, and upon our children!'

¹³ and they again cried out, `Crucify him.' <sup>14</sup> And Pilate said to them, `Why—what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;'
¹⁵ and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus—having scourged him —that he might be crucified.

⁴ And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;' <sup>5</sup> and they were the more urgent, saying—`He doth stir up the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea—having begun from Galilee—unto this place.'

¹⁴ said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him; ¹⁵ no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him; ¹⁶ having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

²¹ but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.' <sup>22</sup> And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him .' ²³ And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing, ²⁴ and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done, ²⁵ and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

³⁸ Pilate saith to him, `What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, `I do find no fault in him;

⁴ Pilate, therefore, again went forth without, and saith to them, `Lo, I do bring him to you without, that ye may know that in him I find no fault;'

¹² From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.' <sup>13</sup> Pilate, therefore, having heard this word, brought Jesus without—and he sat down upon the tribunal—to a place called, `Pavement,' and in Hebrew, Gabbatha; ¹⁴ and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, `Lo, your king!' <sup>15</sup> and they cried out, `Take away, take away, crucify him;' Pilate saith to them, `Your king shall I crucify?' the chief priests answered, `We have no king except Caesar.'
¹⁶ Then, therefore, he delivered him up to them, that he may be crucified, and they took Jesus and led him away,

¹³ `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him, ¹⁴ and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man—a murderer—to be granted to you,

⁵⁷ And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus, ⁵⁸ he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back. ⁵⁹ And having taken the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen, ⁶⁰ and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;

⁴⁵ and having known it from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph. ⁴⁶ And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

³¹ And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed—that have been written through the prophets—to the Son of Man, ³² for he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon, ³³ and having scourged they shall put him to death, and on the third day he shall rise again.'

⁵³ and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.

⁴⁴ and he said to them, `These are the words that I spake unto you, being yet with you, that it behoveth to be fulfilled all the things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, about me.'

²⁸ After this, Jesus knowing that all things now have been finished, that the Writing may be fulfilled, saith, `I thirst;'

³⁰ when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.

³⁶ For these things came to pass, that the Writing may be fulfilled, `A bone of him shall not be broken;' <sup>37</sup> and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'
³⁸ And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea—being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews—ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus, ³⁹ and Nicodemus also came—who came unto Jesus by night at the first—bearing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, as it were, a hundred pounds. ⁴⁰ They took, therefore, the body of Jesus, and bound it with linen clothes with the spices, according as it was the custom of the Jews to prepare for burial; ⁴¹ and there was in the place where he was crucified a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was yet laid; ⁴² there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.

²³ this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified—ye did slay;

²⁸ to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

³⁰ and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

⁴ and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

⁶ he is not here, for he rose, as he said; come, see the place where the Lord was lying;

¹⁹ Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

¹⁷ `Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

²⁴ whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

³² `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

¹³ `The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release him,

¹⁵ and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

¹⁰ be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

⁴⁰ `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest,

³¹ because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

²⁰ And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep—in the blood of an age-during covenant—our Lord Jesus,

¹⁶ And the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mount where Jesus appointed them,

¹² And after these things, to two of them, as they are going into a field, walking, he was manifested in another form, ¹³ and they having gone, told to the rest; not even them did they believe.
¹⁴ Afterwards, as they are reclining (at meat), he was manifested to the eleven, and did reproach their unbelief and stiffness of heart, because they believed not those having seen him being raised;

³⁶ and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace—to you;' <sup>37</sup> and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit. <sup>38</sup> And he said to them, `Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts? ³⁹ see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.' ⁴⁰ And having said this, he shewed to them the hands and the feet, ⁴¹ and while they are not believing from the joy, and wondering, he said to them, `Have ye anything here to eat?' ⁴² and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

⁴⁸ and ye—ye are witnesses of these things.

²⁷ and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.

¹⁹ It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, `Peace to you;' <sup>20</sup> and this having said, he shewed them his hands and side; the disciples, therefore, rejoiced, having seen the Lord. <sup>21</sup> Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;' ²² and this having said, he breathed on them, and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit; <sup>23</sup> if of any ye may loose the sins, they are loosed to them; if of any ye may retain, they have been retained.' <sup>24</sup> And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came; <sup>25</sup> the other disciples, therefore, said to him, `We have seen the Lord;' and he said to them, `If I may not see in his hands the mark of the nails, and may put my finger to the mark of the nails, and may put my hand to his side, I will not believe.'
<sup>26</sup> And after eight days, again were his disciples within, and Thomas with them; Jesus cometh, the doors having been shut, and he stood in the midst, and said, `Peace to you!' ²⁷ then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put it to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.' <sup>28</sup> And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;' ²⁹ Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'

¹ After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus: ² There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. ³ Simon Peter saith to them, `I go away to fish;' they say to him, `We go—we also—with thee;' they went forth and entered into the boat immediately, and on that night they caught nothing. ⁴ And morning being now come, Jesus stood at the shore, yet indeed the disciples did not know that it is Jesus; ⁵ Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?' <sup>6</sup> they answered him, `No;' and he said to them, `Cast the net at the right side of the boat, and ye shall find;' they cast, therefore, and no longer were they able to draw it, from the multitude of the fishes. <sup>7</sup> That disciple, therefore, whom Jesus was loving saith to Peter, `The Lord it is!' Simon Peter, therefore, having heard that it is the Lord, did gird on the outer coat, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea; ⁸ and the other disciples came by the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but as it were about two hundred cubits off, dragging the net of the fishes; ⁹ when, therefore, they came to the land, they behold a fire of coals lying, and a fish lying on it, and bread. ¹⁰ Jesus saith to them, `Bring ye from the fishes that ye caught now;' <sup>11</sup> Simon Peter went up, and drew the net up on the land, full of great fishes, an hundred fifty and three, and though they were so many, the net was not rent. <sup>12</sup> Jesus saith to them, `Come ye, dine;' and none of the disciples was venturing to inquire of him, `Who art thou?' knowing that it is the Lord; ¹³ Jesus, therefore, doth come and take the bread and give to them, and the fish in like manner; ¹⁴ this is now a third time Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having been raised from the dead.

³ to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

⁸ but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

¹¹ who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'

³² and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

³⁹ and we—we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, —whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

⁴¹ not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God—to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

⁵ and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, ⁶ afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep; ⁷ afterwards he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us, ⁴ God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

³ And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

¹⁸ and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

⁴ and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

¹⁰ The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his is the obedience of peoples.

¹⁵ `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee—unto him ye hearken;

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

⁶ For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. ⁷ To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

⁹ On a high mountain get thee up, O Zion, Proclaiming tidings, Lift up with power thy voice, O Jerusalem, proclaiming tidings, Lift up, fear not, say to cities of Judah, `Lo, your God.'

²⁷ First to Zion, Behold, behold them, And to Jerusalem one proclaiming tidings I give,

⁷ How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, `Reigned hath thy God.'

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.

⁵ Lo, days are coming—an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have raised to David a righteous shoot, And a king hath reigned and acted wisely, And done judgment and righteousness in the earth.

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. ²⁵ And thou dost know, and dost consider wisely, from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem till Messiah the Leader is seven weeks, and sixty and two weeks: the broad place hath been built again, and the rampart, even in the distress of the times. ²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations.

² And thou, Beth-Lehem Ephratah, Little to be among the chiefs of Judah! From thee to Me he cometh forth—to be ruler in Israel, And his comings forth are of old, From the days of antiquity.

⁷ And I have shaken all the nations, And they have come to the desire of all the nations, And I have filled this house with honour, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹² and hast spoken unto him, saying: Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: Lo, a man! A Shoot—is his name, And from his place he doth shoot up, And he hath built the temple of Jehovah.

¹ In that day there is a fountain opened To the house of David And to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, For sin and for impurity.

⁷ Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero—My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones.

¹ Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

² And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness—and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.

¹⁹ And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

⁵⁴ He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness, ⁵⁵ As He spake unto our fathers, To Abraham and to his seed—to the age.'

⁶⁸ `Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people, ⁶⁹ And did raise an horn of salvation to us, In the house of David His servant, ⁷⁰ As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, Which have been from the age; ⁷¹ Salvation from our enemies, And out of the hand of all hating us, ⁷² To do kindness with our fathers, And to be mindful of His holy covenant, ⁷³ An oath that He sware to Abraham our father,

¹⁰ And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people—

¹⁹ reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

⁴² every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news—Jesus the Christ.

³⁸ `Let it therefore be known to you, men, brethren, that through this one to you is the forgiveness of sins declared,

⁶ and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

¹³ For not through law is the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises,

¹⁶ and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ; ¹⁷ and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, ¹⁸ for if by law be the inheritance, it is no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant it .

⁷ I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

⁵ For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art—I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?' ⁶ and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him—all messengers of God;'

⁵ so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, ¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee, ¹⁶ and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

⁵ For—not so is my house with God; For—a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For—all my salvation, and all desire, For—He hath not caused it to spring up.

² For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.' <sup>3</sup> I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant: <sup>4</sup> `Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David—that are stedfast.

²³ And have raised up over them one shepherd, And he hath fed them—my servant David, He doth feed them, and he is their shepherd, ²⁴ And I, Jehovah, I am their God, And My servant David prince in their midst, I, Jehovah, have spoken.

⁸ In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God—As a messenger of Jehovah—before them.

³⁷ but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

⁹ knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

¹⁰ For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

⁹ And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit.

⁴⁸ Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

²⁶ and it hath been divinely told him by the Holy Spirit—not to see death before he may see the Christ of the Lord.

³⁶ he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

⁵¹ verily, verily, I say to you, If any one may keep my word, death he may not see—to the age.'

²⁷ because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption; ²⁸ Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance. ²⁹ `Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day; ³⁰ a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne, ³¹ having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

³⁶ for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption, ³⁷ but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

⁵ By faith Enoch was translated—not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to—that he had pleased God well,

¹⁹ by the sweat of thy face thou dost eat bread till thy return unto the ground, for out of it hast thou been taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust thou turnest back.'

¹⁰ And David lieth down with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David,

² even in time past, even in Saul's being king, it is thou who art taking out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah thy God saith to thee: Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art leader over My people Israel.'

² and David saith to all the assembly of Israel, `If unto you it be good, and from Jehovah our God it hath broken forth—we send unto our brethren, those left in all the lands of Israel, and with them the priests and the Levites, in the cities of their suburbs, and they are gathered unto us, ³ and we bring round the ark of our God unto us, for we sought Him not in the days of Saul.' ⁴ And all the assembly say to do so, for the thing is right in the eyes of all the people.

¹² and saith to them, `Ye are heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto the place I have prepared for it; ¹³ because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.' ¹⁴ And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel; ¹⁵ and sons of the Levites bear the ark of God, as Moses commanded, according to the word of Jehovah, on their shoulder, with staves, above them. ¹⁶ And David saith to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy.

²⁵ And it is David, and the elders of Israel, and the heads of the thousands, who are going to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the house of Obed-Edom with joy; ²⁶ and it cometh to pass, in God's helping the Levites bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrifice seven bullocks and seven rams. ²⁷ And David is wrapped in an upper robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who are bearing the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah head of the burden of the singers; and on David is an Ephod of linen. ²⁸ And all Israel are bringing up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of a cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding with psalteries and harps, ²⁹ and it cometh to pass, the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is entering in unto the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul is looking through the window, and seeth king David dancing and playing, and despiseth him in her heart.

¹¹ and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom,

¹⁴ And David reigneth over all Israel, and he is doing judgment and righteousness to all his people,

¹ And David saith, `This is the house of Jehovah God, and this the altar for burnt-offering for Israel.' <sup>2</sup> And David saith to gather the sojourners who are in the land of Israel, and appointeth hewers to hew hewn-stones to build a house of God. <sup>3</sup> And iron in abundance for nails for leaves of the gates, and for couplings, hath David prepared, and brass in abundance—there is no weighing. <sup>4</sup> And cedar-trees even without number, for the Zidonians and the Tyrians brought in cedar-trees in abundance to David. <sup>5</sup> And David saith, `Solomon my son is a youth and tender, and the house to be built to Jehovah is to be made exceedingly great, for name and for beauty to all the lands; let me prepare, I pray Thee, for it;' and David prepareth in abundance before his death.
⁶ And he calleth for Solomon his son, and chargeth him to build a house to Jehovah, God of Israel, ⁷ and David saith to Solomon his son, `As for me, it hath been with my heart to build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, <sup>8</sup> and the word of Jehovah is against me, saying, Blood in abundance thou hast shed, and great wars thou hast made: thou dost not build a house to My name, for much blood thou hast shed to the earth before Me. <sup>9</sup> `Lo, a son is born to thee; he is a man of rest, and I have given rest to him from all his enemies round about, for Solomon is his name, and peace and quietness I give unto Israel in his days; ¹⁰ he doth build a house to My name, and he is to Me for a son, and I am to him for a father, and I have established the throne of his kingdom over Israel unto the age. ¹¹ `Now, my son, Jehovah is with thee, and thou hast prospered, and hast built the house of Jehovah thy God, as He spake concerning thee. <sup>12</sup> Only, Jehovah give to thee wisdom and understanding, and charge thee concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah thy God; <sup>13</sup> then thou dost prosper, if thou dost observe to do the statutes and the judgments that Jehovah charged Moses with concerning Israel; be strong and courageous; do not fear, nor be cast down. <sup>14</sup> `And lo, in mine affliction, I have prepared for the house of Jehovah of gold talents a hundred thousand, and of silver a thousand thousand talents; and of brass and of iron there is no weighing, for in abundance it hath been, and wood and stones I have prepared, and to them thou dost add. ¹⁵ `And with thee in abundance are workmen, hewers and artificers of stone and of wood, and every skilful man for every work. <sup>16</sup> To the gold, to the silver, and to the brass, and to the iron, there is no number; arise and do, and Jehovah is with thee.'
<sup>17</sup> And David giveth charge to all heads of Israel to give help to Solomon his son, <sup>18</sup> `Is not Jehovah your God with you? yea, He hath given rest to you round about, for He hath given into my hand the inhabitants of the land, and subdued hath been the land before His people. ¹⁹ `Now, give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God, and rise and build the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, to the house that is built to the name of Jehovah.'

³¹ and Solomon lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David his father, and reign doth Rehoboam his son in his stead.

¹⁶ and Rehoboam lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the city of David, and reign doth Abijah his son in his stead.

¹ And Jehoshaphat lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigneth in his stead.

²³ and Uzziah lieth with his fathers, and they bury him with his fathers, in the field of the burying-place that the kings have, for they said, `He is a leper;' and reign doth Jotham his son in his stead.

¹⁴ To corruption I have called: —`Thou art my father.' `My mother' and `my sister' —to the worm.

²⁶ And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God: ²⁷ Whom I—I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

²⁶ Together—on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.

¹⁴ As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

³⁹ Jesus saith, `Take ye away the stone;' the sister of him who hath died—Martha—saith to him, `Sir, already he stinketh, for he is four days dead;'

⁶⁰ and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.

²² and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

²⁷ for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

⁶ afterwards he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain till now, and certain also did fall asleep;

¹⁸ then, also, those having fallen asleep in Christ did perish;

⁴² So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; ⁴³ it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴ it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

⁵³ for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality; ⁵⁴ and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up—to victory;

¹³ And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

³⁰ and God did raise him out of the dead,

¹ By David. —An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered.

⁴ But with Thee is forgiveness, that Thou mayest be feared.

⁷ Israel doth wait on Jehovah, For with Jehovah is kindness, And abundant with Him is redemption.

³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

³² Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

¹⁸ And lo—not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'

²⁴ `Seventy weeks are determined for thy people, and for thy holy city, to shut up the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover iniquity, and to bring in righteousness age-during, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.

¹⁸ Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He—He delighteth in kindness. ¹⁹ He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins. ²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

³⁸ and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

³¹ this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

⁴³ to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

¹⁸ And the all things are of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation,

⁷ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

¹⁴ in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

⁶ and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

¹² because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' — ¹³ in the saying `new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

⁹ which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, ¹⁰ only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances—till the time of reformation imposed upon them . ¹¹ And Christ being come, chief priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands—that is, not of this creation— ¹² neither through blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, did enter in once into the holy places, age-during redemption having obtained; ¹³ for if the blood of bulls, and goats, and ashes of an heifer, sprinkling those defiled, doth sanctify to the purifying of the flesh, ¹⁴ how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

²² and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

⁴ for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. ⁵ Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, `Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me, <sup>6</sup> in burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offerings, Thou didst not delight,
<sup>7</sup> then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;' <sup>8</sup> saying above—`Sacrifice, and offering, and burnt-offerings, and concerning sin-offering Thou didst not will, nor delight in,' —which according to the law are offered— ⁹ then he said, `Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish; <sup>10</sup> in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once, <sup>11</sup> and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins. <sup>12</sup> And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered—to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, — <sup>13</sup> as to the rest, expecting till He may place his enemies as his footstool, <sup>14</sup> for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified; <sup>15</sup> and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before, <sup>16</sup> `This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,' ¹⁷ and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;' ¹⁸ and where forgiveness of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

¹ My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, ² and he—he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

¹² I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

²⁰ If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! —it declareth me perverse.

⁴ And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure—born of a woman?

² And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

¹¹ Of the labour of his soul he seeth—he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.

³² Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day of My laying hold on their hand, To bring them out of the land of Egypt, In that they made void My covenant, And I ruled over them—an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴ Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

²⁵ And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

²⁸ And he said to him, `Rightly thou didst answer; this do, and thou shalt live.'

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁷ for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

²⁴ `Verily, verily, I say to you—He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

¹⁹ And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God did set forth a mercy seat, through the faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the bygone sins in the forbearance of God— ²⁶ for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who is of the faith of Jesus. ²⁷ Where then is the boasting? it was excluded; by what law? of works? no, but by a law of faith: ²⁸ therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law. ²⁹ The God of Jews only is He, and not also of nations? ³⁰ yes, also of nations; since one is God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

⁵ and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned—to righteousness: ⁶ even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works: ⁷ `Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered; ⁸ happy the man to whom the Lord may not reckon sin.'

¹⁵ for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither is transgression.

²⁴ but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned—to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

¹ Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

⁹ much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

²⁰ And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

⁹ And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; ¹⁰ and the command that is for life, this was found by me for death; ¹¹ for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay me;

¹ There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

³⁰ and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.
³¹ What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us? ³³ Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God is He that is declaring righteous, ³⁴ who is he that is condemning? Christ is He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God—who also doth intercede for us.

³¹ and Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, at a law of righteousness did not arrive;

⁴ For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

¹⁰ for with the heart doth one believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

¹¹ And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

¹⁹ for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

⁸ and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham—

¹⁰ for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law—to do them,' <sup>11</sup> and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, because `The righteous by faith shall live;' ¹² and the law is not by faith, but—`The man who did them shall live in them.'

²¹ the law, then, is against the promises of God? —let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness, ²² but the Writing did shut up the whole under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ may be given to those believing. ²³ And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, ²⁴ so that the law became our child-conductor—to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous, ²⁵ and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

³ and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

⁶ according to zeal persecuting the assembly! according to righteousness that is in law becoming blameless! ⁷ But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; ⁸ yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,
⁹ not having my righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith of Christ—the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

¹⁹ (for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

⁹ which is a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving, ¹⁰ only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances—till the time of reformation imposed upon them .

⁴ for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

¹¹ and every priest, indeed, hath stood daily serving, and the same sacrifices many times offering, that are never able to take away sins.

¹⁴ Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

⁵ Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.

² And who is bearing the day of his coming? And who is standing in his appearing? For he is as fire of a refiner, And as soap of a fuller.

¹ For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

⁹ and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have—Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, ¹⁰ and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast. ¹¹ `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire, ¹² whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

³ how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving—to be spoken through the Lord—by those having heard was confirmed to us,

¹² See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

²⁵ See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking—much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

²⁴ Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, ²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, ²⁷ When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. ²⁸ Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. ²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen. ³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof, ³¹ And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled. ³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

²⁴ Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

¹⁴ Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that is in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.' <sup>16</sup> Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: `Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone—a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste. ¹⁷ And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow. ¹⁸ And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place. ¹⁹ From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report. ²⁰ For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in. ²¹ For as at mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As at the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work—strange is His work, And to do His deed—strange is His deed.' ²² And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is for all the land.

¹⁵ And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.

²⁶ And after the sixty and two weeks, cut off is Messiah, and the city and the holy place are not his, the Leader who hath come doth destroy the people; and its end is with a flood, and till the end is war, determined are desolations. ²⁷ And he hath strengthened a covenant with many—one week, and in the midst of the week he causeth sacrifice and present to cease, and by the wing of abominations he is making desolate, even till the consummation, and that which is determined is poured on the desolate one.'

¹⁰ And Jesus having heard, did wonder, and said to those following, `Verily I say to you, not even in Israel so great faith have I found; ¹¹ and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,

⁴¹ They say to him, `Evil men—he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.' <sup>42</sup> Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes. ⁴³ `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit; ⁴⁴ and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

⁷ `And the king having heard, was wroth, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire; <sup>8</sup> then saith he to his servants, The marriage-feast indeed is ready, and those called were not worthy, <sup>9</sup> be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts. <sup>10</sup> `And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.

³⁴ `Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city; <sup>35</sup> that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar: <sup>36</sup> verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation. <sup>37</sup> `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will. ³⁸ Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

⁴² saying—`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes. <sup>43</sup> `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side, ⁴⁴ and lay thee low, and thy children within thee, and they shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou didst not know the time of thy inspection.'

²⁰ `And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation; <sup>21</sup> then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her; <sup>22</sup> because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written. <sup>23</sup> `And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people; ²⁴ and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled. ²⁵ `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring; ²⁶ men fainting at heart from fear, and expectation of the things coming on the world, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

³⁵ And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'

²³ and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'

⁴⁷ for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations—for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'

⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened, ⁸ according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' —unto this very day, <sup>9</sup> and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them; ¹⁰ let their eyes be darkened—not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.' ¹¹ I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy; ¹² and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them? ¹³ For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify; ¹⁴ if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

³ that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words — ⁴ in regard to which ye are able, reading it, to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ, ⁵ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit— ⁶ that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news, ⁷ of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power; ⁸ to me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ,

²⁶ the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints, ²⁷ to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!

²⁸ any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die, ²⁹ of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite? ³⁰ for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance is Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' —

¹⁷ because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

⁶ not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them—they, they do hearken unto thee,

²¹ `Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

³⁰ and many first shall be last, and last first.

³³ at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

¹⁵ `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen—ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, ³² and the truth shall make you free.'

⁵ `I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything; <sup>6</sup> if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned; <sup>7</sup> if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you. <sup>8</sup> `In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.
⁹ According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love; ¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

⁵ And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

²³ who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

⁵⁰ And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

³ long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.

²² confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

¹⁴ and a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, worshipping God, was hearing, whose heart the Lord did open to attend to the things spoken by Paul;

⁴ And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

³⁴ and certain men having cleaved to him, did believe, among whom is also Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman, by name Damaris, and others with them.

⁸ And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God, ⁹ and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

²⁴ being declared righteous freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

² through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

²¹ that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

⁶ and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

¹¹ having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

¹ And working together also we call upon you that ye receive not in vain the grace of God—

¹ In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free—stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

⁴ ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift,

¹⁶ but to what we have come—by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

¹ So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

²³ if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that is under the heaven, of which I became—I Paul—a ministrant.

²⁸ whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

³ that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set, ⁴ for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known it; ⁵ because of this also, I, no longer forbearing, did send to know your faith, lest he who is tempting did tempt you, and in vain might be our labour.

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

¹¹ and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, ¹² that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

¹⁵ looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

⁹ with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for it is good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;

¹² Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few words I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

¹⁴ wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

¹⁷ Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, ¹⁸ and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

⁹ every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

³ Thy people are free-will gifts in the day of Thy strength, in the honours of holiness, From the womb, from the morning, Thou hast the dew of thy youth.

⁸ Who are these—as a thick cloud they fly, And as doves unto their windows?

¹¹ and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.

²⁹ And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'

⁴ And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹¹ O Jehovah, high is Thy hand—they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire—Thine adversaries, consumeth them.

¹⁸ for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.

²⁵ `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing, <sup>26</sup> and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be, <sup>27</sup> and he said to him—Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back. <sup>28</sup> `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him; ²⁹ and he answering said to the father, Lo, so many years I do serve thee, and never thy command did I transgress, and to me thou didst never give a kid, that with my friends I might make merry; ³⁰ but when thy son—this one who did devour thy living with harlots—came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

¹⁷ And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him—being the sect of the Sadducees—were filled with zeal,

⁹ and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen, ¹⁰ and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit with which he was speaking;

⁵ And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

⁶ and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

⁹ and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

³ for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

⁵ Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

⁴ in which they think it strange—your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

¹⁰ and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

⁹ And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it is a stiff-necked people; ¹⁰ and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'

²¹ They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

¹ The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.

⁵ And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.) ⁶ And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'
<sup>7</sup> Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.' ⁸ Thus said Jehovah: `In a time of good pleasure I answered thee, And in a day of salvation I helped thee, And I keep thee, and give thee, For a covenant of the people, To establish the earth, To cause to inherit desolate inheritances.

⁵ Lo, a nation thou knowest not, thou callest, And a nation who know thee not unto thee do run, For the sake of Jehovah thy God, And for the Holy One of Israel, Because He hath beautified thee.

¹³ and if indeed the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it; and if it be not worthy, let your peace turn back to you. ¹⁴ `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet, ¹⁵ verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

⁴³ `Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;

⁶ and the rest, having laid hold on his servants, did insult and slay them .

¹⁶ and he said to him, `A certain man made a great supper, and called many, <sup>17</sup> and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready. <sup>18</sup> `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. ¹⁹ `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused: <sup>20</sup> and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come. <sup>21</sup> `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither. ²² `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room. <sup>23</sup> `And the lord said unto the servant, Go forth to the ways and hedges, and constrain to come in, that my house may be filled; ²⁴ for I say to you, that none of those men who have been called shall taste of my supper.'

¹¹ to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

²² ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

¹³ And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering—they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been—

²⁹ `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word, ³⁰ in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.' ³¹ And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom,

⁵¹ `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers—also ye;

⁵ And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ; ⁶ and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, `Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

²⁰ but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

¹⁰ and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, ⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen.

¹⁹ But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,' <sup>20</sup> and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;' ²¹ and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

¹¹ I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy; ¹² and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them? ¹³ For to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

¹⁹ and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, ²⁰ for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely—as it behoveth me to speak.

¹⁴ and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold—fearlessly to speak the word.

³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the mouth of the sword, were made powerful out of infirmities, became strong in battle, caused to give way camps of the aliens.

²⁷ Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations, ²⁸ For to Jehovah is the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations. ²⁹ And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.

² For the knowledge in earth of Thy way, among all nations of Thy salvation. ³ Praise Thee do peoples, O God, Praise Thee do peoples, all of them. ⁴ Rejoice and sing do nations, For Thou judgest peoples uprightly, And peoples on earth comfortest. Selah. ⁵ Confess Thee do peoples, O God, Confess Thee do peoples—all of them. ⁶ Earth hath given her increase, God doth bless us—our God, ⁷ God doth bless us, and all ends of earth fear Him!

⁷ Flourish in his days doth the righteous, And abundance of peace till the moon is not. ⁸ And he ruleth from sea unto sea, And from the river unto the ends of earth.

¹ Sing to Jehovah a new song, Sing to Jehovah all the earth. ² Sing to Jehovah, bless His name, Proclaim from day to day His salvation.

² Jehovah hath made known His salvation, Before the eyes of the nations, He hath revealed His righteousness, ³ He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

¹ Praise Jehovah, all ye nations, Glorify Him, all ye peoples. ² For mighty to us hath been His kindness, And the truth of Jehovah is to the age. Praise ye Jah!

¹ The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: ² And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, Established is the mount of Jehovah's house, Above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the heights, And flowed unto it have all the nations. ³ And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

¹³ When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished, ¹⁴ They—they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea. ¹⁵ Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.
¹⁶ From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness is to me, Leanness is to me, woe is to me.' Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

¹ Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one—My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.

⁶ I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

⁹ The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear. ¹⁰ Sing to Jehovah a new song, His praise from the end of the earth, Ye who are going down to the sea, and its fulness, Isles, and their inhabitants. ¹¹ The wilderness and its cities do lift up the voice, The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry. ¹² They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.

²² Turn to Me, and be saved, all ends of the earth, For I am God, and there is none else.

⁶ And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'

¹⁰ Jehovah hath made bare His holy arm Before the eyes of all the nations, And seen have all the ends of the earth, The salvation of our God.

¹⁹ And they fear from the west the name of Jehovah, And from the rising of the sun—His honour, When come in as a flood doth an adversary, The Spirit of Jehovah hath raised an ensign against him. ²⁰ And come to Zion hath a redeemer, Even to captives of transgression in Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah.

³ And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

¹⁰ and the number of the sons of Israel hath been as the sand of the sea, that is not measured nor numbered, and it hath come to pass in the place where it is said to them, Ye are not My people, it is said to them, Sons of the Living God;

¹² So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My name is called, An affirmation of Jehovah—doer of this.

² And gone have many nations and said, Come and we go up to the mount of Jehovah, And unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we do walk in His paths, For from Zion doth go forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. ³ And He hath judged between many peoples, And given a decision to mighty nations afar off, They have beaten their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation lifteth not up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn war any more.

⁷ And the remnant of Jacob hath been in the midst of many peoples, As dew from Jehovah—as showers on the herb, That waiteth not for man, nor stayeth for the sons of men.

⁹ For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one shoulder. ¹⁰ From beyond the rivers of Cush, my supplicants, The daughter of My scattered ones, Do bring My present.

¹¹ And joined have been many nations unto Jehovah in that day, And they have been to Me for a people, And I have dwelt in thy midst, And thou hast known that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto thee.

²⁰ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet come do peoples, and inhabitants of many cities, ²¹ Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts—I go, even I. ²² Yea, come in have many peoples, and mighty nations, To seek Jehovah of Hosts in Jerusalem, And to appease the face of Jehovah. ²³ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: In those days take hold do ten men of all languages of the nations, Yea, they have taken hold on the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying: We go with you, for we heard God is with you!

¹¹ For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great is My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great is My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

¹⁹ having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them—to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁵ and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

³² a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

¹⁴ Simeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name, ¹⁵ and to this agree the words of the prophets, as it hath been written: ¹⁶ After these things I will turn back, and I will build again the tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and its ruins I will build again, and will set it upright—

¹⁷ delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

²³ that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'

² I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

⁸ for I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Be coming, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it .'

¹⁶ and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock—one shepherd.

²⁶ but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep, ²⁷ according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

⁵² and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

⁴¹ then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

⁴⁷ praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

⁸ and there was great joy in that city.

² there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

³¹ and they having read, did rejoice for the consolation;

¹³ And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;

¹⁰ and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do.

²⁹ because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; ³⁰ and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

⁷ What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

¹ Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

⁹ and the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, `Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,' <sup>10</sup> and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;' ¹¹ and again, `Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;' <sup>12</sup> and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations—upon him shall nations hope;'

¹⁵ And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves—

⁴ according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

¹⁹ and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might,

⁵ even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,) ⁶ and did raise us up together, and did seat us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus, ⁸ for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you—of God the gift, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast; ¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹³ And we—we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, ¹⁴ to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹ As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

⁴² and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord;

²⁴ And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

¹⁰ And this happened for two years so that all those dwelling in Asia did hear the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks,

²⁶ and ye see and hear, that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all Asia, this Paul, having persuaded, did turn away a great multitude, saying, that they are not gods who are made by hands;

¹³ so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places—all, ¹⁴ and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold—fearlessly to speak the word.

²⁵ surely there hath none been like Ahab, who sold himself to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife hath moved,

⁵ Hear a word of Jehovah, Ye who are trembling unto His word, Said have your brethren who are hating you, Who are driving you out, for My name's sake: `Honoured is Jehovah, and we look on your joy,' But they are ashamed.

¹² And Amaziah saith unto Amos, `Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy;

²³ `And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

¹⁷ and they began to call upon him to go away from their borders.

⁵ And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,

¹² They did stir up also the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and having come upon him, they caught him, and brought him to the sanhedrim;

¹ And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

⁴⁵ and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul—contradicting and speaking evil.

² and the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;

³⁷ and Paul said to them, `Having beaten us publicly uncondemned—men, Romans being—they did cast us to prison, and now privately do they cast us forth! why no! but having come themselves, let them bring us forth.' ³⁸ And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans, ³⁹ and having come, they besought them, and having brought them forth, they were asking them to go forth from the city;

¹³ And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes;

²⁷ And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him,

² for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

²⁶ for see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷ but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong; ²⁸ and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless— ²⁹ that no flesh may glory before Him;

¹⁵ who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men are contrary, ¹⁶ forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!

¹¹ the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

⁵ Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? ⁶ and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

¹⁴ `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

¹¹ and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

⁵ and as many as may not receive you, going forth from that city, even the dust from your feet shake off, for a testimony against them.'

²¹ Having proclaimed good news also to that city, and having discipled many, they turned back to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch,

² who was well testified to by the brethren in Lystra and Iconium;

¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

²² `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake— ²³ rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

²² `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,
²³ and in that day ye will question me nothing; verily, verily, I say to you, as many things as ye may ask of the Father in my name, He will give you;

⁴⁶ Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,

⁴¹ they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

³ And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

¹⁷ for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

² because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

²² And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

¹⁸ and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit, ¹⁹ speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, ²⁰ giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

⁶ and ye—ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

² All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

⁶ in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, ⁷ that the proof of your faith—much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved—may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, ⁸ whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

¹³ but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice—exulting;