Exodus 34 Cross References - ISV

¹ The Tablets of the Law ReplacedThe LORD told Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I’ll write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets that you broke. ² Be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning on Mount Sinai, where you are to present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. ³ No one is to come up with you, nor is anyone to be seen anywhere on the mountain. Also, the sheep and cattle are not to graze in front of that mountain.”
⁴ So Moses carved out two stone tablets like the first ones, got up early in the morning, and climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him. He took with him the two stone tablets. ⁵ The LORD came down in a cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed the name of the LORD. ⁶ The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and filled with gracious love and truth. ⁷ He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children’s children to the third and fourth generation.”
⁸ Moses quickly bowed to the ground and prostrated himself in worship. ⁹ He said, “If I’ve found favor in your sight, LORD, please, LORD, walk among us. Certainly this is an obstinate people, but pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your own inheritance.”
¹⁰ The Covenant Promises RepeatedThen the LORD said, “I’m now going to make a covenant. I’ll do miraculous deeds in full view of your people that haven’t been done in all the earth or in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, because it’s an awesome thing that I’ll do with you. ¹¹ Obey what I am commanding you today and I’ll drive out from before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
¹² “Be very careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, so they won’t be a snare among you. ¹³ Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles— ¹⁴ indeed, you are not to bow down in worship to any other god, because the LORD’s name is Jealous—he’s a jealous God— ¹⁵ Otherwise, you may make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and when they prostitute themselves with their gods and offer sacrifices to their gods, someone may invite you and then you may eat some of their sacrifices.
¹⁶ “You are not to take any of their daughters for your sons. Otherwise, when their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they may cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
¹⁷ “You are not to make molten gods for yourselves.
¹⁸ “You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. For seven days, at the appointed time in the month Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
¹⁹ “Everything firstborn belongs to me: all the males of your herds, the firstborn of both cattle and sheep. ²⁰ You are to redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, and if you don’t redeem it, you are to break its neck. You are to redeem every firstborn of your sons, and no one is to appear before me empty-handed.
²¹ “For six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even during plowing time and harvest you are to rest.
²² “You are to observe the Festival of Weeks, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the year. ²³ Three times during the year all your males are to appear in the presence of the LORD God of Israel, ²⁴ since I’m going to drive out nations before you, and enlarge your borders, and no one will covet your land, when you go up to appear in the presence of the LORD your God three times a year.
²⁵ “You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, nor are you to allow the sacrifice of the Festival of Passover to remain until morning.
²⁶ “You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the LORD your God.
“You are not to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
²⁷ Then the LORD told Moses, “Write down these words, because I’m making a covenant with you and with Israel according to these words.”
²⁸ While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.
²⁹ Moses’ Face ShinesWhen Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he had the two tablets in his hand, and he did not know that the skin of his face was ablaze with light because he had been speaking with God. ³⁰ Aaron and all the Israelis saw Moses and immediately noticed that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. ³¹ When Moses called to them, Aaron and the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and he spoke to them. ³² Afterwards all the Israelis came near and he gave them everything the LORD told him on Mount Sinai as commandments. ³³ When Moses finished speaking with them he put a veil over his face, ³⁴ and then whenever Moses would come in the LORD’s presence to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he left the LORD’s presence. When he went out, he would tell the Israelis what he had been commanded. ³⁵ The Israelis would see the face of Moses and that the skin of his face shone; then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with God.

¹⁸ When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two Tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.

¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God and the writing was God’s writing, inscribed on the tablets.

¹⁹ As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he became angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the base of the mountain.

²⁸ While Moses was there with the LORD for 40 days and 40 nights, he did not eat or drink. He wrote the Ten Commandments, the words of the covenant, on the tablets.

¹⁵ “So I turned and went down from the mountain while the mountain was on fire. The two Tablets of the Covenant were in both of my hands. ¹⁶ Then I saw how you had really sinned against the LORD your God! You had made for yourselves a calf, a cast idol. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD your God had commanded. ¹⁷ So I grabbed the two tablets and then threw them out of my hands, breaking them before your eyes.

¹ A Copy of the Ten Commandments“At that time, the LORD told me, ‘Chisel two tablets of stone for yourself just like the first ones, and then come up to me on the mountain. Also make for yourself a wooden chest. ² I’ll write on the tablets what was on the first tablets that you broke. Then place them in the wooden chest.’ ³ So I made a chest out of acacia wood and chiseled two tablets of stones just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. ⁴ Then the LORD inscribed on the tablets what he wrote before, that is, the Ten Commandments that the LORD declared to you on the mountain from the middle of the fire during the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.

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Pay Attention to God’s WordYour word is forever, LORD; it is firmly established in heaven.

¹¹ and be ready for the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

²⁰ When the LORD came down on Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain, he summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

²⁴ The LORD told him, “Go down, and come back up with Aaron, but the priests and the people must not break through to go up to the LORD. Otherwise, he will attack them.”

¹² Moses Receives the Law on the MountainThen the LORD told Moses, “Go up to me on the mountain and stay there. I’ll give you stone tablets with the instruction and law that I’ve written to teach the people.”

²⁵ I fell down in the LORD’s presence for 40 days and nights, because the LORD said he was ready to destroy you.

¹² You are to set boundaries for the people all around: ‘Be very careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch the side of it. Anyone who touches the mountain is certainly to be put to death. ¹³ No hand is to touch that person, but he is certainly to be stoned or shot; whether animal or person, he is not to live.’ They are to approach the mountain only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast.”

²¹ The LORD told Moses, “Go down and warn the people so they don’t break through to look at the LORD, and many of them perish.

¹⁷ “No person is to be there when he enters the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the sacred place, until he comes out and has made atonement on account of himself, his household, and the entire assembly of Israel.

⁵ There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings—a human, the Messiah Jesus.

²⁰ For they could not endure the command that was given: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.”

¹⁸ Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD had come down in fire on it. Smoke went up from it like smoke from a kiln, and the whole mountain shook violently.

⁹ When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the doorway of the tent while God spoke with Moses.

¹⁹ God said, “I’ll cause all my goodness to pass before you, and I’ll proclaim the name ‘the LORD’ before you. I’ll be gracious to whom I’ll be gracious, and I’ll show compassion on whom I’ll show compassion.

¹⁷ Then I’ll come down and speak with you. I’ll take some of the spirit that rests on you and apportion it among them, so that they may help you bear the burden of the people. That way, you won’t bear it by yourself.”

²⁵ The LORD came down in a cloud, spoke to Moses, and made an apportionment from the spirit who rested on him to the 70 elders. When the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but that was it.

¹⁷ “Now, let the power of the LORD be magnified, just as you promised when you said,

³ For I’ll proclaim the name of our LORD. Ascribe greatness to our God!

¹⁰ When the priests left the Holy Place after setting the ark in place, the cloud filled the LORD’s Temple ¹¹ so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, since the glory of the LORD filled the LORD’s Temple.
¹² Solomon’s Speech of Dedication
Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he lives shrouded in darkness.

²¹ so they would declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

¹⁰ The name of the LORD is a strong tower; a righteous person rushes to it and is lifted up above the danger.

¹⁰ “Listen to what the LORD says, you rulers of Sodom, and pay attention to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

³⁴ But while he was saying this, a cloud appeared and surrounded them, and they became terrified as they were being overshadowed by the cloud.
³⁵ Then a voice came out of the cloud and said, “This is my Son, whom I have chosen. Keep listening to him!”

¹³ Moses told God, “Look! When I go to the Israelis and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors sent me to you,’ they’ll say to me, ‘What is his name?’ What should I say to them?”
¹⁴ God replied to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and then said, “Tell the Israelis: ‘I AM sent me to you.’”
¹⁵ God also told Moses, “Tell the Israelis, ‘The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
¹⁶ “Go and gather the elders of Israel. Tell them, ‘The LORD God of your ancestors, appeared to me—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and he said, “I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

²⁷ for it’s his only covering; it’s his outer garment, for what else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I’ll hear him, for I am gracious.

²⁰ But,” he said, “You cannot see my face, because a man cannot see me and live.”
²¹ The LORD said, “Look, there is a place near me where you can stand on the rock; ²² and as my glory passes by, I’ll put you in a crevice in the rock, and cover you with my hand until I’ve passed by. ²³ Then I’ll remove my hand so you may see my back, but my face must not be seen.”

¹⁷ “Now, let the power of the LORD be magnified, just as you promised when you said, ¹⁸ ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won’t acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.’
¹⁹ “Forgive, please, the iniquity of this people, according to your great, faithful love, in the same way that you’ve carried this people from Egypt to this place.”

¹⁰ but showing gracious love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.ג

¹¹ “Go out,” he responded, “and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD.” And there was the LORD, passing by! A tremendous, mighty windstorm was tearing at the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces in the presence of the LORD, but the LORD was not in the windstorm. After the wind there came an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.

⁹ If you return to the LORD, your relatives and children will receive compassion from those who took them away captive, and they’ll return to this land, because the LORD is both gracious and compassionate—he will not turn away from you if you return to him.”

¹⁷ They would not listen, and did not remember the miracles you did among them. Instead, they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return them to their slavery. “But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and rich in gracious love; therefore you did not abandon them.

¹⁹ How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

¹⁰ For your gracious love is great, extending even to the heavens, and your truth even to the skies.

⁵ Indeed you, Lord, are kind and forgiving, overflowing with gracious love to everyone who calls on you.

¹⁵ But you, Lord, are a compassionate God, merciful and patient, with unending gracious love and faithfulness.

⁴ With his feathers he will cover you, under his wings you will find safety. His truth is your shield and armor.

⁸ The LORD is compassionate and gracious, patient, and abundantly rich in gracious love. ⁹ He does not maintain a dispute continuously or remain angry for all time. ¹⁰ He neither deals with us according to our sins, nor repays us equivalent to our iniquity. ¹¹ As high as heaven rises above earth, so his gracious love strengthens those who fear him. ¹² As distant as the east is from the west, that is how far he has removed our sins from us. ¹³ As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him.

⁴ For your gracious love extends to the sky, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

⁴ He is remembered for his awesome deeds; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

⁸ sustained through all eternity, and fashioned in both truth and righteousness.

⁴ A light shines in the darkness for the upright, for the one who is gracious, compassionate, and just.

⁵ The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is compassionate;

² I will bow down in worship toward your holy Temple and give thanks to your name for your gracious love and truth, for you have done great things to carry out your word consistent with your name.

⁸ Gracious and merciful is the LORD, slow to become angry, and overflowing with gracious love.

⁶ maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,

⁴ “Give thanks to the LORD; call on his name. Make known his actions among the nations. Proclaim that his name is exalted.

²³ They are new every morning— great is your faithfulness!

¹³ Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil.

² So he prayed to the LORD, “LORD, isn’t this what I said while I was still in my home country? That’s why I fled previously to Tarshish, because I knew you’re a compassionate God, slow to anger, overflowing with gracious love, and reluctant to send trouble.

¹⁸ Who is like God?Is there any God like you, forgiving iniquity, passing over transgressions by the survivors who are your heritage? He is not angry forever, because he delights in gracious love.

²⁰ You will remain true to Jacob, and merciful to Abraham, as you promised our ancestors long ago.

¹⁷ because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

⁴ Or are you unaware of his rich kindness, forbearance, and patience, that it is God’s kindness that is leading you to repent?

²⁰ Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more, ²¹ so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus the Messiah, our Lord.

⁷ In union with him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God’s grace ⁸ that he lavished on us, along with all wisdom and understanding,

⁵ You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the parents to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, ⁶ but showing gracious love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.ג

⁷ Stay far away from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent or the righteous, because I won’t acquit the guilty.

²¹ Be careful! Be sure to obey him. Don’t rebel against him, because he won’t forgive your transgression, since my Name is in him.

¹⁸ ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abundant in faithful love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he won’t acquit the guilty. He recalls the iniquity of fathers to the third and fourth generation.’
¹⁹ “Forgive, please, the iniquity of this people, according to your great, faithful love, in the same way that you’ve carried this people from Egypt to this place.”
²⁰ God Responds to MosesThe LORD responded, “I’ve forgiven them based on what you’ve said. ²¹ But just as I live, and just as the whole earth will be filled with the LORD’s glory, ²² none of those men who saw my glory and watched my miracles that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness—even though they’ve tested me these ten times and never listened to my voice— ²³ will ever see the land that I promised to their ancestors. Those who spurned me won’t see it.

⁹ You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of their parents to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, ¹⁰ but showing gracious love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.ג

³⁵ To me belong vengeance and recompense. In due time their feet will slip, because their time of calamity is near and the things prepared for them draw near.

¹⁹ So Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to serve the LORD, because he is a God of Holiness. He is a jealous God, and he will forgive neither your transgressions nor your sins.

⁵ I said, “Please, LORD, God of Heaven, the great and fearsome God who keeps the covenant, showing gracious love to those who love you and keep your commands,

³² “Now therefore, our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and gracious love, don’t let all of the difficulties seem trifling to you, all of hardships that have come upon us, upon our kings, upon our leaders, upon our priests, upon our prophets, upon our ancestors, and upon all of your people from the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

¹⁴ If I sin, you watch me and won’t acquit me for my iniquity.

¹⁶ The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude ¹⁷ The wicked will turn back to where the dead are— all the nations that have forgotten God.

⁵ The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence, he hates. ⁶ He rains on the wicked burning coals and sulfur; a scorching wind is their destiny.

¹⁰ The righteous person will rejoice when he sees your vengeance; when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked. ¹¹ A person will say, “Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

³ He continues to forgive all your sins, he continues to heal all your diseases,

⁴ But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be feared.

¹⁰ to the one who struck the firstborn of Egypt, for his gracious love is everlasting—

¹⁵ and cast Pharaoh and his armies into the Reed Sea, for his gracious love is everlasting.

²¹ Explain and present a case! Yes, let them take counsel together. Who announced this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides me, a righteous God and Savior; and there is none besides me.

¹⁸ You, the great God, the mighty one, show gracious love to thousands and repay the parents’ iniquity to their children after them. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name.

⁴ I prayed to the LORD my God, confessing and saying: ‘Lord! Great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant and gracious love for those who love him and obey his commandments,

⁹ But to the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we’ve rebelled against him

¹¹ Will I tolerate those who maintain deceptive standards and who use deceitful weights in their business?

² The LORD’s Anger against AssyriaA jealous God, the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges; The Lord is an angry husband. The LORD takes vengeance on his enemies, reserving anger for his adversaries. ³ The LORD is slow to anger and powerful, and he will never let the guilty go unpunished. The LORD’s path is in the windstorm and hurricane; thunderclouds are dust beneath his feet.

⁶ Who can stand before his fury? And who can endure his fierce anger? His displeasure pours out like fire, and rocks are broken to pieces because of him.

¹⁴ Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses.”

³¹ So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

³² Then his master sent for him and told him, ‘You evil servant! I canceled that entire debt for you because you begged me. ³³ Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you?’ ³⁴ In anger his master handed him over to the jailers until he could repay the entire debt. ³⁵ This is how my heavenly Father will treat each one of you unless you forgive your brother from your hearts.”

⁴² When they couldn’t pay it back, he generously canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?”

⁴⁸ Then Jesus told her, “Your sins are forgiven!”

³¹ God has exalted to his right hand this very man as our Leader and Savior in order to extend repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

³⁸ “Therefore, brothers, you must understand that through him the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

⁴ Or are you unaware of his rich kindness, forbearance, and patience, that it is God’s kindness that is leading you to repent?
⁵ But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. ⁶ For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done: ⁷ eternal life to those who strive for glory, honor, and immortality by patiently doing good; ⁸ but wrath and fury for those who in their selfish pride refuse to believe the truth and practice wickedness instead. ⁹ There will be suffering and anguish for every human being who practices doing evil, for Jews first and for Greeks as well.

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever the Law says applies to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. ²⁰ Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
²¹ God Gives Us Righteousness through FaithBut now, apart from the Law, God’s righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets— ²² God’s righteousness through the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah— for all who believe. For there is no distinction among people, ²³ since all have sinned and continue to fall short of God’s glory. ²⁴ By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus, ²⁵ whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah’s blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past. ²⁶ He wanted to demonstrate at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies anyone who has the faithfulness of Jesus.

⁷ “How blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered! ⁸ How blessed is the person whose sins the Lord will never charge against him!”

²² Now if God wants to demonstrate his wrath and reveal his power, can’t he be extremely patient with the objects of his wrath that are made for destruction? ²³ Can’t he also reveal his glorious riches to the objects of his mercy that he has prepared ahead of time for glory—

⁷ In union with him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God’s grace

³² And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

²⁹ For “our God is an all-consuming fire.”

⁹ If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

¹⁵ Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.

⁸ But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

³ Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him.

³¹ The people believed and understood that the LORD had paid attention to the Israelis and had seen their affliction. They bowed their heads and prostrated themselves in worship.

¹⁸ Jehoshaphat bowed down with his face to the ground, and all the assembled inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem fell face down in the LORD’s presence and worshipped the LORD.

⁵ And now if you carefully obey me and keep my covenant, you are to be my special possession out of all the peoples, because the whole earth belongs to me,

⁹ Then the LORD told Moses, “I’ve seen these people and indeed they’re obstinate.

³ Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won’t go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way.”
⁴ When the people heard this troubling word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. ⁵ The LORD had told Moses, “Say to the Israelis, ‘You are an obstinate people, and if for one moment I went up among you, I would put an end to you. Now take off your ornaments so I may decide what to do with you.’”

¹³ Now, if I’ve found favor in your sight, please show me your ways so I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. And remember, this nation is your people.”
¹⁴ He said, “My presence will go with you, and I’ll give you rest.” ¹⁵ Then Moses told the LORD, “If your presence does not go with us, don’t bring us up from here. ¹⁶ Otherwise, how shall it be known that your people and I have received favor from you, unless you go with us and that we, your people and I, are distinguished from all the people on the surface of the earth?”
¹⁷ Moses Sees God’s GloryThe LORD told Moses, “I’ll do the very thing that you have said, because you have found favor in my sight and I know you by name.”

¹⁹ “Forgive, please, the iniquity of this people, according to your great, faithful love, in the same way that you’ve carried this people from Egypt to this place.”

⁹ For the LORD’s portion is his people; Jacob is his allotted portion.

¹¹ For the sake of your name, LORD, forgive my sin, for it is great.

⁹ Deliver your people and bless your inheritance! Shepherd them and lift them up forever!

¹² How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.

⁶² He delivered his people over to the sword and was angry with his possession.

¹⁴ For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage.

⁴ It is Jacob whom the LORD chose for himself— Israel as his personal possession.

⁴ Because I knew that you are obstinate, and because your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead is bronze,

¹⁶ The Portion of Jacob is not like these. He made everything, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name.

¹² The LORD will take possession of Judah as his own property in the Holy Land—and he will choose Jerusalem again.

²⁰ teaching them to obey everything that I’ve commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age.”

⁷ He took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, “We will put into practice and obey everything that the LORD has decreed.”
⁸ Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD made with you based on all these words.”

²⁷ Then the LORD told Moses, “Write down these words, because I’m making a covenant with you and with Israel according to these words.”

¹³ He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to observe—the Ten Commandments that he wrote on two stone tablets.

³² Who is Like the LORD?“Indeed, ask from one end of the heavens to the other about days of old, before your time, when God created mankind on the earth. Did we ever have anything as great as this, or ever hear of anything like it? ³³ Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did, and survived it? ³⁴ Or has any god ever taken for himself one nation out from another nation with testings, signs, wonders, wars, awesome power, and magnificent, terrifying deeds as the LORD your God did in Egypt before your eyes?
³⁵ “You have been shown this in order to know that ‘the LORD is God’ and there is no one like him. ³⁶ You have been made to hear his voice from heaven so you may be instructed. And he showed you his great fire here on earth, and you heard his voice from the middle of that fire. ³⁷ Moreover, he loved your ancestors, chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt, accompanied by his presence and great power,

² When the LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb, ³ it was not with our ancestors that the LORD made this covenant, but with us—we who are here today—all of us who are now living.

²¹ He is the one you are to praise, because he is, your God who carried out those great and awesome things for you that you witnessed.

¹² to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God and into the oath that he is about to make with you today, ¹³ so that he will elevate you to be a people for him. And he will be God to you, just as he promised you and swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. ¹⁴ Now, I’m not making this covenant and oath with you alone,

³⁰ How can one person chase a thousand of them and two put a myriad to flight, unless their Rock delivers them and the LORD gives them up?

²⁰ So the army shouted and the trumpets were blown again. As soon as the army heard the sound of the trumpets, they shouted loudly and the wall collapsed. The army charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

¹² Later that day, Joshua spoke to the LORD while the LORD was delivering the Amorites to the Israelis. This is what he said in the presence of Israel: “Sun, be still over Gibeon Moon, stand in place in the Aijalon Valley” ¹³ So the sun remained still and the moon stood in place until the nation settled their score with their enemies.
This is recorded, is it not, in the book of Jashar? The sun stood in place in the middle of the sky and seemed not to be in a hurry to set for nearly an entire day.

²³ “And who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, to make a name for himself, and to carry out for them great and awe-inspiring accomplishments, driving out nations and their gods in front of your people, whom you redeemed to yourself from Egypt?

⁵ With awesome deeds of justice you will answer us, God our Deliverer; you are the confidence for everyone at the ends of the earth, even for those far away overseas.

³ Say to God: “How awesome are your works! Because of your great strength your enemies cringe before you.”

⁵ Come and see the awesome works of God on behalf of human beings:

³⁵ You are awesome, God, from your sanctuaries. The God of Israel is the one who gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God!

¹² He will humble the arrogant commanders-in-chief, instilling fear among the kings of the earth.

¹⁴ God, you are the one performing awesome deeds. You reveal your might among the nations.

¹² He performed marvelous things in the presence of their ancestors in the land of Egypt— in the fields of Zoan.

²² awesome deeds in the land of Ham, astonishing deeds at the Reed Sea.

⁶ People will speak about the might of your great deeds, and I will announce your greatness.

²⁰ He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!

³ When you did awesome deeds that we expected, you came down, and the mountains shuddered before you.

²¹ By your strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror, you brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders.

¹⁸ That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: “I’m giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River— ¹⁹ including the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, ²⁰ the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, ²¹ the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”

⁸ so I have come down to deliver them from their domination by the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

¹⁷ I have said that I will bring you out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites—to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’

² I’ll send an angel in front of you and I’ll drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

¹ Moses Presents the Privileges of the Covenant“Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I’m teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you. ² Do not add or subtract a thing to what I’m commanding you. Observe the commands of the LORD your God.

⁴⁰ May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I’m giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you’ll live a long life in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you permanently.”

³² You must be careful to do what the LORD your God commanded you, turning neither to the left nor to the right.

³ Listen, Israel! Be careful to obey, so that life may go well for you and that you may increase greatly. Just as the LORD God of your ancestors told you, you’ll have a land flowing with milk and honey.

²⁵ It will be credited as righteousness for us, if we’re careful to obey the entire Law in the presence of the LORD our God, as he commanded.’”

¹⁹ Your eyes saw the great trials, the signs and wonders, and the awesome power with which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the people whom you fear.

⁴ After the LORD has expelled them before you, you are not to say to yourselves, ‘The LORD caused me to enter and possess this land because of my righteousness.’ ⁵ On the contrary, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you to confirm what the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

²⁸ Be sure to observe all these words that I’m commanding you, in order that life may go well for you and your children after you forever, for this is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.”

³² Now as to everything I’m commanding you, you must be careful to observe it. Don’t add to or subtract from it.”

¹ Rewards for Obedience“Indeed, if you diligently obey the LORD your God to carry out all his commands that I’m giving you today, then the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

²¹ The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him.”

³² You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods. ³³ They are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you.”

² So when the LORD your God delivers them to you and you have defeated them, then utterly destroy them. You are not to make any covenant with them nor be gracious to them.

¹⁶ You are to utterly destroy everyone whom the LORD your God will deliver to you. Don’t have pity on them nor serve their gods. Otherwise, they will become a snare for you.”

¹² because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, ¹³ know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

² As for you, you must not make any treaties with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, tear down their altars.’ But you haven’t obeyed me. What have you done? ³ Therefore I’m now saying, ‘I won’t expel them before you. Instead, they’ll remain at your side, and their gods will ensnare you.’”

²⁷ Gideon crafted the booty into an ephod and enshrined it in his home town of Ophrah. Then all of Israel committed spiritual adultery with it there, and it became a snare for Gideon and his household.

³⁶ They worshipped their idols, and this became a trap for them.

²⁴ You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices, but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

⁵ This is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, break their pillars, cut down their ritual pillars, and burn their carved idols in fire,

²⁵ Burn the images of their gods in the fire. Desire neither the silver nor the gold that adorns them, nor take them for yourselves, so you won’t be ensnared by them, because the gold and silver is detestable to the LORD your God. ²⁶ Don’t bring any detestable thing to your house, because you yourself will be utterly destroyed along with these detestable things. You must absolutely abhor and detest all of it, because it has been devoted to destruction.”

² Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you’re going to dispossess serve their gods—upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree. ³ Tear down their altars, cut down their sacred poles, and burn them. Cut down the carved images of their gods to erase their memory from that place.”

²¹ Prohibited Practices“You are not to set up a sacred pole beside the altar of the LORD your God that you will build.

² As for you, you must not make any treaties with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, tear down their altars.’ But you haven’t obeyed me. What have you done?

²⁵ Later that very night, the LORD told Gideon, “Take the bull that belongs to your father, along with a second bull that’s seven years old. Then tear down the altar to Baal that your father owns, cut down the Asherah that’s beside it,

⁴ Hezekiah’s Reforms
He removed the high places, demolished the sacred pillars, and tore down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had crafted, because the Israelis had been burning incense to it right up until that time. Hezekiah called it a piece of brass.

¹⁴ He broke the pillars to pieces, cut down the Asherim, and filled their locations with human bones.

¹ Idols are Eliminated from Judah
At the conclusion of all of these activities, everybody in Israel who was in attendance traveled throughout the cities of Judah, broke down the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and altars throughout the territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh until they had eliminated all of them. Then the people of Israel went back to their cities and back to their work.

³ In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. In the twelfth year of his reign, he began to remove the high places, Asherim, carved images, and cast images from Judah and Jerusalem.
⁴ They tore down the altars of Baals in his presence. He chopped down the incense altars that stood high above them. He broke into pieces the Asherim, the carved images, and the cast images, ground them to dust, and scattered the residue on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

³ You are to have no other gods besides me.ב ⁴ “You are not to make for yourselves an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above, or on earth below, or in the water under the earth. ⁵ You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the parents to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,

⁵ The LORD came down in a cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed the name of the LORD. ⁶ The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and filled with gracious love and truth. ⁷ He graciously loves thousands, and forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. But he does not leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of the ancestors on their children, and on their children’s children to the third and fourth generation.”

²⁴ Indeed, the LORD your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God.”

⁷ “‘You are to have no other gods besides me

²⁴ ‘The LORD our God truly has displayed his glory and power, for we heard him from out of the fire today. We have witnessed how God spoke to human beings, yet they lived.

¹⁵ For the LORD your God who is among you is a jealous God. He will turn his anger against you and destroy you from the surface of the land.”

²⁰ “The LORD won’t forgive such a person. Instead, the zealous anger of the LORD will blaze against him. All the curses that were written in this book will fall on him. Then the LORD will wipe out his memory from under heaven.

¹⁶ They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

²¹ They provoked me to jealousy over non-gods, and to be angry over their vanity. Now I’ll provoke them to jealousy over a non-people; and over a foolish nation I’ll provoke them to anger.

⁶ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

¹⁵ “For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

² The LORD’s Anger against AssyriaA jealous God, the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges; The Lord is an angry husband. The LORD takes vengeance on his enemies, reserving anger for his adversaries.

¹⁰ Then Jesus told him, “Go away, Satan! Because it is written, ‘You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”

²² or you’ll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won’t you? Are we stronger than he is?

³² You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods.

¹⁰ The Covenant Promises RepeatedThen the LORD said, “I’m now going to make a covenant. I’ll do miraculous deeds in full view of your people that haven’t been done in all the earth or in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, because it’s an awesome thing that I’ll do with you.

¹² “Be very careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, so they won’t be a snare among you.

⁷ They are no longer to slaughter their sacrifices to the goat demons, with whom they have been committing prostitution. This will be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations.

⁵ then I’ll oppose that man and his family and eliminate him from contact with his people, along with all the prostitutes who accompany him and who have committed prostitution with Molech.”
⁶ Consulting the Dead Prohibited“I’ll oppose and eliminate from contact with his people whoever consults mediums or familiar spirits, thereby committing spiritual prostitution with them.

³⁹ That way, when you see the tassel, you’ll remember all the commands of the LORD and you’ll observe them. Then you won’t seek your own interests and desires that lead you to be unfaithful.

² who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods.

¹⁶ Then the LORD told Moses, “Look! You are about to join your ancestors. Afterwards, this people will rebel and commit prostitution with the foreign gods of the land that they are about to enter to possess. They will abandon me and break my covenant that I made with them.

¹⁷ But they didn’t listen to their leaders, because they were committing spiritual immorality by following other gods and worshiping them. They quickly turned away from the road on which their ancestors had walked in obedience to the commands of the LORD. They didn’t follow their example.

⁹ And be sure that you don’t fail to provide their daily needs—including young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of Heaven, along with wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as the priests in Jerusalem tell you—

²⁷ Those far from you will perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.

²⁸ For they adopted the worship of Baal Peor and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

⁹ She took her fornication so lightly that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

¹² My people seek counsel from their piece of wood, and their diviner’s rod speaks to them. For a spirit of prostitution causes them to go astray; in their immorality they desert their God.

¹ Punishment for Israel “Don’t celebrate, Israel, like other nations would rejoice, because you left your God by committing fornication, loving the profit you gained on all of the threshing floors.

⁴ Now concerning eating food offered to idols: We know that no idol is real in this world and that there is only one God.

⁷ But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are so accustomed to idolatry that when they eat food that has been offered to an idol, their conscience becomes contaminated because it is weak.

¹⁰ For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol’s temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won’t he?

²⁰ Hardly! What they offer, they offer to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become partners with demons. ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot dine with the Lord and dine with demons,

²⁷ If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, raising no question on the grounds of conscience.

²⁰ But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet and who teaches and leads my servants to practice immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

¹ The Vision of Babylon the GreatThen one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and told me, “Come, I will show you how the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters will be judged. ² The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those living on earth became drunk with the wine of her immorality.”
³ Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was controlled by blasphemy. It had seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ The woman wore purple and scarlet clothes and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls. In her hand she was holding a gold cup filled with detestable things and the impurities of her immorality. ⁵ On her forehead was written a secret name:
BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES
AND DETESTABLE THINGS OF THE EARTH

¹ Worship of Baal of PeorWhile Israel remained encamped in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with Moabite women, ² who also invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. So the people ate what they had sacrificed and then worshipped their gods.

³ You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons, ⁴ because they will turn your children from me to serve other gods so that the LORD’s anger blazes against you and swiftly destroys you by fire.

² all of them from nations that the LORD had ordered the Israelis, “You are not to associate with them and they are not to associate with you, because they will most certainly turn your affections away to follow their gods.” Solomon became deeply attached to them by falling in love. ³ He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD, ⁴ because as Solomon grew older, his wives turned his affections away after other gods, and his heart was not fully as devoted to the LORD his God as his father David’s heart had been.

² because they and their sons have married foreign women. As a result, the holy people have mingled themselves among the peoples of these lands. As a matter of fact, the senior officials and the rulers have been foremost in this sin.”

²³ Removing Foreign Spouses
At that time I also noticed that Jews had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

²⁵ So I rebuked them, cursed them, struck some of their men, tore out their hair, and made them take this oath in the name of God: “You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

¹⁴ Relating with UnbelieversStop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony exists between the Messiah and Beliar, or what do a believer and an unbeliever have in common? ¹⁶ What agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: “I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” ¹⁷ Therefore, “Get away from them and separate yourselves from them,” declares the Lord, “and don’t touch anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.

⁸ They have been quick to turn aside from the way I commanded them, and they have made for themselves a molten calf. They have bowed down to it in worship, they have offered sacrifices to it, and they have said, ‘This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”

⁴ “You are not to turn to their idols or cast gods out of melted metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

⁶ Those who pour out gold in a purse, weigh silver in a balance, hire a goldsmith in order to make a god, and then they bow down and even worship it. ⁷ And they lift it on their shoulders, carry it, set it up in its place, and there it stands. It cannot move from that spot. One may even call to it, but it cannot answer nor save him from his distress.

¹⁴ Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false. There is no life in them.

²⁹ So if we are God’s children, we shouldn’t think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

²⁶ You also see and hear that, not only in Ephesus, but almost all over Asia, this man Paul has won over and taken away a large crowd by telling them that gods made by human hands are not gods at all.

² “This month will mark the beginning of months for you. It will be the first month of the year for you.

¹⁵ You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day be sure to remove all the leaven from your houses, because any person who eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ Also, on the first day you’re to hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day you’re to hold a holy assembly. No work is to be done during those days, except for preparing what is to be eaten by each person.
¹⁷ “‘You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, since on this very day I brought your tribal divisions from the land of Egypt. You are to observe this day from generation to generation as a perpetual ordinance. ¹⁸ In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month, you are to eat unleavened bread. ¹⁹ For seven days leaven is not to be found in your houses. Indeed, any person who eats anything leavened, is to be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether an alien or a native of the land. ²⁰ You are not to eat what is leavened. You are to eat unleavened bread in all your settlements.’”

⁴ Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.

⁶ You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD. ⁷ Unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days, and nothing leavened is to be seen among you, nor is leaven to be seen among you throughout your territory.

¹⁵ You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty handed.

⁶ On the fifteenth day of that month is the Festival of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread.

¹ Celebrate the Passover“Observe the month of Abib, keeping the Passover to the LORD your God, because the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt during the night in the month of Abib. ² Then sacrifice sheep and cattle for the Passover to the LORD your God at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name. ³ You must not eat any yeast with it. Instead, for seven days eat bread without yeast—the bread of affliction—because you left the land of Egypt in haste. Remember the day you went out of the land of Egypt for the rest of your lives. ⁴ Yeast is not to be seen in any of your territories for seven days. The meat is not to remain from the evening of the first day until morning.

¹ The Plot to Kill Jesus
Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

¹ The Plot to Kill Jesus
Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was near.

³ When he saw how this was agreeable to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter, too. This happened during the Festival of Unleavened Bread.

² “Consecrate to me every firstborn male. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the Israelis, both of humans and of animals, belongs to me.”

¹² you are to dedicate to the LORD everything that first opens the womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

²⁹ “You are not to hold back the fullness of your harvest and the outflow of your wine presses. You are to give to me the firstborn of your sons.

¹⁵ Everything that opens the womb, any living thing that they bring to the LORD—whether from human beings or animals—are for you. Just be sure that you redeem the firstborn of people and the firstborn of unclean animals. ¹⁶ Those that can be redeemed, you are to redeem at the age of one month, based on your estimate—for five shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, that is, for 20 gerahs. ¹⁷ But you are not to redeem the firstborn of a cow, sheep, or a female goat. They are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

³⁰ The first portion of all the first fruits of every kind and every offering of any kind is to be for the priests. You are to give the priest the first portion of your grain. As a result a blessing will rest on your household.

²³ as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every firstborn son is to be designated as holy to the Lord.”

¹⁰ You are to keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.”

¹³ You are to redeem every firstborn donkey with a lamb, and if you don’t redeem it, you are to break its neck. You are to redeem every firstborn among your sons.

¹⁵ And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of humans to the firstborn of animals. Therefore, I sacrifice to the LORD every male that first opens the womb, but I redeem every firstborn of my sons.

⁴⁵ “Separate the descendants of Levi in place of all the firstborn sons of Israel and the livestock of the descendants of Levi in place of their livestock. The descendants of Levi belong to me, since I am the LORD. ⁴⁶ You are to pay a ransom for the 273 first-born Israelis who exceed the census number of the descendants of Levi, ⁴⁷ so collect five shekels for each individual, denominated in shekels of the sanctuary, that is, the shekel that weighs 20 gerahs. ⁴⁸ Then give the money meant for ransom of their excess to Aaron and his sons.”
⁴⁹ So Moses took the ransom money to account for the difference in the total number of those redeemed by the descendants of Levi. ⁵⁰ From the firstborn of the Israelis, Moses took money amounting to 1,365 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary. ⁵¹ Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and his sons according to the LORD’s instructions, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

¹⁵ Everything that opens the womb, any living thing that they bring to the LORD—whether from human beings or animals—are for you. Just be sure that you redeem the firstborn of people and the firstborn of unclean animals.

¹⁶ “Every male must appear in the presence of the LORD your God three times a year at the place where he will choose: for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Seven Weeks, and the Festival of Tents. He must not appear in the LORD’s presence empty-handed,

⁷ Saul told the young man, “Look, we could go, but what could we bring the man? The bread is gone from our bags, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have with us?”
⁸ The young man answered Saul again, “Look here! I have in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I’ll give it to the man of God, and he will tell us about our journey.”

²⁴ “No!” the king replied to Araunah. “I will buy them from you at full price. I won’t offer to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for 50 silver shekels,

⁶ That’s because this famine has been going on for two years now in this region, and there are still five years left, during which there won’t be any plowing or harvesting.

⁹ You are to labor and do all your work during six days, ¹⁰ but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor the alien who is within your gates— ¹¹ because the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, in six days, then he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.ה

¹² You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you are to refrain from work so that your ox and donkey may rest, and so the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed.

² For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest in dedication to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day is to be executed.

¹² “‘You are to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as the LORD your God commanded. ¹³ Six days you are to labor and do all your work, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a Sabbath for the LORD your God. You are not to do any work—neither you, your children, your male and female servants, your oxen and donkeys, nor any of your livestock—as well as any of the foreigners who live among you, so that your male and female servants may rest as you do. ¹⁵ You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, but the LORD your God brought you out from there with great power and a show of force. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.ה

⁴ and are to lead the heifer to a flowing stream in a valley that has never been tilled or planted. They are to break the heifer’s neck there.

¹² He will appoint his officers over thousands and officers over fifties—some will plow his fields, reap his harvest, and craft his war implements and equipment for his chariots.

²⁴ and oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder that workers will winnow with shovels and forks.

¹⁴ But the synagogue leader, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, told the crowd, “There are six days when work is to be done. So come on those days to be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”

⁵⁶ Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

¹⁶ You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field.

¹⁶ Annual Offerings“The LORD’s Passover is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first month. ¹⁷ You are to hold a festival on the fifteenth day of this month for seven days, during which time unleavened bread is to be eaten.”
¹⁸ A Week of Post-Passover Offerings“On the first day, you are to hold a sacred assembly. No servile work is to be done. ¹⁹ Bring an offering that is to be incinerated in the LORD’s presence, consisting of two young bulls, a ram, and seven one year old lambs, all without any defects, ²⁰ along with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil. Offer three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths of an ephah for the ram, ²¹ and one tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs. ²² Then present one goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you, ²³ apart from the burnt offering in the morning, which you are to continue offering. ²⁴ Do this every day for seven days, as an edible sacrifice to the LORD made by fire, a pleasing aroma. It is to be offered apart from the regular burnt offering and its corresponding drink offering. ²⁵ On the seventh day you are to hold another sacred assembly for your benefit, on which no servile work is to be done.”
²⁶ First Fruit Offerings“On the first day of your harvest season, you are to hold a sacred assembly when you present your first fruits during the Festival of Weeks. No servile work is to be done. ²⁷ You are to offer this burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, ²⁸ along with their corresponding grain offerings of fine flour mixed with olive oil; specifically, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths of an ephah for the one ram, ²⁹ one tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs, ³⁰ and one goat to make atonement for you. ³¹ Offer them in addition to the regular burnt offering, accompanied by its grain offering and its corresponding drink offerings.”

¹² Eight Days of Celebration: Day One“You are to hold a sacred assembly on the fifteenth day of the same seventh month. No servile work is to be done. You are to celebrate a festival to the LORD for seven days by ¹³ bringing these burnt offerings made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: Thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without any defects, ¹⁴ along with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil—three tenths for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams, ¹⁵ and one tenth for each of the fourteen lambs, ¹⁶ accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
¹⁷ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Two“On the second day, you are to present twelve young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ¹⁸ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ¹⁹ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
²⁰ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Three“On the third day, you are to present eleven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ²¹ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ²² and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
²³ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Four“On the fourth day, you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ²⁴ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ²⁵ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
²⁶ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Five“On the fifth day, you are to present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ²⁷ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ²⁸ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
²⁹ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Six“On the sixth day, you are to present eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ³⁰ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ³¹ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
³² Eight Days of Celebration: Day Seven“On the seventh day, you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects, ³³ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ³⁴ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with corresponding grain and drink offerings.”
³⁵ Eight Days of Celebration: Day Eight“On the eighth day, you are to call a sacred assembly. No servile work is to be done. ³⁶ You are to offer these burnt offerings by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, all without defects, ³⁷ along with corresponding grain and drink offerings for the bull, ram, and lambs, according to their number, based on the ordinances, ³⁸ and accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with corresponding grain and drink offerings.
³⁹ “Present these to the LORD at your appointed festival, in addition to your offerings in fulfillment of vows, free will offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, drink offerings, and peace offerings.”

¹⁰ Then observe the Festival of Weeks in the presence of the LORD your God by giving your tribute and the freewill offering of your hands in proportion to the manner in which the LORD your God blessed you. ¹¹ Rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God with your son, daughter, male and female slaves, the descendant of Levi who is in your city, the stranger, the orphan, and the widow among you, at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name. ¹² Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, so keep and observe these statutes.”
¹³ Celebrate the Festival of Tents“Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press. ¹⁴ Rejoice in your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the descendants of Levi, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities. ¹⁵ For seven days you are to celebrate in the presence of the LORD your God at the place where the LORD will choose; for the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in everything you do, and your joy will be complete.

² Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

¹ The Coming of the Holy SpiritWhen the day of Pentecost was being celebrated, all of them were together in one place.

²⁸ “Your name won’t be Jacob anymore,” the man replied, “but Israel, because you exerted yourself against both God and men, and you’ve emerged victorious.”

²⁰ set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-israel.

¹⁴ The Three Major Festivals“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival for me.

¹⁷ Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD.”

⁷ They will walk from strength to strength; each will appear before God in Zion.

⁵ As they set out on their journey, because the people who lived in the cities around them feared God, they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

²⁷ “I’ll go ahead of you and terrorize all the people to whom you are coming. I’ll confuse your enemies and make them turn their backs on you and run away. ²⁸ I’ll send hornets ahead of you and they’ll drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. ²⁹ I won’t drive them out before you in a single year, so that the land does not become desolate and so that wild animals do not overrun you. ³⁰ I’ll drive them out ahead of you little by little until you increase in numbers and possess the land.
³¹ “I’ll set your borders from the Reed Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the River, bringing the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you are to drive them out ahead of you.

¹¹ Obey what I am commanding you today and I’ll drive out from before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

²⁴ “You are not to defile yourselves by doing any of these things, since all of these nations that I’m casting out before you have defiled themselves this way.

¹ Instructions Regarding the Tribal Nations“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, he will drive out many nations before you: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations who are more numerous and stronger than you.

²⁰ When the LORD your God enlarges your territory—just as he told you—and you say ‘I want to eat meat’ since you desire to eat it, you may do so as much as you please.

⁸ Increase the Cities of Refuge“Now if the LORD enlarges your territories just as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land that he promised,

¹⁰ Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him, “…whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!” And God granted what he had requested.

¹⁰ Jehoshaphat’s Military and Economic StabilityBecause they were afraid of the LORD, none of the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah dared go to war against Jehoshaphat.

¹⁰ Haven’t you surrounded him with a fence on all sides, around his house, and around all that he owns? You have blessed everything he puts his hands on and you have increased his livestock in the land.

⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them and allotted their tribal inheritance, settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁸ You uprooted a vine from Egypt, and drove out nations to transplant it.

⁷ When a person’s ways please the LORD, even his enemies will be at peace with him.

¹⁰ For I am with you, and no one will lay a hand on you or harm you, because I have many people in this city.”

⁸ That very night they’re to eat the meat, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹⁰ Don’t leave any of it until morning, and whatever does remain of it until morning you are to burn in the fire.

²⁰ You are not to eat what is leavened. You are to eat unleavened bread in all your settlements.’”

¹⁸ Various Laws“You are not to offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, and you are not to let the fat portion of my sacrifice remain overnight until morning.

³⁴ If any of the flesh of the ordination ram or any of the bread is left until morning, you are to burn what is left with fire. Because it’s holy, what remains is not to be eaten.

¹⁵ As to the meat contained in his peace offerings, it is to be eaten on the day it is offered. Nothing of it is to remain until morning.”

¹² They are not to leave any of it to remain until morning nor are they to break any of its bones. They are to observe it according to all the statutes of the Passover.

³ You must not eat any yeast with it. Instead, for seven days eat bread without yeast—the bread of affliction—because you left the land of Egypt in haste. Remember the day you went out of the land of Egypt for the rest of your lives.

⁷ Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough, since you are to be free from yeast. For the Messiah, our Passover, has been sacrificed. ⁸ So let’s keep celebrating the festival, neither with old yeast nor with yeast that is evil and wicked, but with yeast-free bread that is both sincere and true.

¹⁹ “You are to bring the best of the first fruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.
“You are not to boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

²¹ “You must not eat any carcass. But you may give it to the alien in your cities so he may eat it or sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the LORD your God.
“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

² Gather all the first produce of the ground that you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is about to give you, place it in a basket, and bring it to the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.

¹⁰ Now, look—I brought the first produce of the land that you, LORD, have given me.’
Then set it in the presence of the LORD your God and worship him.

⁹ Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the first of all your produce, ¹⁰ so your barns will be filled with abundance, and your vats will burst open with new wine.

³³ But first be concerned about God’s kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

²⁰ But at this moment the Messiah stands risen from the dead, the first one offered in the harvest of those who have died.

¹⁸ In accordance with his will he made us his children by the word of truth, so that we might become the most important of his creatures.

¹⁴ Then the LORD told Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua: ‘I’ll certainly wipe out the memory of the Amalekites from under heaven.’”

⁴ So Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He got up early in the morning and built an altar with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

⁷ He took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, “We will put into practice and obey everything that the LORD has decreed.”

⁹ Moses Entrusts the Law to the Levitical PriestsThen Moses wrote down this Law and gave it to the Levitical priests who carry the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and to all of Israel’s leaders.

¹⁸ When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

¹ The Tablets of the Law ReplacedThe LORD told Moses, “Cut out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I’ll write on the tablets the words which were on the first tablets that you broke.

⁹ Then I went up to the mountain to receive the two stone Tablets of the Covenant that the LORD had established with you. I stayed on the mountain for 40 days and nights without eating food or drinking water.

¹⁸ I fell down in the LORD’s presence, just as I had the first 40 days and nights. I did not eat food or drink water because of your sin. You had sinned by committing this evil in the sight of the LORD, thereby provoking him to anger.

⁷ Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses’ face (because the glory was fading away from it),

¹⁵ When the Israelis saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?”, because they did not know what it was.
Moses told them, “It’s the food that the LORD has given you to eat.

¹⁵ Moses Destroys the Golden Calf and the Tablets of the LawThen Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two Tablets of the Testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides. They were written on one side and the other.

⁴ Now the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she replied, “The men really did come to me, but I didn’t know from where they came.

¹⁴ When the king of Ai saw what had happened, he and his army quickly got up early and went out to meet Israel in battle. He and all his people met at the place adjacent to the desert plain. But he didn’t know about the ambush that had been set for him on the other side of the city.

²⁰ When she cried out, “The Philistines are attacking you, Samson!” he woke from his sleep and told himself, “I’ll go out like I did at other times like this and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that the LORD had abandoned him.

² His appearance was changed in front of them, his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

⁶ (Peter didn’t know how to respond, because they were terrified.)

⁴⁰ Again he came back and found them asleep, because they could not keep their eyes open. They didn’t even know what they should say to him.

⁴⁹ He asked them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I had to be in my Father’s house?”

²⁹ While he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes turned dazzling white.

¹³ But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

¹⁵ Then everyone who was seated in the Council glared at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

⁹ So Peter went out and began to follow him, not realizing that what was being done by the angel was real; he thought he was seeing a vision.

⁵ Paul answered, “I didn’t realize, brothers, that he is the high priest. After all, it is written, ‘You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.’”

⁷ Now if the ministry of death that was inscribed in letters of stone came with such glory that the people of Israel could not gaze on Moses’ face (because the glory was fading away from it), ⁸ will not the Spirit’s ministry have even more glory? ⁹ For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory.

¹³ not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

¹⁶ In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun when it shines with full force.

¹ The Vision of the Powerful AngelThen I saw another powerful angel come down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, and there was a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like columns of fire.

⁸ I speak to him audibly and in visions, not in mysteries. If he can gaze at the image of the LORD, why aren’t you afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

³ and his clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone on earth could bleach them.

¹⁵ The whole crowd was very surprised to see Jesus and ran to welcome him.

⁸ When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus’ knees and said, “Leave me, Lord! I am a sinful man!”—

³ Joseph blurted out, “I’m Joseph! Is my father really alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, because they had become terrified to be in his presence.

¹⁵ He kissed all of his brothers and wept with them, too, and then his brothers were able to talk with him.

¹⁵ God also told Moses, “Tell the Israelis, ‘The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

¹ The Covenant is Sealed with BloodThe LORD told Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel, and worship at a distance. ² Only Moses is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach; the people are not to come up with him.”
³ Then Moses came and reported all the words of the LORD and all the statutes to the people, and they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has decreed.”

¹ Laws Concerning Servants“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them.

³ Then Moses came and reported all the words of the LORD and all the statutes to the people, and they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has decreed.”

⁴⁰ Therefore, remember to observe all my commands and to be holy in the presence of your God.

¹⁴ “As the LORD lives,” Micaiah replied, “I’ll say what my God tells me to say.”

²³ For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you—how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,

³ For I passed on to you the most important points that I received: The Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

⁴ For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.

¹³ not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away. ¹⁴ However, their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil is still there when they read the old covenant. Only in union with the Messiah is that veil removed. ¹⁵ Yet even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. ¹⁶ But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. ¹⁷ Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Lord’s Spirit is, there is freedom. ¹⁸ As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord’s Spirit.

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
⁵ For we do not preach ourselves, but rather Jesus the Messiah as Lord, and ourselves as merely your servants for Jesus’ sake. ⁶ For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus the Messiah.

¹⁶ But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

¹⁶ So let us keep on coming boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

¹⁹ How We Should LiveTherefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰ the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), ²¹ and since we have a great high priest over the household of God, ²² let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.

²⁹ Moses’ Face ShinesWhen Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he had the two tablets in his hand, and he did not know that the skin of his face was ablaze with light because he had been speaking with God. ³⁰ Aaron and all the Israelis saw Moses and immediately noticed that the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him.

¹ The Wise Use of Power Who is really wise? Who knows how to interpret this saying: “A person’s wisdom improves his appearance, softening a harsh countenance.”

³ Those who manifest wisdom will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars for ever and ever.

¹⁶ In the same way, let your light shine before people in such a way that they will see your good actions and glorify your Father in heaven.”

⁴³ Then the righteous will shine like the sun in their Father’s kingdom. Let the person who has ears listen!”

³⁵ That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

¹⁵ so that you may be blameless and innocent, God’s children without any faults among a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world