Genesis 12 Cross References - BBE

¹ Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: ² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: ³ To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth. ⁴ So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran. ⁵ And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. ⁶ And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land. ⁷ And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him. ⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord. ⁹ And he went on, journeying still to the South. ¹⁰ And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt. ¹¹ Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye; ¹² And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you. ¹³ Say, then, that you are my sister, and so it will be well with me because of you, and my life will be kept safe on your account. ¹⁴ And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair. ¹⁵ And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house. ¹⁶ And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels. ¹⁷ And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife. ¹⁸ Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way. ²⁰ And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time. ³² And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.

⁷ And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.

² And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods. ³ And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.

⁷ You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

¹⁰ O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house; ¹¹ So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

⁹ You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and sent for from its farthest parts, saying to you, You are my servant, whom I have taken for myself, and whom I have not given up:

² Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

²⁴ Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.

²⁶ And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. ²⁷ Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple. ²⁸ For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? ²⁹ For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, ³⁰ And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete. ³¹ Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace. ³³ And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.

² And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran, ³ And said to him, Go out of your land, and away from your family, and come into the land to which I will be your guide. ⁴ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now: ⁵ And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time. ⁶ And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

¹⁷ For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going.

⁴ And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

¹⁴ And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan. ¹⁵ And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus. ¹⁶ And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.

⁵ And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

⁴ As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end. ⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. ⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁸ Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

²⁹ So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

¹⁷ That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them; ¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

³⁵ The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

²⁹ Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.

³ And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. ⁴ And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

¹⁰ Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.

¹² I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.

⁹ He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed. ¹⁰ Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.

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:

⁹ And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.

⁴⁷ And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.

⁸ And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given. ⁹ Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

²⁰ You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

¹¹ And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

⁷ Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

¹⁴ So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.

¹⁸ And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

³⁰ For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

²² But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.

⁹ He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

¹⁷ May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

⁴⁰ And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.

⁴⁵ Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.

²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth. ²⁶ To you, first, God sent his servant, blessing you by turning every one of you from his sins.

³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

⁸ And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

¹⁶ Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

¹¹ Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

⁹ After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

³¹ And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

¹⁴ And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.

²¹ And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.

⁵ Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. ⁶ And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: ⁷ His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt. ⁸ And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son; ⁹ And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi; ¹⁰ And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan; ¹¹ And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; ¹² And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. ¹³ And the sons of Issachar: Tola and Puah and Job and Shimron; ¹⁴ And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel; ¹⁵ All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number. ¹⁶ And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli; ¹⁷ And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel. ¹⁸ These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her. ¹⁹ The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. ²⁰ And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On. ²¹ And the sons of Benjamin were Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard. ²² All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons. ²³ And the son of Dan was Hushim. ²⁴ And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem. ²⁵ These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons. ²⁶ All the persons who came with Jacob into Egypt, the offspring of his body, were sixty-six, without taking into account the wives of Jacob's sons.

⁴ Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:

⁸ By faith Abraham did as God said when he was ordered to go out into a place which was to be given to him as a heritage, and went out without knowledge of where he was going. ⁹ By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

¹⁵ And Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,

¹⁸ And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions; ¹⁹ Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

⁷ And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: ¹⁹ The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, ²⁰ And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, ²¹ And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

¹⁸ So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

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.

⁴ Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

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?

⁷ So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba which is Hebron in the hill-country of Judah.

³² And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

¹ Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.

¹ Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,

¹ And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

¹⁶ And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

⁹ By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:

²⁰ And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.

⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

⁴ To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

¹⁸ And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

¹ When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

³ And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

⁸ And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

¹ Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

⁹ And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

²⁵ Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

¹³ And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.

³⁰ And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.

²⁰ And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

³ I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Go forward from this place, you and the people whom you have taken up out of the land of Egypt, to that land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it.

¹¹ Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

⁸ See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.

¹⁰ And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

²⁰ In loving the Lord your God, hearing his voice and being true to him: for he is your life and by him will your days be long: so that you may go on living in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

⁹ The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; ¹⁰ And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement; ¹¹ Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage: ¹² When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

²⁶ And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.

³³ And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

³ And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

¹⁵ And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el. ¹⁶ So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

² Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

³ So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.

¹⁷ There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.

²² And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el

³¹ And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

⁴ Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble.

²⁸ He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.

³² And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

²¹ And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.

¹² And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name: ¹³ Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation. ¹⁴ But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?

² To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

¹ And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

³ And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

⁶² Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

¹³ When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people.

¹³ All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it clear that they are searching for a country for themselves.

¹ Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar. ² And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge: ³ Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

⁵ And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

¹ Now the land was in bitter need of food.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: ⁴ I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.

¹³ Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

¹ Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

¹ In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word. ² Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ³ Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan. ⁴ The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there. ⁵ So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan. ⁶ And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink. ⁷ Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land. ⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ⁹ Up! go now to Zarephath, in Zidon, and make your living-place there; I have given orders to a widow woman there to see that you have food. ¹⁰ So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink? ¹¹ And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread. ¹² Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death. ¹³ And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. ¹⁴ For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth. ¹⁵ So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time. ¹⁶ The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. ¹⁷ Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him. ¹⁸ And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?

³⁸ And Elisha went back to Gilgal, now there was very little food in the land; and the sons of the prophets were seated before him. And he said to his servant, Put the great pot on the fire, and make soup for the sons of the prophets.

²⁵ And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

¹ Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria. ² Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food. ³ Now there were four lepers seated at the doorway into the town: and they said to one another, Why are we waiting here for death? ⁴ If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours. ⁵ So in the half light they got up to go to the tents of Aram; but when they came to the outer line of tents, there was no one there. ⁶ For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us. ⁷ So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives. ⁸ And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

¹ Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years. ² So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

³⁴ He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

¹ The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

³³ I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.

¹¹ Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

¹⁴ And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

⁷ And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.

¹⁷ And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

⁶ And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face. ⁷ And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

² Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

³⁰ Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.

¹⁴ My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

¹¹ And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

¹ And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.

²⁵ The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

²⁸ And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us. ⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil. ¹⁰ If we say that we have no sin, we make him false and his word is not in us.

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

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

⁵ Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

¹² And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: ¹³ And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

³ Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation. ⁴ Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end. ⁵ Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

¹¹ And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?

⁵ This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord. ⁶ For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land. ⁷ A blessing is on the man who puts his faith in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. ⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

⁴ See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

⁶⁹ Now Peter was seated in the open square outside the house: and a servant-girl came to him, saying, You were with Jesus the Galilaean. ⁷⁰ But he said before them all that it was false, saying, I have no knowledge of what you say. ⁷¹ And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene. ⁷² And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man. ⁷³ And after a little time those who were near came and said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; because your talk is witness against you. ⁷⁴ Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock. ⁷⁵ And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.

⁴⁴ You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

⁶ In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world? ⁷ But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner? ⁸ Let us not do evil so that good may come a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made, because such behaviour will have its right punishment.

²³ For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹² For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.

⁶ Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;

⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.

² The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

⁷ And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

²⁸ But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

² And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

¹ Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;

⁵ Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

¹ Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.

²¹ See, now, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go through a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.

² Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king: ³ Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them; ⁴ And let the girl who is pleasing to the king be queen in place of Vashti. And the king was pleased with this suggestion; and he did so. ⁵ Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite; ⁶ Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away. ⁷ And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter. ⁸ So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women. ⁹ And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house. ¹⁰ Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so. ¹¹ And every day Mordecai took his walk before the square of the women's house, to see how Esther was and what would be done to her. ¹² Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean: ¹³ And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king. ¹⁴ In the evening she went, and on the day after she came back to the second house of the women, into the keeping of Shaashgaz, one of the king's unsexed servants who had the care of the king's wives: only if the king had delight in her and sent for her by name did she go in to him again. ¹⁵ Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her. ¹⁶ So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

⁴ Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.

²⁹ So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

¹² If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

¹⁹ Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

¹⁷ Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.

² Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.

⁴ They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened. ⁵ On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.

⁴ Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

² Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

¹⁴ Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

¹⁴ For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

⁵ And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.

¹³ Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau, ¹⁴ Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep, ¹⁵ Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

³ And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

¹² And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

¹³ Our store-houses are full of all good things; and our sheep give birth to thousands and ten thousands in our fields. ¹⁴ Our oxen are well weighted down; our cows give birth safely; there is no going out, and there is no cry of sorrow in our open places.

¹⁸ For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

²¹ He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

²² Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.

¹⁹ Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

¹⁴ He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them, ¹⁵ Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.

¹⁰ And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

⁹ Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

⁹ And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her. ¹⁰ Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours. ¹¹ And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.

²⁶ And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?

¹⁵ And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?

¹⁹ And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.

⁴³ Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.

¹ The king's heart in the hands of the Lord is like the water streams, and by him it is turned in any direction at his pleasure.

²⁷ And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.

⁶ Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you. ⁷ So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry. ⁸ And David said to Achish, But what have I done? what have you seen in your servant while I have been with you till this day, that I may not go and take up arms against those who are now making war on my lord the king? ⁹ And Achish in answer said, It is true that in my eyes you are good, like an angel of God: but still, the rulers of the Philistines have said, He is not to go up with us to the fight. ¹⁰ So get up early in the morning, with the servants of your lord who are with you, and go to the place I have given you, and have no evil design in your heart, for you are good in my eyes; but when there is light enough in the morning, go away. ¹¹ So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.