Genesis 17 Cross References - BBE

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, ² And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased. ³ And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said, 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. 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. ⁹ And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations. ¹⁰ And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision. ¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you. ¹² Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed. ¹³ He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time. ¹⁴ And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him. ¹⁵ And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah. 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. ¹⁷ Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care! ¹⁹ And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him. 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. ²¹ But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time. ²² And having said these words, God went up from Abraham. ²³ And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him. ²⁴ Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision. ²⁵ And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision. ²⁶ Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day. ²⁷ And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.

²² And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

²⁴ And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.

⁹ These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.

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:

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.

¹⁶ Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.

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;

¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

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.

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;

¹⁵ And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,

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.

²³ And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

¹³ You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

⁴ So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.

⁶ And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.

²⁵ So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

¹ There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

⁷ Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

³ But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

⁹ I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.

³ O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.

¹⁷ Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?

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

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

²⁶ And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.

⁶ They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.

¹ And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

¹⁶ And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

²⁵ So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.

²⁸ If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:

⁹ Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

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.

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:

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.

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;

⁸ He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations; 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:

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect. ¹⁸ Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.

¹⁷ Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

⁶ And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

²³ And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of meeting, and came out and gave the people a blessing, and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people. ²⁴ And fire came out from before the Lord, burning up the offering on the altar and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they gave a loud cry, falling down on their faces.

⁵ Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.

²² Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

⁴⁵ Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

¹⁴ And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

²⁰ And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.

³⁹ And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.

²⁸ Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

²³ Then I got up and went out into the valley; and I saw the glory of the Lord resting there as I had seen it by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.

⁸ Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem?

¹⁷ So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end. ¹⁸ Now while he was talking to me, I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth: but touching me, he put me on my feet where I had been.

⁹ But the sound of his words came to my ears, and on hearing his voice I went into a deep sleep with my face to the earth.

⁶ And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear.

¹⁷ And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁹ But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses in the waste land of Sinai, in the Tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, ² Take the full number of the children of Israel, by their families, and by their fathers' houses, every male by name; ³ All those of twenty years old and over, who are able to go to war in Israel, are to be numbered by you and Aaron. ⁴ And to give you help, take one man from every tribe, the head of his father's house. ⁵ These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur; ⁶ From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai; ⁷ From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab; ⁸ From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar; ⁹ From Zebulun, Eliab, the son of Helon; ¹⁰ Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, ¹¹ From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni; ¹² From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai; ¹³ From Asher, Pagiel, the son of Ochran; ¹⁴ From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel; ¹⁵ From Naphtali, Ahira, the son of Enan. ¹⁶ These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name; ¹⁸ And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over. ¹⁹ As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so they were numbered by him in the waste place of Sinai. ²⁰ The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²¹ Forty-six thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Reuben were numbered. ²² The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war; ²³ Fifty-nine thousand, three hundred of the tribe of Simeon were numbered. ²⁴ The generations of the sons of Gad were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁵ Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered. ²⁶ The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁷ Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered. ²⁸ The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ²⁹ Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered. ³⁰ The generations of the sons of Zebulun were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³¹ Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered. ³² The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³³ Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered. ³⁴ The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁵ Thirty-two thousand, two hundred of the tribe of Manasseh were numbered. ³⁶ The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ³⁷ Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered. ³⁸ The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war; ³⁹ Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered. ⁴⁰ The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴¹ Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered. ⁴² The generations of the sons of Naphtali were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war; ⁴³ Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered. ⁴⁴ These are they who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and by the twelve chiefs of Israel, one from every tribe. ⁴⁵ So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war, ⁴⁶ Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. ⁴⁷ But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them. ⁴⁸ For the Lord said to Moses, ⁴⁹ Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel, ⁵⁰ But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it. ⁵¹ And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death. ⁵² The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag. ⁵³ But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites. ⁵⁴ So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

¹ Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, ² Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel. ³ So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁴ Let all the people of twenty years old and over be numbered, as the Lord has given orders to Moses and the children of Israel who have come out of Egypt. ⁵ Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites: ⁶ Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites. ⁷ These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty. ⁸ And the sons of Pallu, Eliab ⁹ And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord: ¹⁰ And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign. ¹¹ But death did not overtake the sons of Korah. ¹² The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites: ¹³ Of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites. ¹⁴ These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand, two hundred. ¹⁵ The sons of Gad by their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites: ¹⁶ Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites: ¹⁷ Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites. ¹⁸ These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred. ¹⁹ The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan. ²⁰ And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites. ²¹ And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites. ²² These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred. ²³ The sons of Issachar by their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Puvah, the family of the Punites: ²⁴ Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites. ²⁵ These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred. ²⁶ The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites. ²⁷ These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred. ²⁸ The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim. ²⁹ The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir was the father of Gilead: of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites. ³⁰ These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: ³¹ And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites: ³² And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites. ³³ And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ³⁴ These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred. ³⁵ These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites. ³⁶ And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites: ³⁷ These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families. ³⁸ The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: ³⁹ Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites. ⁴⁰ And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: of Naaman, the family of the Naamites. ⁴¹ These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred. ⁴² These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families. ⁴³ All the families of the Shuhamites, as they were numbered, were sixty-four thousand, four hundred. ⁴⁴ The sons of Asher by their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites: of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites. ⁴⁵ Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites: ⁴⁶ And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. ⁴⁷ These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred. ⁴⁸ The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites: ⁴⁹ Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites. ⁵⁰ These are the families of Naphtali by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, four hundred. ⁵¹ Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty. ⁵² And the Lord said to Moses, ⁵³ Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names. ⁵⁴ To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family. ⁵⁵ But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them. ⁵⁶ As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less. ⁵⁷ These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. ⁵⁸ These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. ⁵⁹ Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam. ⁶⁰ Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁶¹ Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord. ⁶² Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel. ⁶³ All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. ⁶⁴ But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.

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; ¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision. ¹³ For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. ¹⁴ For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power; ¹⁵ For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken. 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.

²⁸ There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ. ²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

¹⁵ And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

²⁸ And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.

¹⁶ These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.

²⁵ And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.

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;

² And the nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory: and you will have a new name, given by the mouth of the Lord. ³ And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God. ⁴ You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.

¹⁵ And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:

³ Then on the day after, Pashhur let Jeremiah loose. Then Jeremiah said to him, The Lord has given you the name of Magor-missabib Cause-of-fear-on-every-side, not Pashhur.

⁶ In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

²¹ And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins. ²² Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true, ²³ See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.

⁴² And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas which is to say, Peter.

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.

¹⁷ He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.

⁴ As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

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.

²⁰ Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.

⁶ And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah; ⁷ And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa; ⁸ And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah; ⁹ And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah; ¹⁰ And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah; ¹¹ And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon. ¹² And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel; ¹³ And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor; ¹⁴ And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud; ¹⁵ And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob; ¹⁶ And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ. ¹⁷ So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.

²⁴ That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

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.

¹⁵ And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.

⁴ And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.

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

¹² And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.

¹⁰ I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.

²⁶ And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

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.

³² I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

¹⁴ And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.

⁵⁴ His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever, ⁵⁵ As he gave his word to our fathers.

⁷² To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word, ⁷³ The oath which he made to Abraham, our father, ⁷⁴ That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship, ⁷⁵ In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

³⁹ For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

⁴ Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

⁷ And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named. ⁸ That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

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. ¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.

² In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

¹⁰ For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:

¹⁶ But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.

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

¹⁷ Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

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. ⁸ And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine? ⁹ And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon. ¹⁰ All these he took, cutting them in two and putting one half opposite the other, but not cutting the birds in two. ¹¹ And evil birds came down on the bodies, but Abram sent them away. ¹² Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear. ¹³ And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years; ¹⁴ But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth. ¹⁵ As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place. ¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full. ¹⁷ Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies. 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.

⁴ I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

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.

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.

⁷ And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

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

¹⁶ And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. ¹⁷ It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

¹⁵ And put oil on them as you did on their father, so that they may be my priests: the putting on of oil will make them priests for ever, from generation to generation.

³⁴ And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹³ And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.

³⁷ And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;

² For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.

¹⁸ And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

¹³ And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.

⁵ For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

⁹ The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

¹¹ Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, the measured line of your heritage:

¹⁵ And for this cause it is through him that a new agreement has come into being, so that after the errors under the first agreement had been taken away by his death, the word of God might have effect for those who were marked out for an eternal heritage.

¹⁰ All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

¹⁸ If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

⁴ For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me: ⁵ I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

¹⁵ But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

²⁵ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

⁴⁸ And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

¹⁶ Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

⁶ And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

⁴ Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

²⁵ See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh; ²⁶ On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.

²² Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

⁸ And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

²⁵ Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

²⁸ For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.

³⁰ If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.

⁹ Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness. ¹⁰ How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it: 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;

¹⁸ If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.

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

³ Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law. ⁴ You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace. ⁵ For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness. ⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹² Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

¹¹ For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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

¹¹ In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ; ¹² Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.

³ So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

²⁵ And Saul said, Then say to David, The king has no desire for any bride-price, but only for the private parts of a hundred Philistines so that the king may get the better of his haters. But it was in Saul's mind that David might come to his end by the hands of the Philistines. ²⁶ And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past. ²⁷ So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.

¹⁴ And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

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;

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

⁴ And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

⁴⁸ And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it. ⁴⁹ The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

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

⁵⁹ And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

²¹ And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

²² Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision. ²³ If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

⁵ Being given circumcision on the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in relation to the law, a Pharisee:

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.

³ And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

²⁷ Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

³⁶ And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.

¹ Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

⁴⁴ But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.

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

⁴ If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

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

⁵ But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

⁸ And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.

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

²⁴ Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death. ²⁵ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me. ²⁶ So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.

¹⁵ For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

¹⁹ For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

³³ Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

³⁸ Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.

²⁰ But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people. ²¹ And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

²⁵ For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

²⁷ Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

²⁹ For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

⁸ And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.

³⁰ But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people. ³¹ Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time. ³ So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth. ⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵ All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not. ⁶ For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷ And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey. ⁸ So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again. ⁹ And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day. ¹⁰ So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho. ¹¹ And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day. ¹² And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

²⁰ He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

⁵ The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.

⁸ The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.

¹⁰ They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

³² Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; which agreement was broken by them, and I gave them up, says the Lord.

²⁷ If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.

²⁹ For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.

⁵ No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

²⁸ And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

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

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door. ¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth. ¹² And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old? ¹³ And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child? ¹⁴ Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

⁶⁰ And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

²³ And kings will take care of you, and queens will give you their milk: they will go down on their faces before you, kissing the dust of your feet; and you will be certain that I am the Lord, and that those who put their hope in me will not be shamed.

⁹ For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother. ²⁷ For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband. ²⁸ Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God. ²⁹ But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now. ³⁰ What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman. ³¹ So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

⁶ As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.

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

¹² And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

⁶ And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

²⁴ And fire came out from before the Lord, burning up the offering on the altar and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they gave a loud cry, falling down on their faces.

¹⁸ And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.

²⁵ So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.

⁶ Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

¹⁶ And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

²⁰ Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

¹⁷ So he came and took his place near where I was; and when he came, I was full of fear and went down on my face: but he said to me, Let it be clear to you, O son of man; for the vision has to do with the time of the end.

¹¹ And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.

⁵⁶ Your father Abraham was full of joy at the hope of seeing my day: he saw it and was glad.

¹⁹ And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead he being about a hundred years old and Sarah was no longer able to have children: ²⁰ Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,

⁸ And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.

¹⁶ And the four and twenty rulers, who are seated before God on their high seats, went down on their faces and gave worship to God, saying,

¹² No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth.

¹⁴ You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.

⁶ There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

¹² And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

² But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.

³⁹ And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:

²¹ But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

² And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God. ³ And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

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;

¹⁶ And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant. ¹⁷ Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

¹³ But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John. ¹⁴ And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth. ¹⁵ For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth. ¹⁶ And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord. ¹⁸ And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years. ¹⁹ And the angel, answering, said, I am Gabriel, whose place is before God; I have been sent to say these words to you and to give you this good news. ²⁰ Now, see, you will be without voice or language till the day when these things come about, because you had not faith in my words, which will have effect at the right time.

⁶ But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

¹⁰ And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered. ¹¹ And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow. ¹² And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.

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

¹⁸ Come, take your child in your arms, for I will make of him a great nation.

¹⁰ And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

¹⁰ So she said to Abraham, Send away that woman and her son: for the son of that woman is not to have a part in the heritage with my son Isaac. ¹¹ And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son. ¹² But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

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; 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; ⁵ Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

¹ And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

²⁴ And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.

¹³ If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

⁵⁵ As he gave his word to our fathers.

⁷² To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,

⁷ And he said to them, It is not for you to have knowledge of the time and the order of events which the Father has kept in his control.

⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. ⁶ But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

²⁹ And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

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:

³³ And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.

⁹ Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said, ¹⁰ Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. 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; 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. ¹³ Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him. ¹⁴ And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil. ¹⁵ And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

²² And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven

⁶ And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream. ⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house: ⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

⁴ The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,

²¹ Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.

¹⁸ No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.

³⁰ I and my Father are one.

¹⁰ And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision. ¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you. ¹² Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed. ¹³ He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time. ¹⁴ And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

²⁶ Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day. ²⁷ And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.

¹⁹ For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

²⁴ Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time. ³ So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth. ⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵ All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not. ⁶ For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷ And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey. ⁸ So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again. ⁹ And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.

⁶⁰ I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

¹ Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

³ Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.

²⁵ It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not. ²⁶ If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision? ²⁷ And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. ²⁸ The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: ²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁹ Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness. ¹⁰ How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it: 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; ¹² And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

⁶ Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

¹⁵ For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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.

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 Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word. ⁴ And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.