Genesis 24 Cross References - ACV

¹ And Abraham was old, well stricken in age. And LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. ² And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh. 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. ⁵ And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came? ⁶ And Abraham said to him, Beware thou that thou not bring my son there again. ⁷ LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his agent before thee, and thou shall take a wife for my son from there. ⁸ And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shall be clear from this my oath. Only thou shall not bring my son there again. ⁹ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. ¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. ¹¹ And he made the camels to kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. ¹² And he said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. ¹³ Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴ And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou have appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby I shall know that thou have shown kindness to my master. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, before he was done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. ¹⁶ And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. ¹⁷ And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher. ¹⁸ And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. ¹⁹ And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. ²⁰ And she hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. ²¹ And the man looked steadfastly on her, keeping silent, to know whether LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. ²² And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, ²³ and said, Whose daughter are thou? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? ²⁴ And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor. ²⁵ She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. ²⁶ And the man bowed his head, and worshiped LORD. ²⁷ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers. ²⁸ And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words. ²⁹ And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man, to the fountain. ³⁰ And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me, that he came to the man. And, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain. ³¹ And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels. ³² And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels. And he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. ³³ And there was set before him food to eat. But he said, I will not eat until I have told my errand. And he said, Speak on. ³⁴ And he said, I am Abraham's servant. ³⁵ And LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys. ³⁶ And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And has he given to him all that he has. ³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell, ³⁸ but thou shall go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. ³⁹ And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not follow me. ⁴⁰ And he said to me, LORD, before whom I walk, will send his agent with thee, and prosper thy way. And thou shall take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house. ⁴¹ Then thou shall be clear from my oath, when thou come to my kindred. And if they do not give her to thee, thou shall be clear from my oath. ⁴² And I came this day to the fountain, and said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if thou do now prosper my way which I go, ⁴³ behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and let it come to pass, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink, ⁴⁴ and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels, let the same be the woman whom LORD has appointed for my master's son. ⁴⁵ And before I was done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain, and drew. And I said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee. ⁴⁶ And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also. ⁴⁷ And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. ⁴⁸ And I bowed my head, and worshiped LORD, and blessed LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son. ⁴⁹ And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left. ⁵⁰ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good. ⁵¹ Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as LORD has spoken. ⁵² And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to LORD. ⁵³ And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother. 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. ⁵⁵ And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten. After that she shall go. ⁵⁶ And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master. ⁵⁷ And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth. ⁵⁸ And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will thou go with this man? And she said, I will go. ⁵⁹ And they sent Rebekah their sister away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men. ⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them. ⁶¹ And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. ⁶² And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, for he dwelt in the land of the South. ⁶³ And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming. ⁶⁴ And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. ⁶⁵ And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself. ⁶⁶ And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. ⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.

³⁵ And LORD has blessed my master greatly, and he has become great. And he has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

²⁵ even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that couches beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

¹ Now king David was old and stricken in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he did not get warm.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

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

² Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. For when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

³³ But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

⁷ And there was no child to them because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both advanced in their days.

⁹ So then those from faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for all things, having promise of the present life, and of that which is coming.

² And Abram said, O lord LORD, what will thou give me, since I go childless. And he who shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

⁹ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter. ¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

⁴ And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him. And he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand. ⁵ And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake. And the blessing of LORD was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field. ⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he knew nothing that was with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was comely, and well-favored.

⁸ But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. ⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

¹ And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

²⁹ And the time drew near that Israel must die. And he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt,

²⁴ And all the rulers, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

¹⁷ Let the elders who rule well be regarded worthy of double compensation, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.

⁴ The giants were on the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came to the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

¹⁵ And Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth, ¹⁶ and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, ¹⁷ and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, ¹⁸ and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad. ¹⁹ And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou go toward Gerar, to Gaza, as thou go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

¹⁹ And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

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 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.

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.

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?

⁸ And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan did not please Isaac his father.

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, ⁴⁹ and Mizpah. For he said, May LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another, ⁵⁰ if thou will afflict my daughters, and if thou will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us, see, God is witness between me and thee. ⁵¹ And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set between me and thee. 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. 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.

²⁵ And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from here.

⁷ Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

¹¹ the oath of LORD shall be between them both, whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's goods. And the owner of it shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

¹³ And in all things that I have said to you take ye heed, and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

¹⁶ and thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

¹² And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of thy God. I am LORD.

²¹ then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people when LORD makes thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell.

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

³ Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son. ⁴ For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods, so the anger of LORD will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.

²⁰ Thou shall fear LORD thy God. Him thou shall serve, and to him thou shall cling, and by his name thou shall swear.

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,

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.

¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before LORD, and said, O LORD, the God of Israel, who sits above the cherubim, thou are the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. Thou have made heaven and earth.

¹² Huram said moreover, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

⁶ Thou are LORD, even thou alone, thou have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preserve them all. And the host of heaven worships thee.

²⁵ And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

¹⁵ Blessed are ye of LORD who made heaven and earth.

²³ By myself I have sworn, the word has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue will confess to God.

¹ Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness

¹⁶ so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

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.

¹¹ Thus ye shall say to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As LORD lives, even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

⁵ and those who worship the host of heaven upon the housetops, and those who worship, who swear to LORD and swear by Malcam,

³⁹ A wife is bound by law as long a time as her husband lives, but also if the husband should sleep, she is free to be married to whom she desires, only in the Lord.

¹⁴ Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what share have believers with non-believers? ¹⁶ And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me. ¹⁷ Therefore, Come ye out from among them, and be ye separated, says the Lord, And touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you

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

²⁵ And Nahor lived a hundred and nineteen years after he begot Terah, and begot sons and daughters.

⁷ And LORD appeared to Abram, and said, I will give this land to thy seed. And there he built an altar to LORD, who appeared to him.

²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his first born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. ²³ And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

² Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.

⁵⁸ And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.

² For if thou refuse to let them go, and will still hold them,

¹⁶ Every prudent man works with knowledge, but a fool flaunts folly.

¹ Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

³⁹ But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

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. ¹⁴ For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return. ¹⁶ But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

²⁰ For if, having escaped the defilements of the world by knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and, having been again entangled in these, they are overcome, the last things have become worse for them than the first. ²¹ For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. ²² But that of the true proverb has happened to them, The dog returning to his own vomit, and the sow that washed to wallowing in mire.

¹ Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee. ² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing. ³ And I will bless those who bless thee, and he who curses thee I will curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ⁴ So Abram went as LORD had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. ⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan. ⁶ And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. ⁷ And LORD appeared to Abram, and said, I will give this land to thy seed. And there he built an altar to LORD, who appeared to him.

¹⁵ For all the land which thou see, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed forever.

¹⁸ In that day LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To thy seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

¹⁶ and said, By myself I have sworn, says LORD, because thou have done this thing, and have not withheld thy son, thine only son, ¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies, ¹⁸ and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou have obeyed my voice.

³ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For to thee, and to thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham thy father. ⁴ And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

²⁴ And LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

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.

²⁰ Behold, I send an agent before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him. ²² But if thou shall indeed hearken to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries. ²³ For my agent shall go before thee, and bring thee in to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, and I will cut them off.

¹³ Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swore by thine own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

² And I will send an agent before thee, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite-

¹⁶ Because LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.

³⁰ surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell in it, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹¹ Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

⁸ Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their seed after them.

⁴ And LORD said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to thy seed. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shall not go over there.

⁶ Be strong and of good courage, for thou shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

¹ And the agent of LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers. And I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

² Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has LORD, the God of heaven, given me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

⁸ I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shall go. I will counsel thee with my eye upon thee.

⁷ The agent of LORD encamps round about those who fear him, and delivers them.

²⁴ Thou will guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

²⁰ Bless LORD, ye his agents, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, hearkening to the voice of his word.

⁵ Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. ⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the agent of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. And he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

⁴⁴ And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty of it be left to another people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

⁹ And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, and I fear LORD, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.

⁵ And he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep. And he promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, although there was no child by him.

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth for service for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation?

¹³ And in that day a great earthquake occurred, and the tenth part of the city fell. And seven thousand names of men were killed in the earthquake. And the rest became afraid, and gave glory to the God of heaven.

⁴ But thou shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. ⁵ And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came? ⁶ And Abraham said to him, Beware thou that thou not bring my son there again.

⁵ But if her father disallows her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand. And LORD will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

⁸ But if her husband disallows her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul. And LORD will forgive her.

¹⁷ And the men said to her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou have made us to swear. ¹⁸ Behold, when we come into the land, thou shall bind this line of scarlet cord in the window which thou let us down by. And thou shall gather to thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brothers, and all thy father's household. ¹⁹ And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless. And whoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head if any hand be upon him. ²⁰ But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou have made us to swear.

²⁰ This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.

³² and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.

² And he said, Men! Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.

² And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh.

³¹ And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. And they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

⁴³ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice, and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran.

¹ Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.

⁴ And Jacob said to them, My brothers, where are ye from? And they said, We are of Haran. ⁵ And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

²² And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. And whatever they did there, he was the doer of it. ²³ The keeper of the prison did not look to anything that was under his hand, because LORD was with him, and that which he did, LORD made it prosper.

⁴ because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

⁸ Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia, And the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. ⁹ And when the sons of Israel cried to LORD, LORD raised up a savior to the sons of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. ¹⁰ And the Spirit of LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. And he went out to war, and LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand, and his hand prevailed against Cushan-rishathaim.

⁶ And when the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.

⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, and Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

¹³ Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴ And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou have appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby I shall know that thou have shown kindness to my master. ¹⁵ And it came to pass, before he was done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. ¹⁶ And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her. And she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. ¹⁷ And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher. ¹⁸ And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. ¹⁹ And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. ²⁰ And she hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

¹³ And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. ¹⁴ Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.

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.

¹¹ As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?

¹⁰ A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

⁷ A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.

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.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.

²⁷ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

⁴² And I came this day to the fountain, and said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if thou do now prosper my way which I go,

⁴⁸ And I bowed my head, and worshiped LORD, and blessed LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

¹⁰ And thou shall bring it to thy father, that he may eat, so that he may bless thee before his death.

²⁰ And Isaac said to his son, How is it that thou have found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because LORD thy God sent me good speed.

¹³ And, behold, LORD stood above it, and said, I am LORD, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which thou lie, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed.

⁴² Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now thou would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee last night.

⁹ And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, Return to thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good,

¹⁴ And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved.

⁶ Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

¹⁵ And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall thou say to the sons of Israel, LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

³⁶ And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening oblation, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou are God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

¹⁴ And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and struck the waters, and said, Where is LORD, the God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided here and there, and Elisha went over.

¹¹ O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name, and, I pray thee, prosper thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was cupbearer to the king.

⁴ Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

⁵ Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

¹⁶ Let thy work appear to thy servants, and thy glory upon their sons. ¹⁷ And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

²⁵ Save now, we beseech thee, O LORD. O LORD, we beseech thee, send now prosperity.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper who love thee.

¹ Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not God of the dead, but of the living.

⁶ Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.

¹⁰ praying night and day above extraordinary in order to see your face and to mend the deficiencies of your faith? ¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

¹¹ And he made the camels to kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

⁴³ behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and let it come to pass, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink,

⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them. ¹⁰ And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

¹¹ Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, there they shall rehearse the righteous acts of LORD, the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of LORD went down to the gates.

⁸ And he said, O lord LORD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

⁴⁴ and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels, let the same be the woman whom LORD has appointed for my master's son.

¹ And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to my voice, for they will say, LORD has not appeared to thee. ² And LORD said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod. ³ And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the ground. And it became a serpent, and Moses fled from before it. ⁴ And LORD said to Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand), ⁵ that they may believe that LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to thee. ⁶ And LORD said furthermore to him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom. And when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as snow. ⁷ And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.) ⁸ And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, nor hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. ⁹ And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, nor hearken to thy voice, that thou shall take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land. And the water which thou take out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

¹⁷ And he said to him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou who talk with me.

³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor. If there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then I shall know that thou will save Israel by my hand as thou have spoken.

¹³ And when Gideon came, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. And he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream. And, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat. ¹⁴ And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else except the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the army. ¹⁵ And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped. And he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise, for LORD has delivered the army of Midian into your hand.

⁵ And they said to him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

⁷ Now therefore take and prepare for you a new cart, and two milk cows on which there has come no yoke. And tie the cows to the cart, and bring their calves home from them. ⁸ And take the ark of LORD, and lay it upon the cart. And put the jewels of gold, which ye return to him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side of it, and send it away, that it may go. ⁹ And watch. If it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done to us this great evil, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

² When thou are departed from me today, then thou shall find two men by Rachel's sepulcher in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah. And they will say to thee, The donkeys which thou went to seek are found, and, lo, thy father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son? ³ Then thou shall go on forward from there, and thou shall come to the oak of Tabor. And there shall meet thee there three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine. ⁴ And they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shall receive from their hand. ⁵ After that thou shall come to the hill of God where is the garrison of the Philistines. And it shall come to pass, when thou have come there to the city, that thou shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them, and they will be prophesying. ⁶ And the Spirit of LORD will come mightily upon thee, and thou shall prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man. ⁷ And let it be, when these signs have come to thee, that thou do as occasion shall serve thee, for God is with thee. ⁸ And thou shall go down before me to Gilgal. And, behold, I will come down to thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings. Thou shall tarry seven days till I come to thee, and show thee what thou shall do. ⁹ And it was so, that, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all those signs came to pass that day. ¹⁰ And when they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him. And the Spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.

⁸ Then Jonathan said, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose ourselves to them. ⁹ If they say thus to us, Tarry until we come to you, then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say thus, Come up to us, then we will go up, for LORD has delivered them into our hand, and this shall be the sign to us.

⁷ If he says thus, It is well. Thy servant shall have peace. But if he is angry, then know that evil is determined by him.

²⁴ And it shall be, when thou hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shall bestir thyself, for then LORD has gone out before thee to smite the army of the Philistines.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

⁸ And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of LORD the third day? ⁹ And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to thee from LORD, that LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: Shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps? ¹⁰ And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward ten steps. ¹¹ And Isaiah the prophet cried to LORD, and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.

¹¹ Ask thee a sign of LORD thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

¹⁰ pleading, if somehow now at last I will have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come to you.

²⁷ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran begot Lot.

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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.

²⁴ And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

⁴⁵ And before I was done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain, and drew. And I said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

⁹ While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

³⁶ And Gideon said to God, If thou will save Israel by my hand, as thou have spoken, ³⁷ behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor. If there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then I shall know that thou will save Israel by my hand as thou have spoken. ³⁸ And it was so, for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water. ³⁹ And Gideon said to God, Let not thine anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once. Let me make trial, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew. ⁴⁰ And God did so that night, for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

² And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.

¹⁷ So she gleaned in the field until evening. And she beat out that which she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

¹⁵ The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer.

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

¹⁸ LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth. ¹⁹ He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry and will save them.

²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

⁹ Then thou shall call, and LORD will answer, thou shall cry, and he will say, Here I am. If thou take the yoke away from the midst of thee, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly,

²⁴ And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

²⁰ And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God, ²¹ yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. ²² And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I have now come forth to give thee wisdom and understanding. ²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell thee, for thou are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

¹ And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from LORD.

⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife, Lest, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon.

⁶ And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand, and he knew nothing that was with him, save the bread which he ate. And Joseph was comely, and well-favored.

¹⁷ Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has known man by lying with him. ¹⁸ But all the women-children, who have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

² I was asleep, but my heart awoke. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled. For my head is filled with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.

¹ And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. ² And LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. ³ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee. For to thee, and to thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham thy father. ⁴ And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to thy seed all these lands, and in thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, ⁵ because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my order, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. ⁶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. ⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife, Lest, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was fair to look upon. 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. ⁹ And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife, and how did thou say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou would have brought guiltiness upon us. ¹¹ And Abimelech ordered all the people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. ¹² And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And LORD blessed him. ¹³ And the man became great, and grew more and more until he became very great. ¹⁴ And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him. 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. ²³ And he went up from there to Beersheba. ²⁴ And LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. 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. ²⁶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. ²⁷ And Isaac said to them, Why have ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 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. ³² And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water. ³³ And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

¹⁰ So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel that I may drink.

¹⁴ To him who was thirsty they brought water. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.

²⁵ And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

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. ⁷ And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. In the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

¹⁷ The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst. I, LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. ¹⁸ I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. For he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them even by springs of water.

⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How do thou, being Jewish, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman, for Jews do not associate with Samaritans?

¹⁴ And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou have appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby I shall know that thou have shown kindness to my master.

²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the law of kindness is on her tongue.

⁸ And finally, all be like-minded, sympathetic, brother-loving, compassionate, friendly,

⁸ And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins, ⁹ stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

⁴⁵ And before I was done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the fountain, and drew. And I said to her, Let me drink, I pray thee. ⁴⁶ And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

⁹ stranger-loving toward each other without complaints.

¹² And he said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

⁵⁶ And he said to them, Do not hinder me, since LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.

¹⁸ Then David the king went in, and sat before LORD. And he said, Who am I, O lord LORD, and what is my house, that thou have brought me thus far? ¹⁹ And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O lord LORD, but thou have spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and this too according to the manner of men, O lord LORD! ²⁰ And what can David say more to thee? For thou know thy servant, O lord LORD.

¹ I will bless LORD at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ² My soul shall make its boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad. ³ O magnify LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. ⁴ I sought LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. ⁵ They looked to him, and were radiant, and their faces shall never be confounded. ⁶ This poor man cried, and LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

¹ O give thanks to LORD, For he is good, for his loving kindness is forever.

⁸ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

¹⁵ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men!

⁴³ He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.

¹ I love LORD because he hears my voice and my supplications. ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live. ³ The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow. ⁴ Then I called upon the name of LORD. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. ⁵ Gracious is LORD, and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful. ⁶ LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me. ⁷ Return to thy rest, O my soul, for LORD has dealt bountifully with thee.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all these proclamations, pondering in her heart.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was being subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

¹⁵ My lord, hearken to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and thee? Therefore bury thy dead. ¹⁶ And Abraham hearkened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver that he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

³⁰ And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spoke the man to me, that he came to the man. And, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain.

⁴⁷ And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter are thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

² And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me. ³ And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

¹ Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, opposite the king's house. And the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the entrance of the house.

¹⁹ the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰ the bonnets, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets, ²¹ the rings, and the nose-jewels, ²² the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels, ²³ the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. ¹² And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

⁹ And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel, ¹⁰ but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

³ Of which let it not be the outward world of braiding of hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on apparel,

²⁰ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor:

²³ And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

¹⁵ And it came to pass, before he was done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

⁴ Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree. ⁵ And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart. After that ye shall pass on, inasmuch as ye came to your servant. And they said, Do so as thou have said. ⁶ And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes. ⁷ And Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it to the servant. And he hastened to dress it. ⁸ And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

¹⁹ Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys, and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man who is with thy servants. There is no want of anything. ²⁰ And the old man said, Peace be to thee. However let all thy wants lie upon me, only do not lodge in the street. ²¹ So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

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

⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go yonder, and we will worship, and come again to you.

⁵² And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to LORD.

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.

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.

⁸ And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

²⁰ And David said to all the assembly, Now praise LORD your God. And all the assembly praised LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and did obeisance to LORD, and the king.

¹⁸ And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before LORD, worshiping LORD.

³⁰ Moreover Hezekiah the king and the rulers commanded the Levites to sing praises to LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

⁶ And Ezra blessed LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Truly, Truly, with the lifting up of their hands. And they bowed their heads, and worshiped LORD with their faces to the ground.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

⁴ All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing to thee. They shall sing to thy name. Selah.

⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.

⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before LORD our maker.

⁶ With what shall I come before LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly,

²⁶ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of Shem. And let Canaan be his servant.

⁸ And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers.

²⁰ And blessed be God Most High, who has delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And Abram gave him a tenth of all.

⁴ But thou shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

²¹ And the man looked steadfastly on her, keeping silent, to know whether LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

¹⁰ I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou have shown to thy servant, for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

¹¹ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked on their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

¹³ And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together. And he said to him who did the wrong, Why do thou smite thy neighbor?

¹⁰ And Jethro said, Blessed be LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

¹⁴ And the women said to Naomi, Blessed be LORD, who has not left thee this day without a near kinsman. And let his name be famous in Israel.

³² And David said to Abigail, Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, who sent thee this day to meet me,

³⁹ And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil, and the evil-doing of Nabal LORD has returned upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

²⁸ And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. And he bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be LORD thy God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

¹⁰ Therefore David praised LORD before all the assembly. And David said, Blessed be thou, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. ¹¹ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou are exalted as head above all. ¹² Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rule over all. And in thy hand is power and might. And in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all. ¹³ Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burden daily, even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

¹⁸ Blessed be LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things. ¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name forever. And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Truly, and Truly.

³ He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

⁵ For LORD is good. His loving kindness is forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

¹¹ I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in paths of uprightness. ¹² When thou go, thy steps shall not be restricted. And if thou run, thou shall not stumble. ¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,

²⁰ Thou will perform the truth to Jacob, and the loving kindness to Abraham, which thou have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

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

¹⁷ Because the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came to be through Jesus Christ.

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.

⁵⁵ And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten. After that she shall go.

⁶⁷ And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

³³ And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.

⁵ And he said to them, Do ye know Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

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.

² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son from LORD.

¹⁰ And he said, Blessed be thou of LORD, my daughter. Thou have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou did not follow young men, whether poor or rich.

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.

⁴ Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

² and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, No, but we will abide in the street all night.

²⁴ And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. And he gave their donkeys provender.

²¹ So he brought him into his house, and gave the donkeys fodder. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.

⁴¹ And she arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

⁴⁴ And having turned to the woman, he said to Simon, See thou this woman? I entered into thy house; thou gave no water for my feet. But this woman has wet my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

⁴ rises from supper, and set his garments aside, and after taking a towel, he girded himself. ⁵ Then he pours water into the wash-basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. ⁶ So he comes to Simon Peter, and that man says to him, Lord, do thou wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou do not know now, but thou will understand after these things. ⁸ Peter says to him, Thou may, no, not wash my feet into the age. Jesus answered him, If I may not wash thee, thou have no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter says to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and head. ¹⁰ Jesus says to him, He who is bathed has no need to wash the feet either, but is entirely clean. And ye are clean, but not all. ¹¹ For he knew the man betraying him. Because of this he said, Ye are not all clean. ¹² When therefore he washed their feet, and took his garments, having sat down again, he said to them, Do ye understand what I have done to you? ¹³ Ye call me, Teacher, and, Lord. And ye say well, for I am. ¹⁴ If I then, the Lord and the teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash each other's feet.

¹⁰ being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips, I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

³ Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed, ⁴ I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, ⁵ until I find out a place for LORD, a tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.

²⁹ See thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before obscure men.

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.

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will, no, not thirst into the age. But the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.

³¹ In the meanwhile the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat. ³² But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not. ³³ The disciples therefore said to each other, Did any man bring him to eat? ³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I do the will of him who sent me, and may finish his work.

⁵ Bondmen, be obedient to the masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ. ⁶ Not according to eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, ⁷ bond-serving with goodwill, as to the Lord and not to men. ⁸ Knowing that whatever good thing each may do, he will receive this from the Lord, whether bondman or freeman.

² And those who have believing masters, let them not disparage them because they are brothers, instead let them serve more because they are believers and beloved-those who are recipients of the benefit. Teach and exhort these things.

¹⁶ And he dealt well with Abram for her sake. And he had sheep, and oxen, and he-donkeys, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-donkeys, and camels.

¹ And Abraham was old, well stricken in age. And LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

¹¹ And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

¹² And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And LORD blessed him. ¹³ And the man became great, and grew more and more until he became very great. ¹⁴ And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.

³ His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

¹⁰ And LORD turned back the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. ¹¹ Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD had brought upon him. Each man also gave him a piece of money, and each one a ring of gold. ¹² So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

³⁵ Thou have also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand has held me up, and thy gentleness has made me great.

³⁸ He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly, and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.

³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

⁴ The reward of humility and the fear of LORD is riches and honor and life.

²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took wives to themselves. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. ³⁰ And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. 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. 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? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee! 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.

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. 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? 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.

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.

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.

⁵ And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

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.

² And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, Put thy hand, I pray thee, under my thigh. 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. ⁵ And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came? ⁶ And Abraham said to him, Beware thou that thou not bring my son there again. ⁷ LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his agent before thee, and thou shall take a wife for my son from there. ⁸ And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shall be clear from this my oath. Only thou shall not bring my son there again. ⁹ And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

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?

¹ Now when these things were done, the rulers drew near to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. ² For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yea, the hand of the heads and rulers has been chief in this trespass. ³ And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

¹ Now LORD said to Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will show thee.

¹⁹ Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

⁵ And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I bring thy son again to the land from where thou came?

²² And Enoch walked with God after he begot Methuselah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

²⁴ And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

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.

⁷ LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his agent before thee, and thou shall take a wife for my son from there.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

²⁰ Behold, I send an agent before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

³ and keep the charge of LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that thou may prosper in all that thou do, and wherever thou turn thyself.

²³ And he said, O LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with thy servants, who walk before thee with all their heart,

³ Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept greatly.

³ And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does shall prosper.

⁸ I beheld LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

¹¹ for he will give his agents charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

²⁸ Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his agent, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

⁸ And I am John, the man hearing and seeing these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the agent showing me these things.

¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my agent to testify these things to you for the congregations. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star.

⁸ And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shall be clear from this my oath. Only thou shall not bring my son there again.

¹² that thou may enter into the covenant of LORD thy God, and into his oath, which LORD thy God makes with thee this day,

¹² And he said, O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray thee, good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham. ¹³ Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. ¹⁴ And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink. And she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also. Let the same be she that thou have appointed for thy servant Isaac. And thereby I shall know that thou have shown kindness to my master.

³¹ And he said, Come in, thou blessed of LORD. Why do thou stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

³ And his master saw that LORD was with him, and that LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

²¹ Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

¹⁷ And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us. And establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

⁷ And when the agent speaking to Cornelius departed, having called two of his housemen, and a devout soldier of those who personally served him, ⁸ and after reporting all things to them, he sent them to Joppa.

²² And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and being well testified by the whole nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy agent to summon thee to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.

²² And the rib, which LORD God had taken from the man, he made a woman, and brought her to the man.

³³ The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of LORD.

²² He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.

¹⁰ but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.

² Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged agents, unaware.

¹³ Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk. ¹⁴ And Eli said to her, How long will thou be drunken? Put away thy wine from thee. ¹⁵ And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before LORD.

²⁷ For thou, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house. Therefore thy servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to thee.

¹⁹ O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, hearken and do. Defer not, for thine own sake, O my God, because thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment went forth, and I have come to tell thee, for thou are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

⁷ Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and ye will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.

²⁴ And those who heard lifted up a voice to God with one accord, and said, Thou Master, the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them. ²⁵ He who said through the mouth of thy boy David, Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things? ²⁶ The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord, and against his Christ. ²⁷ For in truth, against thy holy Boy Jesus, whom thou anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together, ²⁸ to do as many things as thy hand and thy purpose predetermined to happen. ²⁹ And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word, ³⁰ by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus. ³¹ And when they prayed, the place in which they were assembled was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. ³² And the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. And not even one man said that anything of the things that was possessed by him was his own, but all things were common to them. ³³ And with great power the apostles gave back the testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

³⁰ And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour, and the ninth hour praying in my house. And behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel.

¹² And having realized it, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, surnamed Mark, where a considerable were gathered and praying. ¹³ And when Peter knocked the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to hearken. ¹⁴ And after recognizing Peter's voice, she did not open the gate for joy, but having ran in, she reported Peter was standing in front of the gate. ¹⁵ And they said to her, Thou are mad. But she insisted to have it so. But they said, It is his agent. ¹⁶ But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him, and were astonished. ¹⁷ But after motioning to them with the hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison. And he said, Report these things to James, and to the brothers. And having departed, he went to a different place.

²⁶ And likewise also the Spirit helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we would pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

¹⁸ And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. ¹⁹ And when she had finished giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

²² And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold, ²³ and said, Whose daughter are thou? Tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in? ²⁴ And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.

⁵³ And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

⁹ Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women. At thy right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹³ Inside, the king's daughter is all glorious. Her clothing is embroidered with gold. ¹⁴ She shall be led to the king in broidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to thee.

³ Thou shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. ⁴ Thou shall no more be termed Forsaken, nor shall thy land any more be termed Desolate. But thou shall be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah, for LORD delights in thee, and thy land shall be married. ⁵ For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee. And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

¹⁰ I also clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee with a certain skin. And I girded thee around with fine linen, and covered thee with silk. ¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. ¹² And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head. ¹³ Thus thou were decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou ate fine flour, and honey, and oil. And thou were very beautiful, and thou prospered to royalty.

²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished.

²⁶ And the man bowed his head, and worshiped LORD. ²⁷ And he said, Blessed be LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master's brothers.

²⁰ And thou shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

¹⁴ For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

⁷ He also led them by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

¹¹ I have taught thee in the way of wisdom. I have led thee in paths of uprightness.

¹⁷ Thus says LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am LORD thy God, who teaches thee to profit, who leads thee by the way that thou should go.

¹⁷ Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.

²⁷ Let me pass through thy land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours if ye do not utter this our business. And it shall be, when LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

³ Let not kindness and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart,

²⁸ And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.

²⁴ And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

²⁹ It is in the power of my hand to do you harm, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, Take heed to thyself that thou not speak to Jacob either good or bad.

²² And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

²³ This is LORD's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

⁴² Jesus says to them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be in the head of the corner. This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

¹¹ This happened from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

¹⁷ If then God gave to them the identical gift as also to us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, but what power was I to hinder God?

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee. Dwell where it pleases thee.

¹⁰ And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because LORD has said to him, Curse David, who then shall say, Why have thou done so?

²⁶ And the man bowed his head, and worshiped LORD.

¹ I will bless LORD at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. ² My soul shall make its boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

²¹ O that men would praise LORD for his loving kindness, and for his wonderful works to the sons of men! ²² And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

¹ I love LORD because he hears my voice and my supplications. ² Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call as long as I live.

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.

²⁵ And when it came about for Peter to enter, Cornelius, having met him, after falling down at his feet, worshiped. ²⁶ But Peter lifted him up, saying, Stand up. I am also myself a man.

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

²² And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

²² But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her who sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. And ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters, and ye shall despoil the Egyptians.

² Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

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.

¹³ And of Joseph he said, Blessed of LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that couches beneath, ¹⁴ and for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of the growth of the moons, ¹⁵ and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills, ¹⁶ and for the precious things of the earth and the fullness of it, and the good will of him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers.

³ And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah. But the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.

⁶ And all those who were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

¹³ Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,

² And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah did not show them.

⁵⁹ And they sent Rebekah their sister away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

⁵ And Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. ⁶ Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take for him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him an order, saying, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. And he said to them, See that ye not fall out by the way.

¹⁹ Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, Let me now run, and bear the king news, how that LORD has avenged him of his enemies.

²⁷ And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and comes with good news. ²⁸ And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, All is well. And he bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be LORD thy God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

¹⁰ Say thou not, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? For thou do not inquire wisely concerning this.

³⁸ But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him to be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ Return to thy house, and relate everything God did for thee. And he departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city how many things Jesus did for him.

³ And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought an offering to LORD of the fruit of the ground.

²⁹ And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

⁸ And after a while he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

⁹ Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says thy son Joseph: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, delay not. ¹⁰ And thou shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shall be near to me, thou, and thy sons, and thy sons' sons, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou have. ¹¹ And there will I nourish thee, for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou have. ¹² And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaks to you. ¹³ And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen. And ye shall hasten and bring down my father here.

⁸ This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shall meditate on it day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success.

²⁵ As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

¹⁵ I, even I, have spoken, yea, I have called him. I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. ¹¹ So will the king desire thy beauty, for he is thy lord, and reverence thou him.

³⁸ And Mary said, Behold the maid-servant of the Lord. May it happen to me according to thy word. And the agent departed from her.

⁵⁰ Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from LORD; we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

⁸ And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak. And the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

¹² Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them forth, that thou should say to me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nurturing father carries the sucking child, to the land which thou swore to their fathers?

⁵ For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)

²⁸ And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and have power over it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.

¹ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

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.

¹⁷ that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

³ And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou may be a company of peoples,

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, ¹⁶ the agent who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

²⁰ And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

⁴⁶ And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

¹⁹ then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.

¹¹ And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. LORD make the woman that has come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem. ¹² And let thy house be like the house of Perez whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which LORD shall give thee by this young woman.

¹⁰ A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were opened.

²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find them.

¹⁷ And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.

¹⁰ And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by post on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's service bred of the stud,

¹⁴ So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

⁹ And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

¹⁴ Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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

² but his delight is in the law of LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

¹¹ I will make mention of the deeds of LORD, for I will remember thy wonders of old. ¹² I will meditate also upon all thy work, and muse on thy doings.

³⁴ Let thy meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in LORD.

¹⁵ I will meditate on thy precepts, and have respect for thy ways.

²⁷ Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, so I shall meditate on thy wondrous works.

⁴⁸ I will also lift up my hands to thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate on thy statutes.

¹⁷ How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! ¹⁸ I count them; they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

⁵ I remember the days of old. I meditate on all thy doings. I muse on the work of thy hands. ⁶ I spread forth my hands to thee. My soul is as a weary land for thee. Selah.

⁵ I will meditate on the glorious majesty of thine honor, and of thy wondrous works.

¹⁸ And it came to pass, when she came, that she moved him to ask of her father a field. And she alighted from off her donkey, and Caleb said, What would thou?

¹⁴ And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field. And she alighted from off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What would thou?

¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all who are with thee. And in regard to all thou are righted.

⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven. ⁶ For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

¹⁰ Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the agents.

⁹ And similarly, the women to adorn themselves in disciplined decorum, with reverence and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive apparel,

³⁰ And the apostles gather together to Jesus, and reported all to him, and how many things they did, and how many things they taught.

²² And the rib, which LORD God had taken from the man, he made a woman, and brought her to the man. ²³ And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

⁶ And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.

⁹ And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent. 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.

¹ And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah. ² And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

¹² And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. And Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

² I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me. I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

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. ² Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations. Spare not. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes. ³ For thou shall spread abroad on the right hand and on the left. And thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. ⁴ Fear not, for thou shall not be ashamed. Neither be thou confounded, for thou shall not be put to shame. For thou shall forget the shame of thy youth. And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shall remember no more. ⁵ For thy maker is thy husband. LORD of hosts is his name. And the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer. He shall be called the God of the whole earth.

¹ O that ye tolerated a little of my foolishness, but tolerate me too. ² For I am jealous for you with a jealousy of God. For I betrothed you to one husband, a pure virgin to present to the Christ.

²² Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. ²³ Because a husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church, and himself the savior of the body. ²⁴ But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. ²⁵ Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it, ²⁶ so that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ so that he might present it to himself, the glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church, ³⁰ because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones. ³¹ Separate from this a man will leave his father and mother behind, and will be bonded with his wife, and the two will be in one flesh. ³² This mystery is great, but I speak for Christ and for the church. ³³ Nevertheless ye also, each one in particular, shall so love his own wife as himself, and the wife that she fear her husband.

¹³ But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

¹⁵ For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.