Deuteronomy 16 Cross References - ACV

¹ Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to LORD thy God, for in the month of Abib LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. ² And thou shall sacrifice the Passover to LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there. ³ Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread with it, even the bread of affliction, for thou came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou may remember the day when thou came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. ⁴ And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days. Neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning. ⁵ Thou may not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, ⁶ but at the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou came forth out of Egypt. ⁷ And thou shall roast and eat it in the place which LORD thy God shall choose, and thou shall turn in the morning, and go to thy tents. ⁸ Six days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to LORD thy God. Thou shall do no work. ⁹ Thou shall number to thee seven weeks. From the time thou begin to put the sickle to the standing grain thou shall begin to number seven weeks. ¹⁰ And thou shall keep the feast of weeks to LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering from thy hand, which thou shall give, according as LORD thy God blesses thee. ¹¹ And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of thee, in the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, ¹² and thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in Egypt. And thou shall observe and do these statutes. ¹³ Thou shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days after thou have gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress. ¹⁴ And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates. ¹⁵ Seven days thou shall keep a feast to LORD thy God in the place which LORD shall choose, because LORD thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shall be altogether joyful. ¹⁶ Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And they shall not appear before LORD empty. ¹⁷ Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee. ¹⁸ Thou shall make judges and officers for thee in all thy gates, which LORD thy God gives thee, according to thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. ¹⁹ Thou shall not distort justice. Thou shall not respect persons, neither shall thou take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous. ²⁰ Thou shall follow that which is altogether just, that thou may live, and inherit the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ²¹ Thou shall not plant for thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of LORD thy God, which thou shall make for thee. ²² Neither shall thou set up a pillar for thee, which LORD thy God hates.

² This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³ Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. ⁴ And if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls, according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. Ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶ And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel upon the houses in which they shall eat it. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with the inwards of it. ¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, but that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And thus ye shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And ye shall eat it in haste. It is LORD's Passover. ¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am LORD. ¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a sign upon the houses where ye are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. ¹⁵ Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation, no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. ¹⁷ And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for in this selfsame day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore ye shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. ¹⁸ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one who is born in the land. ²⁰ Ye shall eat nothing leavened, in all your habitations ye shall eat unleavened bread.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, that LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. ³⁰ And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead. ³¹ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the sons of Israel, and go, serve LORD, as ye have said. ³² Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone, and bless me also. ³³ And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, We are all dead men. ³⁴ And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. ³⁵ And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. ³⁶ And LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians. ³⁷ And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. ³⁸ And a mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. ³⁹ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions. ⁴⁰ Now the time that the sons of Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the armies of LORD went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴² It is a night to be much observed to LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of LORD, to be much observed of all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴ This day ye go forth in the month Abib.

¹⁵ Thou shall keep the feast of unleavened bread (Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in it thou came out from Egypt, and none shall appear before me empty),

¹⁸ Thou shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib thou came out from Egypt.

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, is LORD's Passover.

² Moreover let the sons of Israel keep the Passover in its appointed season. ³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season. According to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances of it, ye shall keep it. ⁴ And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. ⁵ And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that LORD commanded Moses, so did the sons of Israel.

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is LORD's Passover.

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. Ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶ And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel upon the houses in which they shall eat it.

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is LORD's Passover. ¹⁷ And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. ¹⁸ In the first day shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ¹⁹ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to LORD: two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old (they shall be to you without blemish),

⁵ But to the place which LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation ye shall seek, and there thou shall come.

¹¹ then it shall come to pass that to the place which LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there, there ye shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow to LORD.

¹⁴ but in the place which LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes. There thou shall offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shall do all that I command thee.

¹⁸ But thou shall eat them before LORD thy God in the place which LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates. And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God in all that thou put thy hand to.

²⁶ Only thy holy things which thou have, and thy vows, thou shall take, and go to the place which LORD shall choose.

²⁰ Thou shall eat it before LORD thy God year by year in the place which LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.

⁷ And Josiah gave to the sons of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the Passover offerings, to all who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and also three thousand bullocks; these were of the king's substance.

² Ye know that after two days the Passover comes, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

¹⁷ Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where do thou want that we should prepare for thee to eat the Passover?

¹² And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples say to him, Where do thou want, after going, we should prepare that thou may eat the Passover?

⁸ And he sent Peter and John, saying, After departing, prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.

¹⁵ And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before my suffering.

⁷ Purge out the old leaven, so that ye may be a new lump, since ye are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.

⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

¹¹ And thus ye shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And ye shall eat it in haste. It is LORD's Passover.

¹⁴ And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. ¹⁵ Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, when your sons shall say to you, What do ye mean by this service? ²⁷ that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of LORD's Passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped.

³² Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone, and bless me also. ³³ And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, We are all dead men.

³⁹ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any provisions.

³ And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for by strength of hand LORD brought you out from this place. There shall no leavened bread be eaten. ⁴ This day ye go forth in the month Abib. ⁵ And it shall be, when LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shall keep this service in this month. ⁶ Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to LORD. ⁷ Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy borders. ⁸ And thou shall tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt. ⁹ And it shall be for a sign to thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of LORD may be in thy mouth, for with a strong hand has LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to LORD. Ye shall eat unleavened bread seven days.

¹¹ In the second month on the fourteenth day at evening they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹⁷ And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

²⁷ and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction until I come in peace.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

⁴ He has made his wonderful works to be remembered. LORD is gracious and merciful.

² It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, for so he gives sleep to his beloved.

¹⁰ And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication. And they shall look to me whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him, as a man mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as a man who is in bitterness for his firstborn.

¹⁹ And after taking bread, having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and gave to them, saying, This is my body that is given for you. Do ye this in my memory.

⁸ Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.

²⁴ and having expressed thanks, he broke in pieces, and said, Take ye, eat, this is my body broken for you. This do ye for my memorial. ²⁵ Likewise also the cup after the supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. This do, as often as ye drink it, for my memorial. ²⁶ For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

¹⁰ For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death. ¹¹ For behold this same thing-your grieving toward God. How much eagerness it worked in you, even a defense, even indignation, even fear, even longing, even zeal, even vengeance! In everything ye demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

⁶ And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, but that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

¹⁵ Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

⁷ Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy borders.

²⁵ Thou shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread, nor shall the sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.

⁵ But to the place which LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even to his habitation ye shall seek, and there thou shall come. ⁶ And there ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock.

² And thou shall sacrifice the Passover to LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which LORD shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

⁶ And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel upon the houses in which they shall eat it. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with the inwards of it.

³ In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, ye shall keep it in its appointed season. According to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances of it, ye shall keep it.

²⁰ Now having become evening, he was sitting with the twelve.

² whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the ages. ³ Who, being the radiance of his glory, and the exact image of his essence, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made purification of our sins through himself, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in the heights.

²⁶ since it would be necessary for him to suffer often, from the foundation of the world. But now once, at the end of the ages, he was made known for an annulment of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

¹⁹ but by precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted-of Christ, ²⁰ who was indeed foreknown before the foundation of the world, but was manifested in the last times because of you:

⁶ but at the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shall sacrifice the Passover at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou came forth out of Egypt.

²³ But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah this Passover was kept to LORD in Jerusalem.

¹³ And they roasted the Passover with fire according to the ordinance. And the holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the sons of the people.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

¹³ And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

²³ Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the feast, many believed in his name seeing his signs that he did.

⁵⁵ Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the countryside before the Passover, so that they might purify themselves.

¹⁵ Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation, no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

⁶ Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to LORD. ⁷ Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy borders. ⁸ And thou shall tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which LORD did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.

⁶ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to LORD. Ye shall eat unleavened bread seven days. ⁷ In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ⁸ But ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation, ye shall do no job work.

³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. It is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no job work.

⁹ And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly. For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

¹⁸ Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly according to the ordinance.

¹⁴ Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of LORD your God, and cry to LORD.

¹⁶ and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sow in the field, and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when thou gather in thy labors out of the field.

²² And thou shall observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year.

¹⁵ And ye shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, there shall be complete seven sabbaths. ¹⁶ Ye shall number fifty days, even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath, and ye shall offer a new meal offering to LORD.

²⁶ Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal offering to LORD in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ²⁷ But ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to LORD: two young bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old, ²⁸ and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram, ²⁹ a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs, ³⁰ one he-goat, to make atonement for you.

¹⁰ And thou shall keep the feast of weeks to LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering from thy hand, which thou shall give, according as LORD thy God blesses thee.

¹⁶ Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And they shall not appear before LORD empty.

¹³ even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

¹ And while fulfilling the day of Pentecost, they were all together at the same place.

⁸ But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.

¹ Because of this we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest we might slip away.

⁷ And if his means is not sufficient for a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for that by which he has sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to LORD, one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

⁸ And if her means are not sufficient for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

²⁶ And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it,

²⁸ And levy a tribute to LORD of the men of war who went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the donkeys, and of the flocks.

³⁷ And LORD's tribute of the sheep was six hundred and seventy-five.

¹⁶ Three times in a year all thy males shall appear before LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And they shall not appear before LORD empty. ¹⁷ Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of LORD thy God which he has given thee.

⁹ Honor LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase, ¹⁰ so thy barns shall be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.

²² The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

¹⁴ Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to LORD your God? ¹⁵ And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD. ¹⁶ Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty. ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands, yet ye turned not to me, says LORD. ¹⁸ Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of LORD's temple was laid, consider it. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless you.

¹⁰ Bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now with this, says LORD of hosts, if I will not open to you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for it. ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, nor shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says LORD of hosts.

² Upon the first day of the week let each of you set something aside near himself, storing up whatever he may prosper, so that when I come no collections may be made then.

¹⁰ And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

¹² For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

⁵ Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers that they would go ahead to you, and arrange in advance your gift that was earlier announced, for this to be ready this way as a gift and not as an exaction. ⁶ But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. ⁷ Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work, ⁹ as it is written, He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures into the age. ¹⁰ And he who supplies seed to the man who sows, and bread for eating, may he supply and multiply your seed, and may he increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ being enriched in everything for every generosity, which works gratitude to God through us.

⁷ And there ye shall eat before LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand to, ye and your households, in which LORD thy God has blessed thee.

¹² And ye shall rejoice before LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite who is within your gates-inasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

¹⁴ And thou shall rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within thy gates.

⁵ Thou meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember thee in thy ways. Behold, thou were angry, and we sinned. Therefore we have erred.

¹⁰ Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all ye who mourn over her, ¹¹ that ye may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations, that ye may get milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. ¹² For thus says LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And ye shall nurse thereof. Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees. ¹³ As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. ¹⁴ And ye shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass. And the hand of LORD shall be known toward his servants, and he will have indignation against his enemies.

¹⁸ yet I will rejoice in LORD. I will joy in the God of my salvation.

¹¹ And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

²⁴ Not because we lord over your faith, but are co-workmen of your joy, for by faith ye stand.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice.

¹⁵ And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and LORD thy God redeemed thee. Therefore I command thee this thing today.

¹⁵ Seven days thou shall keep a feast to LORD thy God in the place which LORD shall choose, because LORD thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shall be altogether joyful.

¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰ My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

¹⁷ But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered. ¹⁸ And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness

¹ Even you, who were dead in trespasses and sins ² in which ye once walked according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among whom we also all once behaved in the lusts of our flesh, doing the intentions of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath as also the others.

¹¹ Remember therefore that once ye, the Gentiles in flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision (in flesh, made by hands),

³⁴ Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days to LORD. ³⁵ On the first day shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work. ³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. It is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no job work.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work, and ye shall keep a feast to LORD seven days. ¹³ And ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD: thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old (they shall be without blemish), ¹⁴ and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, ¹⁵ and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs, ¹⁶ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ¹⁷ And on the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ¹⁸ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ¹⁹ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²¹ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²² and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²³ And on the fourth day, ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁴ their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²⁵ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²⁶ And on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁷ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²⁸ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²⁹ And on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁰ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ³¹ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it. ³² And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³³ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ³⁴ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ³⁵ On the eighth day, ye shall have a solemn assembly. Ye shall do no job work. ³⁶ But ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁷ their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance, ³⁸ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ³⁹ These ye shall offer to LORD in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings. ⁴⁰ And Moses told the sons of Israel according to all that LORD commanded Moses.

¹⁰ And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

³ And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month.

⁸ So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt. ⁹ And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly. For they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. ¹⁰ And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that LORD had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

⁴ And they kept the feast of tabernacles as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required.

¹⁴ And they found written in the law how that LORD had commanded by Moses that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written. ¹⁶ So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, each one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And all the assembly of those who came again out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in the booths, for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the sons of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness. ¹⁸ Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly according to the ordinance.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. ¹⁷ And it shall be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain. ¹⁸ And if the family of Egypt does not go up, and does not come, that there shall be the plague with which LORD will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

² Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was near.

¹¹ And thou shall rejoice before LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of thee, in the place which LORD thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there,

¹¹ And thou shall rejoice in all the good which LORD thy God has given to thee, and to thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is in the midst of thee.

⁹ And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites who taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law. ¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go your way, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord; neither be ye grieved, for the joy of LORD is your strength. ¹¹ So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, Be silent, for the day is holy, neither be ye grieved. ¹² And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

⁷ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.

¹ And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me. ² Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, even LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation. ³ Therefore with joy ye shall draw water out of the wells of salvation. ⁴ And in that day ye shall say, Give thanks to LORD. Call upon his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Make mention that his name is exalted. ⁵ Sing to LORD, for he has done excellent things. Let this be known in all the earth. ⁶ Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion, for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

⁶ And in this mountain LORD of hosts will make to all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the dregs, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the dregs well refined. ⁷ And he will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. ⁸ He will swallow up death in victory, and the lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

²⁹ Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as he who goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of LORD shall return, and come with singing to Zion. And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. They shall obtain gladness and joy. And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

¹⁶ Rejoice always.

³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to LORD. It is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no job work. ³⁷ These are the set feasts of LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day. ³⁸ Besides the sabbaths of LORD, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which ye give to LORD. ³⁹ However on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. ⁴⁰ And ye shall take to you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before LORD your God seven days. ⁴¹ And ye shall keep it a feast to LORD seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. Ye shall keep it in the seventh month. ⁴² Ye shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,

¹² And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation. Ye shall do no job work, and ye shall keep a feast to LORD seven days. ¹³ And ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD: thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old (they shall be without blemish), ¹⁴ and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams, ¹⁵ and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs, ¹⁶ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ¹⁷ And on the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ¹⁸ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ¹⁹ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and their drink offerings. ²⁰ And on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²¹ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²² and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²³ And on the fourth day, ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁴ their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²⁵ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²⁶ And on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ²⁷ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ²⁸ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ²⁹ And on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁰ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ³¹ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offerings of it. ³² And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³³ and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance, ³⁴ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it. ³⁵ On the eighth day, ye shall have a solemn assembly. Ye shall do no job work. ³⁶ But ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish, ³⁷ their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance, ³⁸ and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it.

¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee. He will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he swore to thy fathers to give thee.

⁸ LORD will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou put thy hand to. And he will bless thee in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ⁹ LORD will establish thee for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to thee, if thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou are called by the name of LORD, and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And LORD will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which LORD swore to thy fathers to give thee. ¹² LORD will open to thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand. And thou shall lend to many nations, and thou shall not borrow.

¹⁶ in that I command thee this day to love LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that thou may live and multiply, and that LORD thy God may bless thee in the land where thou go in to possess it.

¹⁴ Three times thou shall keep a feast to me in the year. ¹⁵ Thou shall keep the feast of unleavened bread (Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in it thou came out from Egypt, and none shall appear before me empty), ¹⁶ and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sow in the field, and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when thou gather in thy labors out of the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the lord LORD.

²⁰ And the firstling of a donkey thou shall redeem with a lamb, and if thou will not redeem it, then thou shall break its neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

²² And thou shall observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering in the middle of the year. ²³ Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the lord LORD, the God of Israel.

²⁵ And three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built to LORD, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before LORD. So he finished the house.

³ Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, ⁴ even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses, ⁵ of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artisans. Who then offers willingly to consecrate himself this day to LORD? ⁶ Then the rulers of the fathers, and the rulers of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered willingly. ⁷ And they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents. ⁸ And those with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of LORD under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite. ⁹ Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to LORD. And David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

¹⁴ But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. ¹⁵ For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. ¹⁶ O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name comes of thy hand, and is all thine own. ¹⁷ I know also, my God, that thou try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. And now I have seen with joy thy people, who are present here, offer willingly to thee.

⁸ Ascribe to LORD the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts.

¹⁸ And her merchandise and her pay shall be holiness to LORD. It shall not be treasured nor laid up, for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

⁶ The multitude of camels shall cover thee. The dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of LORD. ⁷ All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to thee. The rams of Nebaioth shall minister to thee. They shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory. ⁸ Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? ⁹ Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified thee.

⁹ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

¹¹ And having come into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down, they worshiped him. And having opened their treasures, they brought to him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

³ And having seized him, they beat him, and sent him away empty.

⁸ But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the priest value him.

⁶³ And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

⁴¹ And having sat down opposite the treasury, Jesus watched how the multitude cast money into the treasury, and many rich men cast in much. ⁴² And one poor widow having come, she cast in two mites, which are a quadrans. ⁴³ And having summoned his disciples, he says to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast in more than all those who are casting into the treasury. ⁴⁴ For they all cast in from that which is abundant to them, but she from her need cast in all, as many things she had, her whole living.

⁶ But this, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows in blessings will also reap in blessings. ⁷ Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

²⁵ And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, ²⁶ and they judged the people at all seasons. The hard cases they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

⁶ then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the door-post, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, according to your tribes. ¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner who is with him. ¹⁷ Ye shall not respect persons in judgment. Ye shall hear the small and the great alike. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

⁹ And thou shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and thou shall inquire. And they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.

¹² And the man who does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest who stands to minister there before LORD thy God, or to the judge, even that man shall die, and thou shall put away the evil from Israel.

¹⁷ then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days, ¹⁸ and the judges shall make diligent inquiry. And, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother,

² then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain,

⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of LORD. And six thousand were officers and judges,

²⁹ Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outer business over Israel, for officers and judges.

⁵ And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, ⁶ and said to the judges, Consider what ye do. For ye judge not for man, but for LORD, and he is with you in the judgment. ⁷ Now therefore let the fear of LORD be upon you. Take heed and do it. For there is no iniquity with LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes. ⁸ Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat set from the Levites and the priests, and from the heads of the fathers of Israel for the judgment of LORD, and for controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem. ⁹ And he charged them, saying, Thus ye shall do in the fear of LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. ¹⁰ And whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards LORD, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brothers. Do this, and ye shall not be guilty. ¹¹ And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of LORD, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters. The Levites shall also be officers before you. Deal courageously, and LORD be with the good.

² How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah. ³ Judge the poor man and the orphan. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute man.

¹ Let every soul be subject to offices of authority that rank higher. For there is no office of authority if not by God, and the offices of authority that are by God are those that have been instituted. ² So that he who resists the office of authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and those who have opposed will receive condemnation to themselves. ³ For rulers are not a source of fear to the good works, but to the evil. And do thou desire not to fear the office of authority? Do what is good, and thou will have praise from it. ⁴ For he is a helper of God to thee for what is good. But if thou do what is evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is a helper of God, vengeful for wrath to the man who commits evil. ⁵ Therefore there is a need to be subordinate, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience. ⁶ For because of this ye also fulfill taxes, for they are servants of God being devoted to this same thing.

² Thou shall not follow a multitude to do evil, neither shall thou speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

⁶ Thou shall not distort the justice due to thy poor in his case. ⁷ Keep thee far from a false matter. And do not kill an innocent and righteous man, for I will not justify a wicked man. ⁸ And thou shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous.

¹⁵ Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. Thou shall not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but thou shall judge thy neighbor in righteousness.

¹⁷ For LORD your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.

¹⁷ Thou shall not distort the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's raiment to pledge,

¹⁹ Cursed be he who distorts the justice to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Truly.

³ And his sons did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

³ Here I am. Witness against me before LORD, and before his anointed: Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or of whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate, ²² then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

²³ A wicked man receives a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

²³ These also are from the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

²⁸ Be not a witness against thy neighbor without cause, and deceive not with thy lips.

⁷ Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

¹⁷ Learn to do good. Seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

²³ Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

¹⁵ He who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly. He who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes away his hands from taking a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil.

²⁸ They have grown fat. They shine. Yea, they overflow in deeds of wickedness. They do not plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper. And they do not judge the right of the needy.

¹² In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the lord LORD.

³ Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

⁴ Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.

³ Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow. ⁴ Her prophets are airy and treacherous men. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law. ⁵ LORD in the midst of her is righteous. He will not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He does not fail, but the unjust man knows no shame.

³⁴ And having opened his mouth, Peter said, In truth, I am overwhelmed that God is not partial,

³⁷ But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, uncondemned men, being Romans, they cast us into prison, and now they thrust us out privately? Certainly not, but after coming, they shall lead us out.

³ Then Paul said to him, God is going to smite thee, a whitewashed wall. Thou even sit judging me according to the law, and violating law, thou command me to be struck?

¹ And now, O Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you.

¹³ Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small. ¹⁴ Thou shall not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small. ¹⁵ A perfect and just weight thou shall have, a perfect and just measure thou shall have, that thy days may be long in the land which LORD thy God gives thee. ¹⁶ For all who do such things, even all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to LORD thy God.

⁵ But if a man be just, and does that which is lawful and right,

⁹ has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly, he is just. He shall surely live, says the lord LORD.

⁸ He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

⁵ For Moses writes in the righteousness from the law, that the man that does them will live in them.

⁸ Finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are commendable, if anything is a virtue, and if anything is praiseworthy, think on these things.

¹³ But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim,

⁵ But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

⁷ And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and forgot LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

¹⁵ For LORD will smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. And he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their Asherim, provoking LORD to anger.

³³ And Ahab made the Asherah. And Ahab did yet more to provoke LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of LORD their God, and made for them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

³ For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

⁴ Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

¹ Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.

³¹ Thou shall not do so to LORD thy God. For every abomination to LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

⁴ However I sent all my servants the prophets to you, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

¹⁷ And let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath. For all these are things that I hate, says LORD.

⁶ But this thou have, that thou hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

¹⁵ So also thou have men who likewise adhere to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.