Deuteronomy 27 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then Moses and the responsible men of Israel gave the people these orders: Keep all the orders which I have given you this day; ² And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste, ³ And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said. ⁴ And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with building-paste. ⁵ There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used. ⁶ You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God: ⁷ And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God. ⁸ And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly. ⁹ Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, said to all Israel, Be quiet and give ear, O Israel; today you have become the people of the Lord your God. ¹⁰ For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day. ¹¹ That same day Moses said to the people, ¹² These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin; ¹³ And these are to be on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. ¹⁴ Then the Levites are to say in a loud voice to all the men of Israel, ¹⁵ Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁷ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁸ Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it. ¹⁹ Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁰ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it. ²¹ Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it. ²² Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it. ²³ Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁴ Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁵ Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it. ²⁶ Cursed is he who does not take this law to heart to do it. And let all the people say, So be it.

²⁵ Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

³² And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me. ³³ Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon. ³⁴ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi. ³⁵ And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan. ⁷ And again Bilhah, Rachel's servant, was with child, and gave birth to a second son. ⁸ And Rachel said, I have had a great fight with my sister, and I have overcome her: and she gave the child the name Naphtali. ⁹ When it was clear to Leah that she would have no more children for a time, she gave Zilpah, her servant, to Jacob as a wife. ¹⁰ And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son. ¹¹ And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad. ¹² And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son. ¹³ And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.

¹⁸ Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.

²⁰ And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.

²⁴ And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

¹⁹ Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

³⁴ Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

¹⁸ And in the hour when her life went from her for death came to her, she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.

²² Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power: ⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

⁴ You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

¹² Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ¹³ Do not put anyone to death without cause.

²³ Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

²⁵ And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

¹² He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death. ¹³ But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight. ¹⁴ But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

¹⁷ Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.

¹⁹ Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

²¹ Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt. ²² Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead. ²³ If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear; ²⁴ And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

² Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

⁷ Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin. ⁸ Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false.

⁸ Take no rewards in a cause: for rewards make blind those who have eyes to see, and make the decisions of the upright false. ⁹ Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

⁴ Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹ And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him. ² Then Aaron said to them, Take off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives and your sons and your daughters, and give them to me. ³ And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron. ⁴ And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁷ Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

¹ And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying, ² Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock. ³ If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord. ⁴ And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin. ⁵ And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting. ⁶ And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts. ⁷ And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put fire on the altar and put the wood in order on the fire: ⁸ And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put the parts, the head and the fat, in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar: ⁹ But its inside parts and its legs are to be washed with water, and it will all be burned on the altar by the priest for a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord. ¹⁰ And if his offering is of the flock, a burned offering of sheep or goats, let him give a male without a mark. ¹¹ And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar. ¹² And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar: ¹³ But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord. ¹⁴ And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons. ¹⁵ And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar: ¹⁶ And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put: ¹⁷ And let it be broken open at the wings, but not cut in two; and let it be burned on the altar by the priest on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burned offering; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

¹ And if his offering is given for a peace-offering; if he gives of the herd, male or female, let him give it without any mark on it, before the Lord. ² And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar. ³ And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, ⁴ And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away; ⁵ That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord. ⁶ And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it. ⁷ If his offering is a lamb, then let it be placed before the Lord: ⁸ And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons are to put some of its blood on and round the altar. ⁹ And of the peace-offering, let him give an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat of it, all the fat tail, he is to take away near the backbone; and the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, ¹⁰ And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away; ¹¹ That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord. ¹² And if his offering is a goat, then let it be placed before the Lord, ¹³ And let him put his hand on the head of it and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron are to put some of its blood on and round the altar. ¹⁴ And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts, ¹⁵ And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away; ¹⁶ That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's. ¹⁷ Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

¹¹ And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord. ¹² If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil. ¹³ With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering. ¹⁴ And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar. ¹⁵ And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning. ¹⁶ But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after: ¹⁷ But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire.

⁸ And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's. ⁹ You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.

¹⁷ You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

²³ And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

² Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. ³ Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. ⁴ Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁴ Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.

⁹ Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.

¹¹ And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

¹⁴ And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you. ¹⁵ And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

¹⁷ And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

²⁴ But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.

¹⁷ And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

¹ Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

²² And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

²⁷ And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.

⁸ And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

³¹ Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

¹ And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. ² Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on all those among you who went after Baal-peor.

¹⁶ So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female, ¹⁷ Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air, ¹⁸ Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth. ¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven. ²⁰ But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his heritage, as you are today. ²¹ And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage: ²² But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take that good land for your heritage. ²³ Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

⁸ You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

¹ Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

¹ Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

¹² And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul, ¹³ Doing the orders of the Lord and keeping his laws which I give you this day for your good?

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards: ¹⁸ Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

¹ So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

⁷ But your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord which he has done. ⁸ So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;

²⁶ Today I put before you a blessing and a curse: ²⁷ The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day: ²⁸ And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours. ²⁹ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

²⁹ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

²⁹ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. ³⁰ Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh? ³¹ For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place. ³² And you are to take care to keep all the laws and the decisions which I put before you today.

⁷ There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

¹² And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.

¹¹ Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.

¹⁴ You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

¹⁹ You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.

¹¹ But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns; ¹² The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

¹⁴ Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹⁸ If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: ¹⁹ Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; ²⁰ And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. ²¹ Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

³⁰ A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

¹⁷ Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:

¹ Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;

⁹ And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁰ So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship: ¹¹ And you will have joy in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and to your family; and the Levite, and the man from a strange land who is with you, will take part in your joy.

¹⁶ Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.

¹⁶ Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul. ¹⁷ Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice: ¹⁸ And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

³ And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said. ⁴ And when you have gone over Jordan, you are to put up these stones, as I have said to you today, in Mount Ebal, and have them coated with building-paste.

¹⁵ Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁵ But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you: ¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.

¹⁶ You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field. ¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

¹⁷ A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. ¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

¹⁸ A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock. ¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

¹⁹ You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out. ²⁰ The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you; because of your evil ways in which you have been false to me. ²¹ The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going. ²² The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete. ²³ And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron. ²⁴ The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust, sending it down on you from heaven till your destruction is complete. ²⁵ The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth. ²⁶ Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away. ²⁷ The Lord will send on you the disease of Egypt, and other sorts of skin diseases which nothing will make well. ²⁸ He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear: ²⁹ You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour. ³⁰ You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it. ³¹ Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you. ³² Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything. ³³ The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever: ³⁴ So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds. ³⁵ The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well. ³⁶ And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone. ³⁷ And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you. ³⁸ You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it. ³⁹ You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms. ⁴⁰ Your land will be full of olive-trees, but there will be no oil for the comfort of your body; for your olive-tree will give no fruit. ⁴¹ You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land. ⁴² All your trees and the fruit of your land will be the locust's. ⁴³ The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower. ⁴⁴ He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail. ⁴⁵ And all these curses will come after you and overtake you, till your destruction is complete; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, or keep his laws and his orders which he gave you: ⁴⁶ These things will come on you and on your seed, to be a sign and a wonder for ever; ⁴⁷ Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things; ⁴⁸ For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you. ⁴⁹ The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you; ⁵⁰ A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young: ⁵¹ He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete. ⁵² Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you. ⁵³ And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters. ⁵⁴ That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living; ⁵⁵ And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁶ The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter; ⁵⁷ And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns. ⁵⁸ If you will not take care to do all the words of this law, recorded in this book, honouring that name of glory and of fear, THE LORD YOUR GOD; ⁵⁹ Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years. ⁶⁰ He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip. ⁶¹ And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete. ⁶² And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God. ⁶³ And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge. ⁶⁵ And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul: ⁶⁶ Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain: ⁶⁷ In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see. ⁶⁸ And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.

¹⁷ And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:}

⁹ Who said of his father, Who is he? and of his mother, I have not seen her; he kept himself separate from his brothers and had no knowledge of his children: for they have given ear to your word and kept your agreement. ¹⁰ They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.

¹¹ Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

¹ Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

⁵ And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel: ⁶ So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? ⁷ Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever. ⁸ So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there. ⁹ And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day. ¹⁰ For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly. ¹¹ And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people. ¹² And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them: ¹³ About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho. ¹⁴ That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses. ¹⁵ Then the Lord said to Joshua, ¹⁶ Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan. ¹⁷ So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan. ¹⁸ And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before. ¹⁹ So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho. ²⁰ And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal. ²¹ And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones? ²² Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land. ²³ For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across: ²⁴ So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.

⁶ For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

³⁰ Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

³⁰ Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, ³¹ In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

³¹ In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

³¹ In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord. ³² And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.

³² And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel. ³³ And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

³³ And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

³³ And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given. ³⁴ And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law; ³⁵ Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.

⁷ Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.

¹⁹ Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

²⁷ And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.

¹⁵ And in the letter he said, Take care to put Uriah in the very front of the line, where the fighting is most violent, and go back from him, so that he may be overcome and put to death. ¹⁶ So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were. ¹⁷ And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.

⁹ Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon. ¹⁰ So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife. ¹¹ The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun. ¹² You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.

¹ Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.

⁸ So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire. ⁹ And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out. ¹⁰ Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom. ¹¹ And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister. ¹² And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing. ¹³ What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you. ¹⁴ But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.

²⁸ Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.

²² So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

⁹ And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss. ¹⁰ But Amasa did not see danger from the sword which was now in Joab's left hand, and Joab put it through his stomach so that his inside came out on to the earth, and he did not give him another blow. So Joab and his brother Abishai went on after Sheba, the son of Bichri.

⁵ For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. ⁶ And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did. ⁷ Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

³¹ And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name: ³² And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.

¹⁹ {\I But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

¹³ And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

¹ And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, {\I for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

²³ And by the desire of all the people, the feast went on for another seven days, and they kept the seven days with joy. ²⁴ For Hezekiah, king of Judah, gave to the people for offerings, a thousand oxen and seven thousand sheep; and the rulers gave a thousand oxen and ten thousand sheep; and a great number of priests made themselves holy. ²⁵ And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy. ²⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. ²⁷ Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.

² He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

⁷ And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places. ⁸ And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.

¹⁰ Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

⁵ He who does not put out his money at interest, or for payment give false decisions against men who have done no wrong. He who does these things will never be moved.

²⁰ If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, ²¹ Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

² How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? Selah. ³ Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights. ⁴ Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

¹ A Psalm of Praise. Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth. ² Give worship to the Lord with joy; come before him with a song.

²¹ Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause; ¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death; ¹³ Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth; ¹⁴ Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag: ¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways: ¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life. ¹⁷ Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: ¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves. ¹⁹ Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners. ²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; ²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: ²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? ²³ Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. ²⁴ Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; ²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: ²⁶ So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; ²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. ²⁸ Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: ²⁹ For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

²³ A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.

²⁸ Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.

¹⁰ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father; ¹¹ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

¹⁰ Anyone causing the upright to go wandering in an evil way, will himself go down into the hole he has made; but the upright will have good things for their heritage.

¹¹ There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother. ¹² There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. ¹³ There is a generation, O how full of pride are their eyes! O how their brows are lifted up! ¹⁴ There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men. ¹⁵ The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough: ¹⁶ The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough. ¹⁷ The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

⁵ For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

³ So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

⁹ Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame. ¹⁰ Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

¹⁷ And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

¹⁹ And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

³ To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.

¹⁰ I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

³ The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

³ The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement, ⁴ To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God: ⁵ So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

⁵ So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.

²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

⁶ The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.

³¹ See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah: ³² Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord. ³³ But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

²² And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

²⁰ As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.

⁷ And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall. ⁸ And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door. ⁹ And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here. ¹⁰ So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall. ¹¹ And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume. ¹² And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

¹⁹ And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:

⁴ For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

²⁴ But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.

⁷ In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

¹⁰ In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean. ¹¹ And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter. ¹² In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord. ¹³ See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

²⁶ And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh.

¹¹ And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

³¹ And armies sent by him will take up their position and they will make unclean the holy place, even the strong place, and take away the regular burned offering and put in its place an unclean thing causing fear.

² And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen. ³ So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

⁷ Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:

⁹ Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight. ¹⁰ They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing. ¹¹ Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

⁵ For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.

⁸ He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.

² The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net. ³ Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

² And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.

¹⁸ Still, I will be glad in the Lord, my joy will be in the God of my salvation.

⁷ For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies. ⁸ But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies. ⁹ And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

⁵ And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

⁴⁸ Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

⁴ For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. ⁵ But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; ⁶ There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

¹⁴ Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

¹⁵ When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet let this be clear to the reader,

⁴¹ Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

¹⁵ What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

³ Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, ⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

²⁵ All this I have said to you in veiled language: but the time is coming when I will no longer say things in veiled language but will give you knowledge of the Father clearly.

¹⁸ {\I Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

³⁶ The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ who is Lord of all--

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: ²⁰ Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁰ For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

¹⁷ But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed; ¹⁸ And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

²² But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

⁵ For Moses says that the man who does the righteousness which is of the law will get life by it.

¹ It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

¹⁶ For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?

²² If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha our Lord comes.

² You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge; ³ For you are clearly a letter of Christ, the fruit of our work, recorded not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in stone, but in hearts of flesh.

¹² Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

¹⁰ For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.

¹⁶ And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division. ¹⁷ And he came preaching peace to you who were far off, and to those who were near;

¹⁷ This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit, ¹⁸ Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard; ¹⁹ Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire. ²⁰ For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you; ²¹ If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus: ²² That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit; ²³ And be made new in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light ⁹ Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true,

³ For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

⁴ Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

²⁰ Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.

¹ And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more. ² Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁶ But now his position as priest is higher. because through him God has made a better agreement with man, based on the giving of better things. ⁷ For if that first agreement had been as good as possible, there would have been no place for a second. ⁸ For, protesting against them, he says, See, the days are coming when I will make a new agreement with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; ⁹ Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord. ¹⁰ For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

¹⁶ This is the agreement which I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws in their hearts, writing them in their minds; he said,

²⁰ Now may the God of peace, who made that great keeper of his flock, even our Lord Jesus, come back from the dead through the blood of the eternal agreement, ²¹ Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

¹⁰ For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

¹⁴ Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge: ¹⁵ But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; ¹⁶ Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you. ¹¹ My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; ² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. ³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

¹⁴ But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires; ⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.