Exodus 22 Cross References - BBE

¹ If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made. ² If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood. ³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible. ⁴ If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value. ⁵ If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it. ⁶ If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage. ⁷ If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value. ⁸ If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods. ⁹ In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value. ¹⁰ If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it: ¹¹ If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it. ¹² But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner. ¹³ But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged. ¹⁴ If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss. ¹⁵ If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment. ¹⁶ If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife. ¹⁷ If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins. ¹⁸ Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death. ¹⁹ Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death. ²⁰ Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord. 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. ²⁵ If you let any of the poor among my people have the use of your money, do not be a hard creditor to him, and do not take interest. ²⁶ If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down: ²⁷ For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great. ²⁸ You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people. ²⁹ Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me. ³⁰ In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me. ³¹ You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, ² If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour, ³ Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things, ⁴ Causing sin to come on him, then he will have to give back the thing he took by force or got by cruel acts, or the goods which were put in his care or the thing he came on by chance, ⁵ Or anything about which he took a false oath; he will have to give it all back, with the addition of a fifth of its value, to him whose property it is, when he has been judged to be in the wrong. ⁶ Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing; giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you:

⁷ Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

⁶ And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.

³¹ But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

⁴ Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.

⁸ And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

²⁷ And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

⁵ They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

¹ When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

⁹ They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.

¹⁹ Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away. ²⁰ But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:

⁴³ But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

² For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

² If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

¹⁴ And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.

¹ This is the word of the Lord: Where is the statement which I gave your mother when I put her away? or to which of my creditors have I given you for money? It was for your sins that you were given into the hands of others, and for your evil-doing was your mother put away.

²⁵ And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

¹⁶ Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.

¹ If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

⁷ If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value.

⁹ In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

² Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

¹⁸ And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

⁶ Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.

³⁴ The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

³ But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.

¹² But if it is taken from him by a thief, he is to make up for the loss of it to its owner.

¹⁸ He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

³³ If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death; ³⁴ The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

⁴ So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails; ⁵ Then firing the sticks, he let the foxes loose among the uncut grain of the Philistines, and all the corded stems as well as the living grain and the vine-gardens and the olives went up in flames.

³⁰ So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire. ³¹ Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?

⁴ If he still has what he had taken, whatever it is, ox or ass or sheep, he is to give twice its value.

³⁰ Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it: ³¹ But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

²⁶ As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;

⁶ He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.

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.

⁶ Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.

²⁸ You may not say evil of the judges, or put a curse on the ruler of your people.

¹⁸ You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.

⁸ If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God; ⁹ And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

¹⁷ Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power; ¹⁸ And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,

⁴ Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;

¹ A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods.

²¹ But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; ²² And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.

⁷ If a man puts money or goods in the care of his neighbour to keep for him, and it is taken from the man's house, if they get the thief, he will have to make payment of twice the value. ⁸ If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

⁶ Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause. 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.

⁶ Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong; ⁷ Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

¹⁸ You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness. 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.

¹ If there is an argument between men and they go to law with one another, let the judges give their decision for the upright, and against the wrongdoer.

³¹ If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

¹⁰ And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.

¹⁴ For if you let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will have forgiveness from your Father in heaven. ¹⁵ But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.

¹⁵ And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

³⁵ So will my Father in heaven do to you, if you do not everyone, from your hearts, give forgiveness to his brother.

³ Give attention to yourselves: if your brother does wrong, say a sharp word to him; and if he has sorrow for his sin, let him have forgiveness. ⁴ And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.

⁸ But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;

⁴⁸ But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

¹¹ If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

¹² And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.

⁸ If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

¹ Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.

¹ And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:

³ Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,

⁴² Then the king sent for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not make you take an oath by the Lord, protesting to you and saying, Be certain that on the day when you go out from here, wherever you go, death will overtake you? and you said to me, Very well! ⁴³ Why then have you not kept the oath of the Lord and the order which I gave you?

⁹ For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.

¹⁶ For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.

³⁹ Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.

¹⁴ Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.

¹² These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.

⁸ And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

¹² Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.

¹¹ If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.

¹⁸ And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.

² This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

¹⁹ Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have: ²⁰ From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

⁴ And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.

²¹ The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

⁴² Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.

³⁵ But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.

¹⁰ For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

² And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her. ³ Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her. ⁴ And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.

²⁸ If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it; ²⁹ Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

¹⁶ And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.

¹² However great you make the bride-price and payment, I will give it; only let me have the girl for my wife.

³ Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons. ⁴ For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

²⁹ Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

²⁵ And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines.

²⁶ Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.

³¹ Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

⁶ And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.

²⁷ Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.

¹⁰ Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker, ¹¹ Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

³ Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.

⁹ And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?

³ And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.

⁹ But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man: ¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great. ¹¹ And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

¹⁶ And when we were going to the place of prayer, we came across a girl with a spirit which gave knowledge of the future, whose masters made great profit from her power. ¹⁷ She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation. ¹⁸ And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour. ¹⁹ But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

¹⁹ And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

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.

²⁵ And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

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. ¹⁶ And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.

²¹ Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

³ And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

² For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods. ³ So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel. ⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

⁷ And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand, ⁸ And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.

¹ If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder, ² And the sign or the wonder takes place, and he says to you, Let us go after other gods, which are strange to you, and give them worship; ³ Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him. ⁴ But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him. ⁵ And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you. ⁶ If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers; ⁷ Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover; ⁹ But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ Let him be stoned with stones till he is dead; because it was his purpose to make you false to the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. ¹¹ And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you. ¹² And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place, ¹³ That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge; ¹⁴ Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you; ¹⁵ Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

² If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement, ³ By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders; ⁴ If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel; ⁵ Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

²⁰ But the prophet who takes it on himself to say words in my name which I have not given him orders to say, or who says anything in the name of other gods, will come to his death.

¹⁵ And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you. ¹⁶ If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.

² I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

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.

³³ And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;

³⁵ And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

¹⁹ So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.

¹⁵ And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

⁷ But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

⁶ If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:

³ This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.

¹⁰ Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.

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.

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.

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:

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.

⁶ They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father; ⁷ And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

¹⁷ Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

²³ Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

² Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

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.

²⁷ The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

⁹ And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.

¹⁵ Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

³⁸ If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow; ³⁹ If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

²⁸ So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.

⁹ Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

¹⁷ Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: ¹⁸ To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

⁶ In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.

¹² I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

¹⁹ To his worshippers, he will give their desire; their cry comes to his ears, and he gives them salvation.

⁷ Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free; ⁸ The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright; ⁹ The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.

²² Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge: ²³ For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

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.

⁷ And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

⁴ See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.

¹³ This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. ¹⁴ If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread. ¹⁵ When those of his house who are still living come to their end by disease, they are not put into the earth, and their widows are not weeping for them.

²³ For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

²⁴ Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

⁷ You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

⁶³ Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song. ⁶⁴ Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

¹¹ Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

⁹ Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

⁸ I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.

²¹ For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

³ We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

⁶ Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.

³⁸ Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.

⁵ But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness; ⁶ Who will give to every man his right reward: ⁷ To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: ⁸ But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, ⁹ Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

³¹ We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.

³⁵ And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. ³⁶ Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. ³⁷ Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

¹ Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.

⁷ So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.

² For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs. ³ And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need. ⁴ And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes. ⁵ But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

⁷ And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.

¹⁰ Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing. ¹¹ Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

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.

⁸ He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

¹⁰ Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

⁸ And has not given his money out at interest or taken great profits, and, turning his hand from evil-doing, has kept faith between man and man,

¹³ And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.

¹⁷ Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.

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.

²⁷ Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?

²³ Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?

⁶ No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

¹⁰ If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt; ¹¹ But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to you. ¹² If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night; ¹³ But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.

⁶ For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

³ They send away the ass of him who has no father, they take the widow's ox for debt.

⁹ The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

¹⁶ Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

²⁷ If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.

⁷ And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

¹⁶ Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;

¹⁵ If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.

⁸ By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.

²³ Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God. ²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

²³ If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

⁶ And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

⁹ For if you come back to the Lord, those who took away your brothers and your children will have pity on them, and let them come back to this land: for the Lord your God is full of grace and mercy, and his face will not be turned away from you if you come back to him.

⁶ This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

¹² For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

¹⁵ But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

¹⁰ To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: ¹¹ And took out Israel from among them: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

²⁰ And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.

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

⁸ If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods. ⁹ In any question about an ox or an ass or a sheep or clothing, or about the loss of any property which anyone says is his, let the two sides put their cause before God; and he who is judged to be in the wrong is to make payment to his neighbour of twice the value.

¹⁶ And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.

⁶ And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.

¹⁰ Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.

⁹ And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?

⁶ For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

¹ A Psalm. Of Asaph. God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods. 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. ⁵ They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved. ⁶ I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High: ⁷ But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

¹ Of David. I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.

²⁰ Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.

³⁴ In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods? ³⁵ If he said they were gods, to whom the word of God came and the Writings may not be broken,

³ Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?

⁵ And Paul said, Brother, I had no idea that he was the high priest: for it has been said, You may not say evil about the ruler of your people.

² For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves. ³ For rulers are not a cause of fear to the good work but to the evil. If you would have no fear of the authority, do good and you will have praise; ⁴ For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer. ⁵ So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right. ⁶ For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times. ⁷ Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.

¹ Make clear to them that they are to put themselves under rulers and authorities, to do what they are ordered, to be ready for every good work, ² To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

¹⁷ Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

¹⁰ But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:

⁸ In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.

² Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.

¹² You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.

¹⁶ And the feast of the grain-cutting, the first-fruits of your planted fields: and the feast at the start of the year, when you have got in all the fruit from your fields.

¹⁹ The best of the first-fruits of your land are to be taken into the house of the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

¹⁹ Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.

² You are to take a part of the first-fruits of the earth, which you get from the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket, and go to the place marked out by the Lord your God, as the resting-place of his name. ³ And you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us. ⁴ Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God. ⁵ And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation: ⁶ And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke: ⁷ And our cry went up to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord's ear was open to the voice of our cry, and his eyes took note of our grief and the crushing weight of our work: ⁸ And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders: 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:

⁴² Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

⁵ And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase: ¹⁰ So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

⁴⁰ For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things.

¹ Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

²³ And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

³ And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

²⁷ When an ox or a sheep or a goat is given birth, let it be with its mother for seven days; and after the eighth day it may be taken as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

¹⁹ All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.

⁵ If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

⁴⁴ For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth. ⁴⁵ For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.

¹⁵ And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean. ¹⁶ But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

² Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

²⁵ So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.

⁸ That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.

²¹ You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

³¹ The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

¹⁴ But Peter said, No, Lord; for I have never taken food which is common or unclean.

²⁰ But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

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.