Genesis 13 Cross References - BBE

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. ² Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold. 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; ⁴ To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord. ⁵ And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; ⁶ So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together. 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. ⁸ Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers. ⁹ Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left. ¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar. ¹¹ So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another. ¹² Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom. ¹³ Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord. ¹⁴ And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west: ¹⁵ For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever. 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. ¹⁷ Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you. 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.

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.

¹ And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

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

⁴⁰ So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.

⁵ And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.

¹⁰ And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.

⁷ And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

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.

¹² Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him. ¹³ And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

¹⁸ But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.

⁷ The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

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.

¹⁰ Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

²¹ Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings. ²² Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart. ²³ If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents; ²⁴ And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys; ²⁵ Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws. ² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright. ³ A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

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.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

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.

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

¹ And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau. ² Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: 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.

⁸ Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

¹ To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. ² My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song. It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made. ² To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies! ² The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

¹⁰ For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

¹ O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

⁸ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

¹⁵ Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

² He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.

¹⁷ I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord is near all those who give honour to his name; even to all who give honour to him with true hearts.

⁹ Then at the sound of your voice, the Lord will give an answer; at your cry he will say, Here am I. If you take away from among you the yoke, the putting out of the finger of shame, and the evil word;

¹² And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

⁹ For then I will give the people a clean language, so that they may all make prayer to the Lord and be his servants with one mind.

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:

¹⁸ With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints, ¹⁹ And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,

²⁰ And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

²⁷ And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

²⁹ Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

⁶ Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

¹⁰ He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose. ¹¹ When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

¹⁷ And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. ¹⁸ And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

⁹ But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

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.

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.

²⁵ But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

²⁰ But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

³⁰ And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

¹⁷ And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

⁹ And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

³ Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

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,

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments; ¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

⁵ Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

¹² That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

³ For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

¹ What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.

²⁷ These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot. ²⁸ And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees. 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. ³⁰ And Sarai had no child. 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.

²⁴ And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no argument on the road.

¹³ And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?

¹ A Song of the going up. Of David. See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

¹⁸ An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

³ It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

⁹ Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.

²⁶ And the day after, he came to them, while they were having a fight, and would have made peace between them, saying, Sirs, you are brothers; why do you do wrong to one another?

¹⁰ Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

⁶ But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges. ⁷ More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

² With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love; ³ Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.

¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments;

⁹ But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

¹⁴ Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

¹ Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. ¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

²² And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

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

⁸ Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

⁸ And most of all be warm in your love for one another; because in love there is forgiveness for sins without number:

⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

⁹ He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. ¹⁰ He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him. ¹¹ But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. ¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him? ¹⁸ My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith. ¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

²⁰ If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen? ²¹ And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

¹⁵ And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

¹⁰ Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

⁷ I am for peace: but when I say so, they are for war.

¹⁸ As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.

⁷ More than this, it is not to your credit to have causes at law with one another at all. Why not put up with wrong? why not undergo loss?

¹³ Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. ¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. ¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

⁸ Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: ⁹ Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing. ¹⁰ For it is said, Let the man who has a love of life, desiring to see good days, keep his tongue from evil and his lips from words of deceit: ¹¹ And let him be turned from evil and do good; searching for peace and going after it with all his heart. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

⁸ And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made. ⁹ And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰ And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.

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.

² They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela which is Zoar.

⁸ And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela that is Zoar, went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,

¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. ²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: ²⁸ And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. 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. ³⁰ Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; ² The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, ³ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, ⁴ The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. ⁵ And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan. ⁶ And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here? ⁷ Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them? ⁸ So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹ For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them. ¹⁰ And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying, 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; ¹² But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord. ¹³ Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead. ¹⁴ And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵ For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people. ¹⁶ Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones; ¹⁷ But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land. ¹⁸ We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage. ¹⁹ For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east. ²⁰ Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war, ²¹ Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him, ²² And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord. ²³ But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward. ²⁴ So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said. ²⁵ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says. ²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead; ²⁷ But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says. ²⁸ So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel. ²⁹ And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage: ³⁰ But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan. ³¹ Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do. ³² We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan. ³³ So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them. ³⁴ And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer; ³⁵ And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah; ³⁶ And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep. ³⁷ And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim; ³⁸ And Nebo and Baal-meon, their names being changed, and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made. ³⁹ And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there. ⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place. ⁴¹ And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair. ⁴² And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.

³ And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.

⁴⁶ He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

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

⁵ My heart is crying out for Moab; her people go in flight to Zoar, and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for they go up with weeping by the slope of Luhith; on the way to Horonaim they send up a cry of destruction.

³ For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

³⁴ The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.

¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

⁸ No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

³ Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

⁹ Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

¹⁴ And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

³ As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

⁶³ I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.

¹⁰ Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

²⁵ Not giving up our meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and all the more because you see the day coming near.

¹² And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

¹ And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

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.

⁵ I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

⁷ And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers ⁸ Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes:

¹¹ And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

⁹ He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.

²⁰ And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

⁴ But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; ⁵ And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. ⁸ See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. ¹¹ But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.

⁷ Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

¹⁸ And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.

⁶ And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

⁹ If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

⁸ For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath. ⁹ Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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

⁴⁶ Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sister, living at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. ⁴⁷ Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways. ⁴⁸ By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daughters have done. ⁴⁹ Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need. ⁵⁰ They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.

¹⁰ And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.

¹³ But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.

²³ And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day. ²⁴ But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

²⁴ So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

³¹ We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

²⁷ And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

¹³ And there is nothing made which is not completely clear to him; there is nothing covered, but all things are open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

⁶ And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

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:

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

¹⁰ And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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.

²⁷ Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.

¹⁸ Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.

⁴ Let your eyes be lifted up, and see: they are all coming together to you: your sons will come from far, and your daughters taken with loving care.

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.

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:

⁷ And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 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.

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?

⁷ The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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; 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;

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.

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.

¹² And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

⁴ And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.

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.

² Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,

¹² And so down to Jordan, stretching to the Salt Sea: all the land inside these limits will be yours. ¹³ And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe: ¹⁴ For the tribe of the children of Reuben, by their fathers' families, and the tribe of the children of Gad, by their fathers' families, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, have been given their heritage: ¹⁵ The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn. ¹⁶ And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ These are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun. ¹⁸ And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land. ¹⁹ And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ²⁰ And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud. ²¹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon. ²² And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli. ²³ Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod: ²⁴ And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a chief, Kemuel, the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵ And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach. ²⁶ And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan. ²⁷ And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi. ²⁸ And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud. ²⁹ These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

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.

⁴ And the Lord said to him, This is the land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: now I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go in there.

⁷ Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?

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; ⁸ You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

²² Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

²⁹ The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

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;

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws. ² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

¹⁸ Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

⁵ Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.

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.

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.

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.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁶ And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

²⁰ As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

¹³ And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.

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;

¹ And Abraham took another wife named Keturah. ² She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. ³ And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. ⁴ And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah. ⁵ Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac; ⁶ But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country. ⁷ Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five. ⁸ And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people. ⁹ And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre; ¹⁰ The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife. ¹¹ Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son. ¹² Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah: ¹³ These are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their generations: Ishmael's first son was Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam ¹⁴ And Mishma and Dumah and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: ¹⁶ These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples. ¹⁷ And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people. ¹⁸ And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers. ¹⁹ Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac: ²⁰ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife. ²¹ Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child. ²² And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord. ²³ And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger. ²⁴ And when the time came for her to give birth, there were two children in her body. ²⁵ And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau. ²⁶ And after him, his brother came out, gripping Esau's foot; and he was named Jacob: Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them. ²⁷ And the boys came to full growth; and Esau became a man of the open country, an expert bowman; but Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents. ²⁸ Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob. ²⁹ And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food; ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright. ³² And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me? ³³ And Jacob said, First of all give me your oath; and he gave him his oath, handing over his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.

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;

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.

¹² And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

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;

¹ Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom. ² Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite, ³ And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth. ⁴ Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel; ⁵ Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan. ⁶ Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. ⁷ For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle. ⁸ So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir Esau is Edom. ⁹ And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir: ¹⁰ These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Esau's wife Adah, and Reuel, the son of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹¹ The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. ¹² And Eliphaz, the son of Esau, had connection with a woman named Timna, who gave birth to Amalek: all these were the children of Esau's wife Adah. ¹³ And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: they were the children of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹⁴ And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon: she was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. ¹⁵ These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, ¹⁶ Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah. ¹⁷ And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath. ¹⁸ And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah. ¹⁹ These were the sons of Esau that is, Edom, and these were their chiefs. ²⁰ These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ²¹ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom. ²² The children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; Lotan's sister was Timna. ²³ And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. ²⁴ And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon. ²⁵ And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah his daughter. ²⁶ These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. ²⁷ These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. ²⁸ These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran. ²⁹ These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, ³⁰ Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. Such were the Horite chiefs in their order in the land of Seir. ³¹ And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel. ³² Bela, son of Beor, was king in Edom, and the name of his chief town was Dinhabah. ³³ At his death, Jobab, son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place. ³⁴ And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place. ³⁵ And at the death of Husham, Hadad, son of Bedad, who overcame the Midianites in the field of Moab, became king; his chief town was named Avith. ³⁶ And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king. ³⁷ And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place. ³⁸ And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, son of Achbor, became king. ³⁹ And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab. ⁴⁰ These are the names of the chiefs of Esau in the order of their families and their places: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, ⁴¹ Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, ⁴² Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, ⁴³ Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

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.

¹³ Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

¹⁰ Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

¹⁰ The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

³ And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;

⁵ For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.

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.

²⁰ Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

⁵ And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.

²³ But David did not take the number of those who were under twenty years old, for the Lord had said that he would make Israel like the stars of heaven in number.

¹⁴ This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁵ Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; ¹⁶ After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war; ¹⁷ And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers; ¹⁸ And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

¹⁸ If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea: ¹⁹ Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.

²² As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.

¹⁶ For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, ¹⁷ As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. ¹⁸ Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

¹² So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

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,

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

¹⁷ So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country; ¹⁸ And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number; ¹⁹ And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns; ²⁰ And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready. ²¹ So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath. ²² They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt. ²³ And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs. ²⁴ That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.

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

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

¹³ And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.

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;

² And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

²⁷ And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

¹⁴ And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

²² They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.

¹³ And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.

⁸ I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

⁸ It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.