Bible verses about "self-defense" | Darby

¹ And Man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have acquired a man with Jehovah. ² And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman. ³ And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah. ⁴ And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering; ⁵ and upon Cain, and on his offering, he did not look. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. ⁶ And Jehovah said to Cain, Why art thou angry, and why is thy countenance fallen? ⁷ If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. ⁸ And Cain spoke to Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother`s keeper? <sup>10</sup> And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother`s blood is crying to me from the ground. ¹¹ And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother`s blood from thy hand. <sup>12</sup> When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield thee its strength; a wanderer and fugitive shalt thou be on the earth. <sup>13</sup> And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is too great to be borne. <sup>14</sup> Behold, thou hast driven me this day from the face of the ground, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a wanderer and fugitive on the earth; and it will come to pass, [that] every one who finds me will slay me. <sup>15</sup> And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him. <sup>16</sup> And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah, and dwelt in the land of Nod, toward the east of Eden. <sup>17</sup> And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city; and he called the name of the city after the name of his son Enoch. <sup>18</sup> And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech. <sup>19</sup> And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah. <sup>20</sup> And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and [breed] cattle. <sup>21</sup> And his brother`s name was Jubal: he was the father of those who handle the harp and pipe. ²² And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, the forger of every kind of tool of brass and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. ²³ And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise. ²⁴ If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold. ²⁵ And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: ... For God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel, because Cain has slain him. ²⁶ And to Seth, to him also was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then people began to call on the name of Jehovah.

¹ And God spoke all these words, saying, ² I am Jehovah thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ³ Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁴ Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth: ⁵ thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me, ⁶ and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. ⁷ Thou shalt not idly utter the name of Jehovah thy God; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that idly uttereth his name. ⁸ Remember the sabbath day to hallow it. ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; ¹⁰ but the seventh day is the sabbath of Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy bondman, nor thy handmaid, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. ¹¹ For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. ¹² Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be prolonged in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee. ¹³ Thou shalt not kill. ¹⁴ Thou shalt not commit adultery. ¹⁵ Thou shalt not steal. ¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not desire thy neighbour`s house, thou shalt not desire thy neighbour`s wife, nor his bondman, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour`s. ¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunderings, and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw [it], they trembled, and stood afar off, ¹⁹ and said to Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not. ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the obscurity where God was. ²² And Jehovah said to Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: Ye have seen that I have spoken with you from the heavens. ²³ Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold. ²⁴ An altar of earth shalt thou make unto me, and shalt sacrifice on it thy burnt-offerings, and thy peace-offerings, thy sheep and thine oxen: in all places where I shall make my name to be remembered, I will come unto thee, and bless thee. ²⁵ And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if thou lift up thy sharp tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. ²⁶ Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

¹ Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God. ² Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah. ³ If ye walk in my statutes, and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴ then I will give your rain in the season thereof, and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit; ⁵ and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land securely. ⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; and I will put away the evil beasts out of the land; and the sword shall not go through your land. ⁷ And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword; ⁸ and five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; and your enemies shall fall beside you by the sword. ⁹ And I will turn my face towards you and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new. ¹¹ And I will set my habitation among you; and my soul shall not abhor you; ¹² and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be to me a people. ¹³ I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright. ¹⁴ But if ye hearken not unto me, and do not all these commandments, ¹⁵ and if ye shall despise my statutes, and if your soul shall abhor mine ordinances, so that ye do not all my commandments, that ye break my covenant, ¹⁶ I also will do this unto you -- I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. ¹⁷ And I will set my face against you, that ye may be routed before your enemies; they that hate you shall have dominion over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you. ¹⁸ And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins, ¹⁹ and I will break the arrogance of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze, ²⁰ and your strength shall be spent in vain, and your land shall not yield its produce; and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit. ²¹ And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins. ²² And I will send the beasts of the field among you, that they may rob you of your children, and cut off your cattle, and make you few in number; and your streets shall be desolate. ²³ And if ye will not be disciplined by me through these, but walk contrary unto me, ²⁴ then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins. ²⁵ And I will bring a sword upon you that avengeth with the vengeance of the covenant, and ye shall be gathered together into your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy. ²⁶ When I break the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and shall deliver you the bread again by weight; and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied. ²⁷ And if for this ye hearken not to me, but walk contrary unto me, ²⁸ then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins. ²⁹ And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. ³⁰ And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you. ³¹ And I will lay waste your cities and desolate your sanctuaries; and I will not smell your sweet odours. ³² And I will bring the land into desolation; that your enemies who dwell there in may be astonished at it. ³³ And I will scatter you among the nations, and will draw out the sword after you; and your land shall be desolation, and your cities waste. ³⁴ Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, when ye are in your enemies` land; then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths. <sup>35</sup> All the days of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein. <sup>36</sup> And as to those that remain of you -- I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, that the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them, and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth; <sup>37</sup> and they shall stumble one over another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth; and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies. <sup>38</sup> And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. <sup>39</sup> And they that remain of you shall waste away through their iniquity in your enemies` lands; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they waste away with them. ⁴⁰ And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me, ⁴¹ so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity, ⁴² I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. ⁴³ For the land shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, when it is in desolation without them; and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they despised my judgments, and their soul abhorred my statutes. ⁴⁴ And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not despise them, and will not abhor them, to make an end of them utterly, to break my covenant with them, for I am Jehovah their God. ⁴⁵ But I will remember toward them the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah. ⁴⁶ These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

⁸ They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee supreme above all nations of the earth; ² and all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be in thy going out. ⁷ Jehovah will give up, smitten before thee, thine enemies that rise up against thee; they shall come out against thee one way, and by seven ways shall they flee before thee. ⁸ Jehovah will command blessing on thee in thy granaries, and in all the business of thy hand; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. ⁹ Jehovah will establish thee unto himself a holy people as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹² Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. ¹³ And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them, ¹⁴ and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee. ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep. ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be in thy coming in, and cursed shalt thou be in thy going out. ²⁰ Jehovah will send upon thee cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all the business of thy hand which thou doest, until thou be destroyed and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. ²¹ Jehovah will make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ²² Jehovah will smite thee with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with burning ague, and with drought, and with blight, and with mildew, and they shall pursue thee until thou perish. ²³ And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron. ²⁴ Jehovah will give as the rain of thy land powder and dust; from the heavens shall it come down upon thee until thou be destroyed. ²⁵ Jehovah will give thee up smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out against them one way, and by seven ways shalt thou flee before them; and thou shalt be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ And thy carcase shall be meat unto all the fowl of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no man to scare them away. ²⁷ Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt, and with boils, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed. ²⁸ Jehovah will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; ²⁹ and thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled continually, and there shall be none to save. ³⁰ Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not eat of it. ³¹ Thine ox shall be slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof; thine ass shall be snatched away from before thy face, and shall not return to thee; thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to recover them. ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and languish for them all the day long; and there shall be no power in thy hand [to help it]. ³³ The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually. ³⁴ And thou shalt be mad through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ³⁵ Jehovah will smite thee in the knees and in the legs with evil ulcers, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head. ³⁶ Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone. ³⁷ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee. ³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it. ³⁹ Thou shalt plant and till vineyards, but shalt drink no wine, nor gather [the fruit]; for the worms shall eat it. ⁴⁰ Olive-trees shalt thou have throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil; for thine olive-tree shall cast its fruit. ⁴¹ Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them [to be with thee]; for they shall go into captivity. ⁴² All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess. ⁴³ The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, but thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, until thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee. ⁴⁶ And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. ⁴⁷ Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸ thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. ⁴⁹ Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from afar, from the end of the earth, like as the eagle flieth, a nation whose tongue thou understandest not; ⁵⁰ a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young; ⁵¹ and he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; for he shall not leave thee corn, new wine, or oil, offspring of thy kine, or increase of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee. ⁵² And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee. ⁵³ And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee. ⁵⁴ The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left; ⁵⁵ so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. ⁵⁶ The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter, ⁵⁷ because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates. ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; ⁵⁹ then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses; ⁶⁰ and he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou art afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee. ⁶¹ Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. ⁶² And ye shall be left a small company, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whereunto thou goest to possess it. ⁶⁴ And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and thou shalt there serve other gods, whom thou hast not known, neither thou nor thy fathers, wood and stone. ⁶⁵ And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul. ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in suspense before thee; and thou shalt be in terror day and night and shalt be afraid of thy life. ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, Would that it were even! and in the evening thou shalt say, Would that it were morning! through the fright of thy heart wherewith thou shalt be in terror, and through the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. ⁶⁸ And Jehovah will bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said unto thee, Thou shalt see it again no more; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and there shall be no man to buy [you].

⁴⁷ Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything, ⁴⁸ thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

¹ And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against Israel. ² And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken. ³ And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baals; ⁴ but he sought the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel. ⁵ And Jehovah established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah gave gifts to Jehoshaphat; and he had riches and honour in abundance. ⁶ And he took courage in the ways of Jehovah; moreover, he removed the high places and Asherahs out of Judah. ⁷ And in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethaneel, and Micah, to teach in the cities of Judah; ⁸ and with them the Levites: Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests. ⁹ And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about through all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people. ¹⁰ And the terror of Jehovah was upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat. ¹¹ And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and tribute-silver. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred he-goats. ¹² And Jehoshaphat waxed exceeding great; and he built in Judah castles and store-cities. ¹³ And he had much business in the cities of Judah; and men of war, strong and valiant, in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And these are the numbers of them according to their fathers` houses. Of Judah the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valour; ¹⁵ and next to him was Johanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; ¹⁶ and next to him, Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to Jehovah; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. ¹⁷ And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand, armed with bow and shield; ¹⁸ and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand ready prepared for war. ¹⁹ These were they that waited on the king, besides those that the king had put in the fortified cities throughout Judah.

¹ {To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. On Alamoth. A song.} God is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

²⁶ A troubled fountain, and a defiled well, is a righteous [man] that giveth way before the wicked.

¹ Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil: ² and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered. ³ And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread. ⁴ But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God`s mouth. ⁵ Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, ⁶ and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on [their] hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone. ⁷ Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt [the] Lord thy God. ⁸ Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, ⁹ and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage. ¹⁰ Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to [the] Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. ¹¹ Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him. ¹² But having heard that John was delivered up, he departed into Galilee: ¹³ and having left Nazareth, he went and dwelt at Capernaum, which is on the sea-side in the borders of Zabulon and Nepthalim, ¹⁴ that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through Esaias the prophet, saying, ¹⁵ Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of [the] sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations: ¹⁶ -- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up. ¹⁷ From that time began Jesus to preach and to say, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn nigh. ¹⁸ And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers; ¹⁹ and he says to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. ²⁰ And they, having left their trawl-nets, immediately followed him. ²¹ And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them; ²² and they, having left the ship and their father, immediately followed him. ²³ And [Jesus] went round the whole [of] Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the glad tidings of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every bodily weakness among the people. ²⁴ And his fame went out into the whole [of] Syria, and they brought to him all that were ill, suffering under various diseases and pains, and those possessed by demons, and lunatics, and paralytics; and he healed them. ²⁵ And great crowds followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and beyond the Jordan.

¹ If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep. ² If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him. ³ If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft. ⁴ If the stolen thing be actually found alive in his hand, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall restore double. ⁵ If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and put in his cattle, and pasture in another man`s field, of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard shall he make [it] good. <sup>6</sup> -- If fire break out, and seize the thorns, and the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall fully make it good. <sup>7</sup> -- If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man`s house; if the thief be found, let him restore double; ⁸ if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour`s goods. <sup>9</sup> As to all manner of fraud, -- as to ox, as to ass, as to sheep, as to clothing, as to everything lost, of which [a man] saith, It is this -- the cause of both parties shall come before the judges: he whom the judges shall condemn shall restore double to his neighbour. <sup>10</sup> If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any cattle, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, and no man see [it], <sup>11</sup> an oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour`s goods; and the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make [it] good. ¹² But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner. ¹³ If it have been torn in pieces, let him bring it [as] witness: he shall not make good what was torn. ¹⁴ -- And if a man borrow anything of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, its owner not being with it, he shall fully make it good; ¹⁵ if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make [it] good; if it be a hired [thing], it came for its hire. ¹⁶ And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife. ¹⁷ If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins. ¹⁸ -- Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. ¹⁹ -- Every one that lieth with a beast shall certainly be put to death. ²⁰ -- He that sacrificeth to [any] god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction. ²¹ Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt. ²² Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. ²³ If thou afflict him in any way, if he cry at all unto me, I will certainly hear his cry; ²⁴ and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. ²⁵ -- If thou lend money to my people, the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer: ye shall charge him no interest. ²⁶ -- If thou at all take thy neighbour`s garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down; ²⁷ for that is his only covering, his garment for his skin: on what shall he lie down? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. ²⁸ Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince amongst thy people. ²⁹ -- Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy [threshing-floor] and the outflow of thy [winepress]. The firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. ³⁰ Likewise shalt thou do with thy calf, with thy sheep: seven days shall it be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. ³¹ -- And ye shall be holy men unto me; and ye shall not eat flesh torn in the field: ye shall cast it to the dog.

¹ But seeing the crowds, he went up into the mountain, and having sat down, his disciples came to him; ² and, having opened his mouth, he taught them, saying, ³ Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens. ⁴ Blessed they that mourn, for *they* shall be comforted. ⁵ Blessed the meek, for *they* shall inherit the earth. ⁶ Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for *they* shall be filled. ⁷ Blessed the merciful, for *they* shall find mercy. ⁸ Blessed the pure in heart, for *they* shall see God. ⁹ Blessed the peace-makers, for *they* shall be called sons of God. ¹⁰ Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake. ¹² Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you. ¹³ *Ye* are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have become insipid, wherewith shall it be salted? It is no longer fit for anything but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot by men. ¹⁴ *Ye* are the light of the world: a city situated on the top of a mountain cannot be hid. ¹⁵ Nor do [men] light a lamp and put it under the bushel, but upon the lamp-stand, and it shines for all who are in the house. ¹⁶ Let your light thus shine before men, so that they may see your upright works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens. ¹⁷ Think not that I am come to make void the law or the prophets; I am not come to make void, but to fulfil. ¹⁸ For verily I say unto you, Until the heaven and the earth pass away, one iota or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all come to pass. ¹⁹ Whosoever then shall do away with one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall practise and teach [them], *he* shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens. ²⁰ For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of the heavens. ²¹ Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment. ²² But *I* say unto you, that every one that is lightly angry with his brother shall be subject to the judgment; but whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be subject to [be called before] the sanhedrim; but whosoever shall say, Fool, shall be subject to the penalty of the hell of fire. ²³ If therefore thou shouldest offer thy gift at the altar, and there shouldest remember that thy brother has something against thee, ²⁴ leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. ²⁵ Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. ²⁶ Verily I say to thee, Thou shalt in no wise come out thence till thou hast paid the last farthing. ²⁷ Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery. ²⁸ But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if thy right hand be a snare to thee, cut it off and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. ³¹ It has been said too, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a letter of divorce. ³² But *I* say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery. ³³ Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn. ³⁴ But *I* say unto you, Do not swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is [the] throne of God; ³⁵ nor by the earth, because it is [the] footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, because it is [the] city of the great King. ³⁶ Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. ³⁷ But let your word be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; but what is more than these is from evil. ³⁸ Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. ³⁹ But *I* say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; ⁴⁰ and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body coat, leave him thy cloak also. ⁴¹ And whoever will compel thee to go one mile, go with him two. ⁴² To him that asks of thee give, and from him that desires to borrow of thee turn not away. ⁴³ Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy. ⁴⁴ But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, [bless those who curse you,] do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who [insult you and] persecute you, ⁴⁵ that ye may be [the] sons of your Father who is in [the] heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust. ⁴⁶ For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same? ⁴⁷ And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same? ⁴⁸ Be *ye* therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

⁵² Then saith Jesus to him, Return thy sword to its place; for all who take the sword shall perish by the sword. ⁵³ Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father, and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?

³⁸ Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. ³⁹ But *I* say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

³⁶ He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take [it], in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;

⁴ for it is God`s minister to thee for good. But if thou practisest evil, fear; for it bears not the sword in vain; for it is God`s minister, an avenger for wrath to him that does evil.

⁸ But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

² If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him. ³ If the sun be risen on him, there shall be blood-guiltiness for him; he should have made full restitution: if he had nothing, he would have been sold for his theft.