Genesis 44 Cross References - ACV

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. ² And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken. ³ As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. ⁴ And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men, and when thou overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good? ⁵ Is not this that in which my lord drinks, and how he indeed divines? Ye have done evil in so doing. ⁶ And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words. ⁷ And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing. ⁸ Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to thee out of the land of Canaan. How then would we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold? ⁹ With whomever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen. ¹⁰ And he said, Now also let it be according to your words. He with whom it is found shall be my bondman, and ye shall be blameless. ¹¹ Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack. ¹² And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack. ¹³ Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and returned to the city. ¹⁴ And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house. And he was yet there, and they fell before him on the ground. ¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that ye have done? Know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine? ¹⁶ And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak, or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of thy servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found. ¹⁷ And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman, but as for you, get you up in peace to your father. ¹⁸ Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant, for thou are even as Pharaoh. ¹⁹ My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? ²⁰ And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him. ²¹ And thou said to thy servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon him. ²² And we said to my lord, The young man cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die. ²³ And thou said to thy servants, Unless your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more. ²⁴ And it came to pass when we came up to thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. ²⁵ And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food. ²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down, for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother be with us. ²⁷ And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since. ²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life, ³¹ it will come to pass, when he sees that the young man is not with us, that he will die. And thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³² For thy servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever. ³³ Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the young man, and let the young man go up with his brothers. ³⁴ For how shall I go up to my father, if the young man be not with me? Lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

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.

²⁵ Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way. And thus it was done to them.

² And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

¹⁶ And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house, and kill, and make ready, for the men shall dine with me at noon.

¹⁹ And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the door of the house,

¹ For, behold, the Lord, LORD of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread, and the whole support of water,

¹⁵ By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother. And ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

²⁰ and bring your youngest brother to me. So shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

³² And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, who ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

² And thou shall remember all the way which LORD thy God has led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou would keep his commandments, or not.

¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end.

³ thou shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams, for LORD your God proves you, to know whether ye love LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. Become ye therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doves.

⁸ I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

¹⁶ So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

¹⁷ And he said to David, Thou are more righteous than I, for thou have rendered to me good, whereas I have rendered to thee evil.

¹¹ behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou have given us to inherit.

¹² They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

⁵ And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

¹³ He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

³² Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me?

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

¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that ye have done? Know ye not that such a man as I can indeed divine?

²⁶ Ye shall not eat anything with the blood. Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practice augury.

¹⁰ There shall not be found with thee anyone who makes his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, a psychic, he who practices augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer, ¹¹ or a charmer, or a medium, or a spiritist, or a necromancer. ¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to LORD. And because of these abominations LORD thy God drives them out from before thee. ¹³ Thou shall be perfect with LORD thy God. ¹⁴ For these nations, that thou shall dispossess, hearken to those who practice augury, and to psychics. But as for thee, LORD thy God has not allowed thee to do so.

³³ Now the men observed diligently whether anything would come from him. And they quickly caught it, and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

⁶ And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with psychics, and with sorcery. He wrought much evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.

²⁵ And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the city unawares, and killed all the males. ²⁶ And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth. ²⁷ The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. ²⁸ They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field, ²⁹ and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, they took captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house. ³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. And, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house. ³¹ And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

²² And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

¹⁸ And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams. ²¹ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²² And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. ²³ And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him, ²⁴ and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. ²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him. ²⁸ And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt. ²⁹ And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes, ³⁰ and he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not, and I, where shall I go? ³¹ And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. ³² And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not.

¹⁶ And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray thee, let me come in to thee, for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will thou give me, that thou may come in to me? ¹⁷ And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will thou give me a pledge, till thou send it? ¹⁸ And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.

²² The Mighty One, God, LORD, the Mighty One, God, LORD, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in trespass against LORD (do not save us this day), ²³ that we have built us an altar to turn away from following LORD, or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings on it, let LORD himself require it, ²⁴ and if we have not rather out of carefulness done this, from purpose, saying, In time to come your sons might speak to our sons, saying, What have ye to do with LORD, the God of Israel? ²⁵ For LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye sons of Reuben and sons of Gad. Ye have no portion in LORD. So your sons might make our sons cease from fearing LORD. ²⁶ Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, ²⁷ but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, that your sons may not say to our sons in time to come, Ye have no portion in LORD. ²⁸ Therefore we said, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you. ²⁹ Far be it from us that we should rebel against LORD, and turn away this day from following LORD, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

²⁰ And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy.

¹³ And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, LORD has shown me that thou shall be king over Syria.

¹ A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.

¹ A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of death, than the day of birth.

¹⁸ Pray about us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, desiring to behave well in all things.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us.

²⁷ And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey provender in the lodging place, he saw his money, and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

³⁵ And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

¹² And take double money in your hand, and the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks carry again in your hand. Perhaps it was an oversight.

²¹ And it came to pass, when we came to the lodging place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. And we have brought it again in our hand. ²² And we have brought other money down in our hand to buy food. We know not who put our money in our sacks.

⁷ And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.

¹⁵ Thou shall not steal.

¹⁹ Neither shall thou steal.

¹⁸ He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely.

⁹ For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not murder, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not testify falsely, Thou shall not covet, and if there be any other commandment it is summarized in this saying, in, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law, and stumbles on one, he has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For he who said thou shall not commit adultery, also said thou shall not murder. Now if thou will not commit adultery, but murder, thou have become a transgressor of law.

³² With whomever thou find thy gods, he shall not live. Before our brothers discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

¹⁸ And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house, and they said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time, that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our donkeys.

¹⁶ And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak, or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of thy servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.

³⁸ If my land cries out against me, and the furrows of it weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten the fruits of it without money, or have caused the owners of it to lose their lives, ⁴⁰ let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

³ O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands, ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, (yea, I have delivered him without cause who was my adversary), ⁵ let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it. Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

¹¹ For if I am indeed wrong, and have done anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing of what these men accuse me, no man can give me to them freely. I appeal Caesar.

¹⁷ And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman, but as for you, get you up in peace to your father.

³³ Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide a bondman to my lord instead of the young man, and let the young man go up with his brothers.

³ If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. A thief shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

²⁴ And when he began to settle, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him. ²⁵ But of him not having to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all things, as many as he had, and payment to be made.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me. ³⁷ And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Kill my two sons if I do not bring him to thee. Deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again. ³⁸ And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm befalls him by the way in which ye go, then ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

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.

³³ And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth. And the men marveled one with another.

² And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

²⁶ And we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down, for we may not see the man's face unless our youngest brother be with us. ²⁷ And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since. ²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life, ³¹ it will come to pass, when he sees that the young man is not with us, that he will die. And thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol. ³² For thy servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

²⁹ And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes, ³⁰ and he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not, and I, where shall I go? ³¹ And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. ³² And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not. ³³ And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. ³⁴ And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes.

² it came to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes torn, and earth upon his head. And so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the ground, and did obeisance.

¹¹ Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them, and likewise all the men who were with him.

¹⁹ And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her. And she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright. And, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. ⁸ And his brothers said to him, Shall thou indeed reign over us? Or shall thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words. ⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me. ¹⁰ And he told it to his father, and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that thou have dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

²⁵ And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

¹⁸ And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.

¹⁰ so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of the heavenly, and the earthly, and the sub-earthly, ¹¹ and that every tongue should acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

¹³ And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

¹⁰ And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

²⁶ And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing, neither did thou tell me, nor yet did I hear of it, but today.

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.

⁴ And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men, and when thou overtake them, say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good? ⁵ Is not this that in which my lord drinks, and how he indeed divines? Ye have done evil in so doing.

¹ And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make gods for us, which shall go before us. For as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has become of him.

⁷ For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright. And, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

⁹ And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers. And said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream again. And, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.

¹⁸ And they saw him afar off. And before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. ¹⁹ And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes. ²⁰ Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits. And we will say, An evil beast has devoured him. And we shall see what will become of his dreams. ²¹ And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life. ²² And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood. Cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand upon him, that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father. ²³ And it came to pass, when Joseph came to his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him, ²⁴ and they took him, and cast him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was no water in it. ²⁵ And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. ²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him. ²⁸ And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen, and they drew and lifted Joseph up out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

²¹ And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear. Therefore this distress has come upon us. ²² And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Sin not against the child, and ye would not hear? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

⁸ And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the young man with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones. ⁹ I will be surety for him, of my hand shall thou require him. If I do not bring him to thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever.

⁹ With whomever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.

³² For thy servant became surety for the young man to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

²³ But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.

¹ If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and they judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the iniquitous.

¹ But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in what was set apart. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from what was set apart, and the anger of LORD was kindled against the sons of Israel.

¹⁸ And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

⁷ And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

¹⁰ And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken thy commandments,

¹⁵ O LORD, the God of Israel, thou are righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness, for none can stand before thee because of this.

⁴ Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.

¹⁵ He who justifies a wicked man, and he who condemns a righteous man, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.

¹⁷ A man who is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit. Let no man stay him.

³ And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard.

⁹ Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob shall be forgiven. And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten apart, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

⁷ O Lord, righteousness belongs to thee, but to us confusion of face, as at this day, to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where thou have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

² For by what criticism ye criticize, ye will be criticized, and by what measure ye measure, it will be measured to you.

² But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

³⁷ Now having heard this, they were pierced in the heart, and said to Peter and the other apostles, Men, brothers, what will we do?

²⁵ That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay a righteous man with a wicked man, that so the righteous man should be as the wicked man. Far be it from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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.

³² And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, We have found this. Know now whether it is thy son's coat or not. ³³ And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.

¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God:

³ The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me. He who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

² When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly;

³⁰ And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Perhaps there shall be thirty found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

³² And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once. Perhaps ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.

⁴⁰ Thou shall be over my house, and according to thy word all my people shall be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than thou.

⁴⁴ And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee no man shall lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

²² And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord grow hot. Thou know the people, that they are set on evil.

¹² Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

¹² But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains. Therefore the king was very angry, and his fury burned in him.

³¹ Mark well, O Job, hearken to me. Keep silent, and I will speak.

⁵ How long, O LORD? Will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

¹² The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

¹⁵ Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, well. But if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is that god who shall deliver you out of my hands?

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to be heated. ²⁰ And he commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. ²¹ Then these men were bound in their coats, their tunics, and their head coverings, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. ²² Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace very hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³ And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

¹⁹ And because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he wanted, he killed, and whom he wanted, he kept alive, and whom he wanted, he raised up, and whom he wanted, he put down.

²² For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

²⁹ Men, brothers, being permitted to speak to you with openness about the patriarch David, that he both perished and was buried, and his sepulcher is with us to this day.

⁷ And Joseph saw his brothers, and he knew them, but made himself foreign to them, and spoke roughly with them. And he said to them. From where come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food. ⁸ And Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him. ⁹ And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them. And said to them, Ye are spies; ye have come to see the nakedness of the land. ¹⁰ And they said to him, No, my lord, but thy servants have come to buy food.

⁷ And they said, The man asked diligently concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we in any way know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

²⁹ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to thee, my son.

¹⁸ And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made for him a coat of many colors.

¹⁹ And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes.

³³ And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. ³⁴ And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. 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.

¹³ And they said, We thy servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. And, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.

³⁸ And he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm befalls him by the way in which ye go, then ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

⁷ And they said, The man asked diligently concerning ourselves, and concerning our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? Have ye another brother? And we told him according to the tenor of these words. Could we in any way know that he would say, Bring your brother down? ⁸ And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the young man with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

²⁷ And thy servant my father said to us, Ye know that my wife bore me two sons. ²⁸ And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I have not seen him since. ²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol. ³⁰ Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life,

²¹ And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

⁸ Judah, thy brothers shall praise thee. Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's sons shall bow down before thee.

¹² Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, an only begotten son who died was being carried out for his mother. And she was a widow, and a considerable crowd of the city was with her.

¹⁵ By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here.

⁶ For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them, and not pull them down, and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

⁴ And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which are upon thy hand. If it seem good to thee to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to thee, but if it seems ill to thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear. Behold, all the land is before thee, where it seems good and right to thee to go, there go.

⁴ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them. And I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

³⁰ Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man's life,

¹⁵ By this ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here unless your youngest brother comes here. ¹⁶ Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother. And ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. ¹⁷ And he put them all together into ward three days. ¹⁸ And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live, for I fear God: ¹⁹ If ye be true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison house, but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses, ²⁰ and bring your youngest brother to me. So shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

³ And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man solemnly protested to us, saying, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother be with you.

⁵ but if thou will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother be with you.

²⁹ And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying, ³⁰ The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country. ³¹ And we said to him, We are true men, and we are no spies. ³² We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan. ³³ And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, By this I shall know that ye are true men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way, ³⁴ and bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and ye shall trade in the land.

⁴ If thou will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for thee, ⁵ but if thou will not send him, we will not go down. For the man said to us, Ye shall not see my face unless your brother be with you.

⁷ and that man from inside, having answered, would say, Do not cause toils for me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I am not able, after getting up, to give thee?

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. ¹⁹ And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man. Abide with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her. ²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.

²⁸ And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

²² And God remembered Rachel. And God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. ²³ And she conceived, and bore a son, and said, God has taken away my reproach. ²⁴ And she called his name Joseph, saying, LORD adds another son to me. ²⁵ And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

¹⁶ And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor. ¹⁷ And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not, for now thou shall have another son. ¹⁸ And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

¹³ And Israel said to Joseph, Are not thy brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send thee to them. And he said to him, Here I am. ¹⁴ And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brothers, and well with the flock, and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

³³ And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.

³¹ it will come to pass, when he sees that the young man is not with us, that he will die. And thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

¹⁷ Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come upon them, so that they will say in that day, Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?

³ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. ⁴ I am reckoned with those who go down into the pit. I am as a man who has no help,

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

¹ And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

²⁹ And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with LORD thy God. And the souls of thine enemies, them he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

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

²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers hearkened to him.

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.

²⁹ And if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

¹⁷ And he who brought the news answered and said, Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. And thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. ¹⁸ And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

²² And David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.

¹⁰ For sorrow toward God works repentance for salvation without regret, but the sorrow of the world works death.

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.

³² Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin-, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.

⁷ For scarcely for a righteous man will some man die, indeed perhaps for the good man some man would even dare to die. ⁸ But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹ Much more then, now having been made righteous by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath through him. ¹⁰ For if, while being enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more having been reconciled we will be saved by his life.

³ For I wished I myself to be accursed from the Christ, for my brothers, my kinsmen according to flesh,

²² By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

⁸ And Moses told his father-in-law all that LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how LORD delivered them.

³³ And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thy heart. And all the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. ³⁴ And this shall be the sign to thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: In one day they shall die, both of them.

²⁸ Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shall be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of it. And they brought back word to the king.

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

²⁹ if I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him

³ The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me. Thy commandments are my delight.

¹⁰ And the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the rulers of Judah in Riblah. ¹¹ And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah. And the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.