Genesis 21 Cross References - ACV

¹ And LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken. ² And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ³ And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. ⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. ⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him. ⁶ And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me. ⁷ And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah should give sons suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age. ⁸ And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. ⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. ¹⁰ Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac. ¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son. ¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ¹³ And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed. ¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. ¹⁵ And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. ¹⁶ And she went, and sat herself down opposite him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. ¹⁷ And God heard the voice of the lad. And the agent of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, What troubles thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. ¹⁸ Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand, for I will make him a great nation. ¹⁹ And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. ²⁰ And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer. ²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took for him a wife out of the land of Egypt. ²² And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou do. ²³ Now therefore swear to me here by God that thou will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shall do to me, and to the land in which thou have sojourned. ²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear. ²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water which Abimelech's servants had taken away violently. ²⁶ And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing, neither did thou tell me, nor yet did I hear of it, but today. ²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant. ²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What do these seven ewe lambs mean which thou have set by themselves? ³⁰ And he said, These seven ewe lambs thou shall take from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well. ³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them. ³² So they made a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. ³³ And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of LORD, the Everlasting God. ³⁴ And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

¹⁶ And I will bless her. And moreover I will give thee a son by her. Yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be by her.

¹⁹ And God said, No, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

²¹ But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly return to thee when the season comes round, and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

¹⁴ Is anything too hard for LORD? At the set time I will return to thee, when the season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son.

²⁴ And Joseph said to his brothers, I die, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

¹⁶ Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

³¹ And the people believed. And when they heard that LORD had visited the sons of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

⁵ Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,

⁶ Then she arose with her daughters-in-law that she might return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the country of Moab how that LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.

²¹ And LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before LORD.

⁶ The words of LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that thou bear to thy people. O visit me with thy salvation,

³⁵ The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words may, no, not pass away.

⁶⁸ Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, because he came to help, and made ransom for his people.

⁴⁴ And they will raze thee and thy children within thee. And they will not leave in thee a stone upon a stone, because thou knew not the time of thy visitation.

¹⁷ (as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations), before him whom he believed, of God who makes the dead alive, and who calls things not existing, as existing. ¹⁸ Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be. ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb. ²⁰ And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but became strong in faith, giving glory to God,

²³ But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, who correspond to Isaac, are children of promise.

² in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal,

¹⁶ And he said, At this season, when the time comes round, thou shall embrace a son. And she said, No, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. ¹⁷ And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came round, as Elisha had said to her.

²⁴ And after these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she concealed herself five months, saying, ²⁵ Thus the Lord has done to me during the days in which he looked, to take away my shame among men.

³⁶ And behold, Elizabeth thy kinswoman, she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. And Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

⁹ For this is the word of promise: At this time I will come, and there will be a son by Sarah.

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the freewoman.

¹¹ By faith even Sarah herself received power for conception of seed, and she gave birth beyond the time of age, because she considered him faithful who promised.

⁶ And Sarah said, God has made me to laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.

¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid. In all that Sarah says to thee, hearken to her voice. For in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

² And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

³ And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

² Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,

⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee.

¹⁸ about whom it was said, The seed by thee will be called in Isaac.

¹⁰ This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of a covenant between me and you. ¹² And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations: he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.

⁴⁸ And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it, and he shall be as one who is born in the land, but no uncircumcised man shall eat of it.

³ And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

³² Whatever thing I command you, that shall ye observe to do. Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, going in all the commandments and righteous things of the Lord blameless.

⁵⁹ And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling it by the name of his father Zacharias.

²¹ And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise him, that his name was called JESUS, the one called by the agent before he was conceived in the belly.

²² Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on a sabbath. ²³ If a man receives circumcision on a sabbath, so that the law of Moses may not be loosed, are ye angry with me because I made a man entirely well on a sabbath?

¹ And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am God Almighty, walk before me, and be thou perfect.

¹⁷ Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

¹⁹ And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old? ¹³ And LORD said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I who am old certainly bear a child? ¹⁴ Is anything too hard for LORD? At the set time I will return to thee, when the season comes round, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁵ Then Sarah denied, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And he said, No, but thou did laugh.

²⁶ And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by thee here, praying to LORD.

⁹ He makes the barren woman to keep house, a joyful mother of sons. Praise ye LORD.

² Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, LORD has done great things for them.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee.

²¹ Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were they?

¹ Sing, O barren, thou who did not bear. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou who did not travail with child. For more are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the married woman, says LORD.

¹⁴ And there will be joy and exultation for thee, and many will rejoice at his birth.

⁴⁶ And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, ⁴⁷ and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, ⁴⁸ because he has looked upon the lowliness of his bondmaid. For behold, from henceforth all generations will regard me blessed, ⁴⁹ because the Mighty has done great things to me. And his name is holy. ⁵⁰ And his mercy is for generations of generations to those who fear him. ⁵¹ He did a mighty work by his arm. He scattered the proud in the mentality of their heart. ⁵² He brought down potentates from thrones, and raised up lowly men. ⁵³ He filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he sent away empty. ⁵⁴ He helped his boy Israel to be reminded of mercy, ⁵⁵ just as he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and his seed into the age.

⁵⁸ And her neighbors and her kinfolk heard that the Lord magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

²¹ When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world. ²² And now therefore indeed ye have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no man takes your joy away from you.

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep,

²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband. ²⁸ Now we, brothers, who correspond to Isaac, are children of promise.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. ¹² And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I have become old shall I have pleasure, my lord also being old?

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob, neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

³² For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there has been anything as this great thing is, or has been heard like it? ³³ Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou have heard, and live? ³⁴ Or has God assayed to go and take for him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

⁸ There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor like thy works.

¹⁰ For thou are great, and do wondrous things. Thou alone are God.

⁸ Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her sons.

¹⁰ So that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principal offices and the positions of authority in the heavenly things, through the church,

¹⁰ when he comes to be glorified in his sanctified, and to be marveled in that day by all those who believe (because our testimony among you was believed).

³ And he urged them greatly. And they turned in to him, and entered into his house. And he made a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

²² And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

²⁰ And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast to all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

¹⁰ And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

¹² And Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you. If ye can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment,

²² But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, Not until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before LORD, and abide there forever.

³⁶ And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

²⁰ So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men who were with him a feast.

¹⁵ And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

³ in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his rulers and his servants, the power of Persia and Media, the ranking men and rulers of the provinces, being before him

² Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with his mother. Like a weaned child is my soul within me.

⁸ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.

¹ Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no sons. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

³ And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. ⁴ And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. ⁵ And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon thee. I gave my handmaid into they bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. LORD judge between me and thee. ⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

¹⁵ And Hagar bore Abram a son. And Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

²⁰ And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

²³ And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead. ²⁴ And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two lads of them.

¹⁰ So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

¹ But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. ² And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burnt? ³ Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox goes up he shall break down their stone wall. ⁴ Hear, O our God, for we are despised, and so turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity, ⁵ and do not cover their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee, for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

¹ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

¹⁰ As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

¹³ Thou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Thou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹¹ Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

⁷ Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none helped her, the adversaries saw her; they mocked at her desolations.

²⁹ But just as then, the man who was born according to flesh persecuted the man according to Spirit, so also now.

³⁶ And others took a trial of mockings and scourgings, and moreover of bonds and imprisonment.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

¹⁰ And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

⁶ But to the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, to the east country.

¹⁹ And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begot Isaac.

⁶ And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojourning could not bear them because of their cattle.

¹¹ And I say to you, that many will come from east and west, and will sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of the heavens, ¹² but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

¹³ Then the king said to the helpers, After binding him hands and feet, take him away and cast him out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

³⁵ And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age.

¹⁸ For if the inheritance is from law, it is no longer from promise. But God has given it to Abraham through promise.

⁷ So that thou are no longer a bondman but a son, and if a son, then an heir through Christ.

²² For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one from the servant girl, and one from the freewoman. ²³ But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise. ²⁴ Which things are allegorized, for these are two covenants, indeed one from mount Sinai giving birth for bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children. ²⁶ But the Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all. ²⁷ For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren woman not giving birth. Burst forth and shout, thou not suffering birth pains, because many more are the children of the desolate than of her who has the husband. ²⁸ Now we, brothers, who correspond to Isaac, are children of promise. ²⁹ But just as then, the man who was born according to flesh persecuted the man according to Spirit, so also now. ³⁰ Nevertheless, what does the scripture say? Send away the servant girl and her son, for the son of the servant girl will, no, not inherit with the son of the freewoman. ³¹ So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant girl, but of the freewoman.

⁴ for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they were of us, they would have continued with us, but-so that they might be made known, that they are not all of us.

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

¹ And it came to pass after these things, that God proved Abraham, and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Here I am. ² And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou love, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

³³ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

³⁷ He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

¹¹ But of course no chastening for the present seems to be of joy but of sorrow, yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

⁷ And LORD said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

⁹ Now therefore hearken to their voice. However thou shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure,

⁷ nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee. ⁸ That is, the children of the flesh, these are not children of God, instead, the children of the promise are reckoned for seed.

¹⁰ And the agent of LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

¹⁸ Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand, for I will make him a great nation.

¹² Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty-seven years. And he gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people. ¹⁸ And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur which is before Egypt, as thou go toward Assyria. He abode opposite all his brothers.

⁷ And the agent of LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before LORD.

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they swore both of them.

³³ And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of LORD, the Everlasting God.

³ And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men. And they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

⁵⁴ And they ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and tarried all night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.

³¹ And they rose up promptly in the morning, and swore one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³³ And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

¹⁵ And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field. And the man asked him, saying, What do thou seek?

¹ And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

³ And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life. And he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation.

⁶⁰ I made haste, and delayed not, to observe thy commandments.

¹⁴ He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

⁸ For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah. The lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness. Its shoots were spread abroad. They passed over the sea.

²³ But in fact, the man from the servant girl was born according to flesh, but the man from the freewoman through promise. ²⁴ Which things are allegorized, for these are two covenants, indeed one from mount Sinai giving birth for bondage, which is Hagar. ²⁵ For Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and it corresponds to the present Jerusalem, and is in bondage with her children.

¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

²² And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. ²³ And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah. ²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? ²⁵ And he cried to LORD. And LORD showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

¹ And all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of LORD, and encamped in Rephidim. And there was no water for the people to drink. ² Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said to them, Why do ye contend with me? Why do ye challenge LORD? ³ And the people thirsted there for water. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, Why have thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

⁹ So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom. And they made a circuit of seven days' journey, and there was no water for the army, nor for the beasts that followed them.

¹ O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.

¹² The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. Yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails. He drinks no water, and is faint.

³ And their ranking men send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads,

³⁸ And Esau said to his father, Have thou but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

¹¹ And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

⁴ And it came to pass, when the agent of LORD spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁹ LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

⁴ Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

²⁶ Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine. Divide it.

⁶ For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

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.

²⁰ And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.

¹ After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.

⁹ And the agent of LORD said to her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

¹¹ And the agent of LORD said to her, Behold, thou are with child, and shall bear a son, and thou shall call his name Ishmael, because LORD has heard thy affliction.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will there make of thee a great nation.

⁷ And LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

¹³ And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not. Stand still, and see the salvation of LORD, which he will work for you today, for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.

²³ If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,

²⁷ for that is his only covering. It is his garment for his skin. How shall he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

²³ And they cried out to the sons of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What troubles thee that thou come with such a company?

⁵ And, behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field, and Saul said, What troubles the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

⁴ And Jehoahaz besought LORD, and LORD hearkened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.

²³ But LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence as yet.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.

² O thou who hear prayer, to thee all flesh shall come.

¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

⁴ They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city of habitation. ⁵ Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ⁶ Then they cried to LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles thee now, that thou have wholly gone up to the housetops?

¹⁰ Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹³ For I, LORD thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying to thee, Fear not, I will help thee. ¹⁴ Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel. I will help thee, says LORD, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

¹ But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine. ² When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon thee.

³² And Jesus having summoned his disciples, he said, I feel compassion toward the multitude because they continue with me now three days and do not have what they might eat. And I do not want to dismiss them without food, lest they might faint on the way.

³⁶ But straightaway, Jesus, having heard the word spoken, says to the ruler of the synagogue, Fear not, only believe.

¹³ And also I will make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is thy seed.

²⁹ These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ³⁰ Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema, ³¹ Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

³¹ Then LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the agent of LORD standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand. And he bowed his head, and fell on his face.

¹⁷ And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see. And LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. ¹⁸ And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. ¹⁹ And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. And he led them to Samaria. ²⁰ And it came to pass, when they came into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see. And LORD opened their eyes, and they saw. And, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

⁵ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. ⁶ Then the lame man shall leap as a hart, and the tongue of the mute shall sing. For waters in the wilderness shall break out, and streams in the desert.

¹⁶ But their eyes were held, not to recognize him. ¹⁷ And he said to them, What are these words that ye toss back to each other, while walking and are looking sad. ¹⁸ And one, whose name was Cleopas, having answered, said to him, Thou only visit Jerusalem and do not know the things that happened in it during these days? ¹⁹ And he said to them, What? And they said to him, The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who became a prophet, a mighty man in work and word before God and all the people, ²⁰ and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up for condemnation of death, and crucified him. ²¹ But we hoped that he is the man who is going to redeem Israel. But even with all these things, it brings this third day today from which time these things happened. ²² But also some of our women astonished us, having come to be at the sepulcher early morning. ²³ And not having found his body, they came, saying also to have seen a vision of agents who say he is alive. ²⁴ And some of those with us went to the sepulcher, and found it this way, just as also the women said, but they did not see him. ²⁵ And he said to them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets spoke. ²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory? ²⁷ And having begun from Moses and from all the prophets, he expounded to them in all the scriptures the things about himself. ²⁸ And they came near to the village where they were going, and he pretended to go further. ²⁹ And they constrained him, saying, Remain with us, because it is toward evening, and the day has declined. And he went in to remain with them. ³⁰ And it came to pass during his dining with them, that, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken in pieces he gave to them. ³¹ And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he became invisible from them.

⁹ He was a mighty hunter before LORD. Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before LORD.

¹² And he will be a wild donkey among men, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers.

²⁷ And the boys grew. And Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field. And Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

³ Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take venison for me.

¹⁵ And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee wherever thou go, and will bring thee again into this land. For I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

² And LORD was with Joseph. And he was a man who succeeds. And he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. ³ And his master saw that LORD was with him, and that LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

²¹ But LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

²³ The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and persecute him, ²⁴ but his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

¹² And the agent of LORD appeared to him, and said to him, LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

²⁴ And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson. And the child grew, and LORD blessed him. ²⁵ And the Spirit of LORD began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

⁸⁰ And the child grew, and became strong in spirit. And he was in the desolate regions until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

⁴⁰ And the child grew, and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom. And the grace of God was upon it.

³ And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. ⁴ But thou shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

³⁴ And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. ³⁵ And they were a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

¹² And the sons of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

¹⁶ And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

³ And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of LORD. All of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

²⁶ And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh, and brought back word to them, and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.

² And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me to wife.

¹ And Samuel died. And all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

³⁸ And therefore he who gives in marriage does well, but he who does not give in marriage does better.

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

¹⁷ And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bore sons.

²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

²⁸ And they said, We saw plainly that LORD was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and thee. And let us make a covenant with thee,

²⁷ And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry, for I have learned by experience that LORD has blessed me for thy sake.

⁷ And LORD said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

¹ And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom. And LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing. Speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us.

¹⁴ Thus says LORD: The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to thee, and they shall be thine. They shall go after thee. In chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down to thee. They shall make supplication to thee, saying, Surely God is in thee, and there is none else, no God.

²³ Thus says LORD of hosts: In those days, ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

²³ Behold, the virgin will have in her womb, and will bring forth a son. And they will call his name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.

³¹ What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

²⁵ And so the secrets of his heart are made manifest. And so having fallen down on his face he will worship God, declaring that God is really among you.

⁵ The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee.

⁹ Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, those who say themselves to be Jews, and are not, but lie, behold, I will make them so that they will come and bow down before thy feet, and may know that I have loved thee.

²² And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, ²³ that I will not take a thread nor a shoe latchet nor anything that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,

¹⁴ And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored to him Sarah his wife.

³ And I will make thee swear by LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou will not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

⁴⁴ And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

⁵³ The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

¹³ Thou shall fear LORD thy God, and him thou shall serve, and shall swear by his name.

¹² Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token,

¹³ LORD do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do thee evil, if I not disclose it to thee, and send thee away that thou may go in peace. And LORD be with thee as he has been with my father.

¹⁷ And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.

⁴² And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of LORD, saying, LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, forever. And he arose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.

²¹ Swear now therefore to me by LORD, that thou will not cut off my seed after me, and that thou will not destroy my name out of my father's house. ²² And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home, but David and his men got up to the stronghold.

¹⁵ And David said to him, Will thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear to me by God, that thou will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.

² And thou shall swear, As LORD lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. And the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him they shall glory.

²³ But I call God for a witness upon my soul, that I did not yet come to Corinth, sparing you.

¹⁶ For men certainly swear by the greater, and of every dispute with them the oath is final for confirmation.

¹³ And some man came who had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew. Now he dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner. And these were allies with Abram.

¹⁸ If possible from you, keeping peace with all men,

⁷ And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land.

¹⁵ Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with soil. ¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us, for thou are much mightier than we. ¹⁷ And Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. ¹⁸ And Isaac again dug the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. ¹⁹ And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. ²⁰ And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. ²¹ And they dug another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name of it Sitnah. ²² And he moved from there, and dug another well, and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

⁸ And they said, We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. ¹⁶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. ¹⁷ And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

¹⁵ And she said to him, Give me a blessing, since thou have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

¹⁰ A rebuke enters deeper into him who has understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool.

⁹ Debate thy case with thy neighbor himself, and disclose not the secret of another,

⁵ Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

¹⁵ But if thy brother should sin against thee, go and reprove him between thee and him alone. If he should hear thee, thou have gained thy brother.

²⁰ But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought. As LORD lives, I will run after him, and take something from him. ²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well? ²² And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment. ²³ And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants, and they bore them before him. ²⁴ And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house, and he let the men go, and they departed.

²⁸ And they said, We saw plainly that LORD was with thee. And we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and thee. And let us make a covenant with thee, ²⁹ that thou will do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace. Thou are now the blessed of LORD. ³⁰ And he made a feast for them, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And they rose up promptly in the morning, and swore one to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

⁸ A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who has it; wherever it turns, it prospers.

¹⁶ A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

²⁴ He who makes many friends does it to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁴ A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a present in the bosom, strong wrath.

⁸ But a noble man devises noble things, and in noble things he shall continue.

¹³ And he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,

³¹ without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

¹⁵ Brothers (I speak according to a man), in the same way of a man, no man annuls or adds to a contract that has been ratified.

⁸ And he said, What do thou mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

²⁶ And it shall come to pass, when your sons shall say to you, What do ye mean by this service?

¹⁴ And Samuel said, What then means this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

⁴⁴ And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou, and let it be for a witness between me and thee. ⁴⁵ And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. ⁴⁶ And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones, and they took stones, and made a heap. And they ate there by the heap. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. ⁴⁸ And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore the name of it was called Galeed,

⁵² This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

²⁷ but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, Ye have no portion in LORD. ²⁸ Therefore we said, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you.

²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of LORD which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.

²³ And he went up from there to Beersheba.

²⁸ and Hazar-shual, and Beersheba, and Biziothiah,

¹ Then all the sons of Israel went out. And the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to LORD at Mizpah.

¹¹ But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

²⁵ And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

¹⁴ and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where the Philistines went forth), and Caphtorim.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. And the two made a covenant.

⁸ And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.

¹⁴ And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, Lest perhaps the people regret when they see war, and they return to Egypt.

¹ And the sons of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

²⁶ And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of LORD.

⁸ And he moved from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to LORD, and called upon the name of LORD.

²⁵ And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

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.

²⁷ The eternal God is thy dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said, Destroy.

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.

² Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

²⁸ Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁰ But LORD is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, lives, and, As the way of Beersheba lives, they shall fall, and never rise up again.

²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.

²⁶ but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

¹ And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.

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.

¹² Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

⁹ By faith he lived alien in the land of promise as a foreigner, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise.

¹³ All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth.

¹¹ Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and sojourners, to abstain from the fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.