Deuteronomy 21 Cross References - CAB

¹ And if one should be found slain with the sword in the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has killed him, ² then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man. ³ And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not labored, and which has not borne a yoke. ⁴ And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley. ⁵ And the priests, the Levites, shall come near, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by Him, and to bless in His name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided. ⁶ And all the elders of that city who draw near to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley; ⁷ and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it. ⁸ Be merciful to Your people Israel, O Lord, whom You have redeemed, that innocent blood may not be charged on Your people Israel; and atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. ⁹ And you shall take away innocent blood from among you, if you should do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God. ¹⁰ And if when you go out to war against your enemies, the Lord your God should deliver them into your hands, and you should take their spoil, ¹¹ and should see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and should desire her, and take her to yourself for a wife, ¹² and should bring her within your house; then shall you shave her head, and trim her nails, ¹³ and shall take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in your house, and shall mourn her father and mother for a full month; and afterwards you shall go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be your wife. ¹⁴ And it shall be if you do not delight in her, you shall send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, you shall not treat her contemptuously, because you have humbled her. ¹⁵ And if a man has two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him children, and the son of the hated should be firstborn; ¹⁶ then it shall be that whenever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the firstborn to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the firstborn. ¹⁷ But he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one, to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright. ¹⁸ And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them; ¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place; ²⁰ and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveler and a drunkard. ²¹ And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear. ²² And if there be sin in anyone, and the judgment of death be upon him, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree; ²³ his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall by all means bury it in that day; for everyone that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and you shall by no means defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

⁶ You will destroy all that speak falsehood: the Lord abhors the bloody and deceitful man.

¹² For He remembered them, in making inquisition for blood; He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

¹⁷ He that becomes surety for a man charged with murder shall be in exile, and not in safety. ^(28:17A) Chasten your son, and he shall love you, and give honor to your soul: he shall not obey a sinful nation.

²¹ For behold, the Lord is bringing wrath from His holy place on those that dwell upon the earth; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall not cover her slain.

⁴ And when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "Certainly this man is a murderer, whom though he was rescued from the sea, justice does not permit to continue living."

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment; ¹⁹ they shall not pervert judgment, nor favor persons, nor receive a gift; for gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

³ For rulers are not a fear to good works, but to evil. And do you wish not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you shall have praise from the same. ⁴ For he is God's servant to you for good. But if you do evil, fear; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God's servant, an avenger for wrath to the one practicing evil.

² This is the constitution of the law, as the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, and let them take for you a red heifer without spot, which has no spot on her, and on which no yoke has been put.

¹⁸ I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, and saying, You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not willingly taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You are the Lord my God.

²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving behind an example for you, that you should follow in His footsteps, ²² "Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth"; ²³ who, being verbally abused, did not return verbal insults, when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; ²⁴ who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

²² And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ²³ Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them, ²⁴ The Lord bless you and keep you; ²⁵ the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and have mercy upon you; ²⁶ the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. ²⁷ And they shall put My name upon the children of Israel, and I the Lord will bless them.

⁸ At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in His name, to this day.

⁸ And if a matter shall be too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, and between cause and cause, and between stroke and stroke, and between contradiction and contradiction, matters of judgment in your cities; ⁹ then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days, and they shall search out the matter and report the judgment to you. ¹⁰ And you shall do according to the sentence which they shall report to you out of the place in which the Lord your God shall choose, and you shall observe to do all things having been appointed to you by the law. ¹¹ You shall do according to the law and to the judgment which they shall declare to you: you shall not swerve to the right hand or to the left from any sentence which they shall report to you. ¹² And any man that shall act in haughtiness, so as not to hearken to the priest who stands to minister in the name of the Lord your God, or the judge who shall preside in those days, that man shall die, and you shall remove the evil one out of Israel.

⁵ because the Lord has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand before the Lord your God, to minister and bless in His name, himself and his sons among the children of Israel.

¹⁷ then shall the two men between whom the controversy is, stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days.

¹³ The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was appointed for the consecration of the most holy things, he and his sons forever, to burn incense before the Lord, to minister and bless in His name forever.

⁷ For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

³⁰ For if I should wash myself with snow, and purge myself with pure hands,

¹² Who will understand his transgressions? Purge me from my secret sins.

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, and compass Your altar, O Lord;

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

⁷ You shall sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be purified; You shall wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow.

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue shall joyfully declare Your righteousness.

¹³ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

²² Though you should wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, still you are stained by your iniquities before Me, says the Lord.

²⁴ And Pilate, seeing that nothing was being gained, but rather a riot was starting, taking water, he washed his hands clean in front of the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this just Man. You see to it." ²⁵ And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children."

¹⁰ concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances which are imposed until a time of reformation.

¹⁹ And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with you, and if you have not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of your husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse. ²⁰ But if being a married woman you have transgressed, or been polluted, and anyone has lain with you, beside your husband, ²¹ then the priest shall adjure the woman by the oaths of this curse, and the priest shall say to the woman, The Lord bring you into a curse and under an oath in the midst of your people, in that the Lord should cause your thigh to rot and your belly to swell; ²² and this water bringing the curse shall enter into your womb to cause your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, So be it, So be it. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and shall blot them out with the water of the conviction that brings the curse. ²⁴ And he shall cause the woman to drink the water of the conviction that brings the curse; and the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her. ²⁵ And the priest shall take from the hand of the woman the sacrifice of jealousy, and shall present the sacrifice before the Lord, and shall bring it to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the sacrifice as a memorial of it, and shall offer it up upon the altar; and afterwards he shall cause the woman to drink the water. ²⁷ And it shall come to pass, if she has been defiled, and has altogether escaped the notice of her husband, then the water of the conviction that brings the curse shall enter into her; and she shall swell in her belly, and her thigh shall rot, and the woman shall be for a curse in the midst of her people. ²⁸ But if the woman has not been polluted, and is clean, then shall she be guiltless and shall conceive seed.

⁸ The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his place; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and behold, you are taken in your mischief, because you are a bloody man.

²¹ For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off. ²² Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? And does He not judge murders? ²³ One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

³¹ Who will tell him his way to his face, since he has done it? Who shall recompense him? ³² And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. ³³ The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him. ³⁴ How then do you comfort me in vain? Since I have no rest from your molestation.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands) ⁴ if I have requited with evil those who requited me with good; may I then perish empty by means of my enemies.

³³ So shall you not pollute with murder the land in which you dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it. ³⁴ And you shall not defile the land on which you dwell, on which I dwell in the midst of you; for I am the Lord dwelling in the midst of the children of Israel.

²⁸ And David heard of it afterwards, and said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord, even forever, of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

⁴ Moreover he shed innocent blood, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon it.

¹⁵ But be certain of this, that if you kill me, you shall bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.

³ and they went a-whoring in Egypt in their youth. There their breasts fell, there they lost their virginity.

²⁴ And they all shall come upon you from the north, chariots and wheels, with a multitude of nations, shields and targets; and the enemy shall set a watch against you round about;and I will set judgment before them, and they shall take vengeance on you with their judgements. ²⁵ And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant.

¹⁴ And they cried to the Lord, and said, Forbid it, Lord: let us not perish for the sake of this man's life, and bring not righteous blood upon us: for You, O Lord, have done as You willed.

³⁵ so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

¹⁵ who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God and are against all men, ¹⁶ forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost.

¹⁸ if you will hear the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments, all that I charge you this day, to do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord your God.

¹² then shall the elders of his city send, and take him from there, and they shall deliver him into the hands of the avengers of blood, and he shall die. ¹³ Your eye shall not spare him; so shall you purge innocent blood from Israel, and it shall be well with you.

³⁰ And the Lord said to Jehu, Because of all your deeds in which you have acted well in doing that which was right in My eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Ahab, as they were in My heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. ³¹ But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

¹⁰ And if you shall draw near to a city to overcome them by war, then call them out peaceably. ¹¹ If then they should answer peaceably to you, and open to you, it shall be that all the people found in it shall be tributary and subject to you. ¹² But if they will not hearken to you, but wage war against you, you shall besiege it; ¹³ until the Lord your God shall deliver it into your hands, and you shall strike every male in it with the edge of the sword; ¹⁴ except the women and the stuff; and all the livestock, and whatsoever shall be in the city, and all the plunder you shall take as spoil for yourself, and shall eat all the plunder of your enemies whom the Lord your God gives you. ¹⁵ Thus shall you do to all the cities that are very far off from you, not being of the cities of these nations which the Lord your God gives you to inherit their land. ¹⁶ Of these you shall not take anything alive;

⁴⁴ And the Lord gave them rest round about, as He swore to their fathers; not one of all their enemies maintained his ground against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

^{2 (6:3)} that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

¹⁴ And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt — the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful — ¹⁵ that the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh, and brought her into Pharaoh's house.

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel. ¹⁹ And Laban said to him, It is better that I should give her to you, than that I should give her to another man; dwell with me. ²⁰ And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they seemed only a few days, because of the love that he had for her.

³ And he was strongly attracted to the soul of Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young woman, and he spoke kindly to the young woman.

⁸ And Hamor spoke to them, saying, Shechem my son has chosen your daughter in his heart; therefore give her to him for a wife,

¹⁸ And as for all the captivity of women, who have not known a man intimately, keep them alive.

² And he went up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; and now take her to me for a wife. ³ And his father and his mother said to him, Are there no daughters among your brethren, and is there not a woman of all my people that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Sampson said to his father, Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.

²⁵ Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be caught by her eyes, or captivated with her eyelids.

¹⁰ Who shall find a virtuous woman? For such a one is more valuable than precious stones.

³⁰ Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord.

⁹ And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, he shall shave off all his hair, his head and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave; and he shall wash his garments, and wash his body with water, and shall be clean.

⁹ And if anyone should die suddenly by him, immediately the head of his vow shall be defiled; and he shall shave his head in whatever day he shall be purified: on the seventh day he shall be shaved.

⁶ For if a woman is not covered, let her also have her hair cut. But if it is a shameful thing for a woman to have her hair cut, or to be shaved, let her be covered.

²² that you put off, concerning your former way of life, the old man which is being corrupted according to the deceitful lusts,

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house. ¹¹ Because the King has desired your beauty; for He is your Lord.

²⁶ If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

² And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her.

⁷ And if anyone sell his daughter as a domestic, she shall not depart as the maidservants depart. ⁸ If she be not pleasing to her master, after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her. ⁹ And if he should have betrothed her to his son, he shall do to her according to the right of daughters. ¹⁰ And if he take another to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her companionship with him. ¹¹ And if he will not do these three things to her, she shall go out free without money.

¹⁹ and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.

²⁴ you shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the young woman, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.

²⁹ the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver shekels, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away.

²⁴ Behold my daughter is a virgin, and the man's concubine is here as well: I will bring them out, and humble them, and do to them that which is good in your eyes; but to this man do not do such a vile thing!

¹⁸ And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.

²⁰ And Jacob served for Rachel seven years, and they seemed only a few days, because of the love that he had for her.

³⁰ And he went in to Rachel; and he loved Rachel more than Leah; and he served him seven other years. ³¹ And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

³³ And she conceived again, and bore a second son to Jacob; and she said, Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, He has given to me this one also; and she called his name Simeon.

⁴ And the day came, and Elkanah sacrificed, and gave portions to his wife Peninnah and her children. ⁵ And to Anna he gave a prime portion, because she had no child, only Elkanah loved Anna more than the other; but the Lord had closed her womb.

² for Judah was very mighty even among his brethren, and one was to be a ruler out of him: but the blessing was Joseph's).

¹⁰ And to Hosah of the sons of Merari there were born sons, keeping the dominion; though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him chief of the second division.

¹⁹ And she bore him sons: Jeush, Shamariah, and Zaham. ²⁰ And afterwards he took to himself Maachah, granddaughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. ²¹ And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and all his concubines; for he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines. And he begot twenty-eight sons, and sixty daughters. ²² And he made Abijah the son of Maachah chief, even a leader among his brethren, for he intended to make him king.

³ And their father gave them many gifts, silver and gold and arms, together with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, for he was the firstborn.

²⁹ Because whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

⁸ Finally, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are just, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely--if there is any virtue and if there is any praise--meditate on these things.

¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright. ¹⁷ For you know that indeed afterward, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, having sought it out diligently with tears.

⁵ But Abraham gave all his possessions to Isaac his son. ⁶ But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and he sent them away from his son Isaac, while he was yet living, to the country of the east.

³¹ And Jacob said to Esau, Sell me this day your birthright. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and for what good does this birthright belong to me? ³³ And Jacob said to him, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him; and Esau sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and a stew of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; thus Esau despised his birthright.

³ Reuben, you are my firstborn, you my strength, and the first of my children, hard to be endured, hard and self-willed.

¹ And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but because of his going up to his father's couch, his father gave his blessing to his son Joseph, even the son of Israel; and he was not reckoned as firstborn; ² for Judah was very mighty even among his brethren, and one was to be a ruler out of him: but the blessing was Joseph's).

³⁶ He smote also every firstborn of their land, the firstfruits of all their labor.

¹² Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the good land, which the Lord your God gives to you.

¹⁵ Whoever strikes his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.

¹⁷ He that reviles his father or his mother shall surely die.

³ Let everyone of you reverence his father and his mother; and you shall keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

⁹ And if the daughter of a priest should be profaned to go a whoring, she profanes the name of her father: she shall be burned with fire.

⁵ And you shall know in your heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord your God will chasten you.

¹⁶ Cursed is the man that dishonors his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, So be it.

¹⁴ I will be to him a father, and he shall be to Me a son. And when he happens to transgress, then will I chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of your father, and reject not the rules of your mother.

²⁴ He that spares the rod hates his son, but he that loves carefully chastens him.

⁵ A fool scorns his father's instruction, but he that keeps his commandments is more prudent. In abounding righteousness is great strength, but the ungodly shall utterly perish from the earth.

¹⁸ Chasten your son, for so he shall be hopeful; and be not exalted in your soul to haughtiness.

²⁰ The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyes shall see darkness.

¹⁵ Folly is attached to the heart of a child, but the rod and instruction are then far from him.

¹³ Refrain not from chastening a child, for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die. ¹⁴ For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death.

²⁴ He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he does not sin, the same is partaker with an ungodly man.

¹⁷ Chasten your son, and he shall give you rest, and he shall give honor to your soul.

¹¹ A wicked generation curse their father, and do not bless their mother.

¹⁷ The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.

² Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth! For the Lord has spoken, saying, I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

⁵ Why should you be smitten anymore, transgressing more and more? The whole head is pained, and the whole heart sad.

³ O Lord, Your eyes are upon faithfulness. You have scourged them, but they have not grieved; You have consumed them; but they would not receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.

⁷ In you they have reviled father and mother; and in you they have behaved unjustly toward the stranger; they have oppressed the orphan and widow.

¹³ Her scum shall become shameful, because you defiled yourself; and what if you shall be purged no more until I have accomplished My wrath?

¹¹ I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became as a brand plucked out of the fire; yet not even then did you return to Me, says the Lord. ¹² Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: because I will do thus to you, prepare to call on your God, O Israel.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ² "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise: ³ "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

⁹ Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days were disciplining us, as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, in order to partake of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no discipline seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, later it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those having been trained by it.

¹⁸ You shall make for yourself judges and officers in your cities, which the Lord your God gives you in your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment;

² then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man.

⁷ And if the man should not be willing to take his brother's wife, then shall the woman go up to the gate to the elders, and she shall say, My husband's brother will not raise up the name of his brother in Israel, my husband's brother has refused.

³ And it shall come to pass, if a man will yet prophesy, that his father and his mother which gave birth to him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you have spoken lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother who gave him birth shall bind him as he is prophesying.

²⁶ He that dishonors his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.

¹ Wine is a mocker, and strong drink full of violence; but every fool is entangled with them.

¹⁹ Hear, my son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart. ²⁰ Be not a winebibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh; ²¹ for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor, and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.

²⁹ Who has woe? Who has trouble? Who has quarrels? And who complains and disputes? Who has bruises without a cause? Whose eyes are livid? ³⁰ Are not those of them that stay long at wine? Are not those of them that haunt the places where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse with them openly. ³¹ For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle. ³² But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent. ³³ Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things. ³⁴ And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm. ³⁵ And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?

¹⁶ And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.

⁵ And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream shall die; for he has spoken to make you err from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed you from bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you abolish the evil from among you.

¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw you away from the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not again do according to this evil thing among you.

⁵ then shall you bring out that man, or that woman, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die.

¹⁹ then shall you do to him as he wickedly devised to do against his brother, and you shall remove the evil from yourselves. ²⁰ And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

²¹ then shall they bring out the young woman to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by harlotry: so you shall remove the evil one from among you.

⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the princes of the people, and make them examples of judgment for the Lord in the face of the sun, and the anger of the Lord shall be turned away from Israel.

⁶ Lest the avenger of blood pursue after the manslayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, if the way be too long, and kill him, though there is to this man no sentence of death, because he did not hate him in times past.

²⁶ And the young woman has not committed a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and slay him, so is this thing;

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Ai on the gallows, and he remained on the tree till evening. And when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones to this day.

²⁶ And Joshua killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening.

¹⁶ And this thing is not good which you have done. As the Lord lives, you are worthy of death, you who guard your lord the king, the Lord's anointed. And now behold, the spear of the king, and the jug of water — where are the articles that should be at his head?

¹² And David commanded his young men, and they killed them, and cut off their hands and their feet; and they hung them up at the fountain in Hebron. And they buried the head of Ishbosheth in the tomb of Abner the son of Ner.

⁶ Let one give us seven men of his sons, and let us hang them up in the sun to the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, as chosen out for the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

⁹ And he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them up to the sun in the mountain before the lord. And they fell, even the seven together. Moreover they were put to death in the days of harvest at the commencement, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

⁶⁶ What do you think?" They answered and said, "He is deserving of death."

⁶⁴ You have heard the blasphemy! How does it appear to you?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

³³ And when they came to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified Him and the evildoers, one on the right, and one on the left.

³¹ Therefore the Jews, since it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away. ³² Then the soldiers came and they broke the legs of the first man, and of the other who was crucified with Him. ³³ But having come to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. ³⁴ But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out. ³⁵ And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he tells the truth, so that you may believe. ³⁶ For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not a bone of His shall be broken." ³⁷ And again another Scripture says, "They shall look at Him whom they pierced." ³⁸ After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away the body of Jesus.

²⁹ and I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had no accusation against him worthy of death or chains.

¹¹ For if I am doing wrong, and have done anything worthy of death, I am not trying to escape a death sentence; but if there is nothing in these things of which these people are accusing me, no one is able to deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar."

²⁵ But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

³¹ and when they withdrew, they were speaking among themselves, saying, "This man practices nothing worthy of death or chains."

²⁵ and the land is polluted; and I have recompensed their iniquity to them because of it, and the land is aggrieved with them that dwell upon it.

²⁶ And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, so should you be an accursed thing like it; you shall utterly detest it, and altogether abominate it, because it is an accursed thing.

¹² And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will no longer be with you, unless you remove the accursed thing from yourselves.

²⁶ And Joshua killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening. ²⁷ And it came to pass toward the setting of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast them into the cave into which they had fled for refuge, and rolled stones to the cave, which remain to this day.

³¹ Therefore the Jews, since it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away.

³ For I could wish that I myself to be accursed from Christ on behalf of my brothers, my countrymen according to the flesh,

²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema. Marana tha!

²¹ For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

¹³ Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"