Deuteronomy 4 Cross References - Leeser

¹ And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances which I teach you to do; in order that ye may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, giveth unto you. ² Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, nor shall ye diminish aught from it; that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. ³ Your own eyes have seen that which the Lord hath done because of Baal-peor; for every man that followed Baal-peor, him the Lord thy God hath destroyed from the midst of thee. ⁴ But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God, are alive, every one of you, this day. ⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, just as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye may do so in the midst of the land whither ye go to take possession of it. ⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation. ⁷ For what great nation is there that hath gods so nigh unto it, as is the Lord our God at all times that we call upon him. ⁸ And what great nation is there that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as is all this law, which I lay before you this day? ⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and guard thy soul diligently, that thou do not forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons’ sons; ¹⁰ The day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God at Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Assemble for me the people, and I will cause them to hear my words, which they shall learn, to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and which they shall teach their children. ¹¹ And ye came near and stood at the foot of the mount; and the mount was burning with fire unto the midst of the heaven, from amidst darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. ¹² And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; the sound of words ye heard, but any similitude ye saw not: there was nothing but a sound. ¹³ And he told unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. ¹⁴ And me the Lord commanded at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. ¹⁵ Take ye therefore good heed of your souls; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire: ¹⁶ That ye become not corrupt, and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any idol-figure, the likeness of a male or of a female, ¹⁷ The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air of heaven, ¹⁸ The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; ¹⁹ And that thou lift not up thy eyes unto the heavens, and thou see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be misled to bow down to them, and to serve them, those which the Lord thy God hath assigned unto all nations under the whole heaven. ²⁰ But you did the Lord take, and he brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto you a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. ²¹ Farthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and he swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the Lord thy God giveth unto thee for an inheritance; ²² For I must die in this land; I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye will go over and take possession of this good land. ²³ Take heed unto yourselves, that ye do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. ²⁴ For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire; yea, a watchful God. ²⁵ When thou begettest children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and ye become corrupt, and make a graven image, the likeness of any thing, and do the evil in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger: ²⁶ I call this day the heavens and the earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not remain many days upon it, but ye shall surely be destroyed. ²⁷ And the Lord will scatter you among the nations, and ye will be left few in number among the nations, whither the Lord will lead you. ²⁸ And ye will serve there gods, the work of man’s hands, wood and stone, which neither can see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. ²⁹ But thou wilt seek from there the Lord thy God, and wilt find him, if thou apply to him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. ³⁰ When thou art in tribulation, and all these things have overtaken thee, in the latter end of days: then wilt thou return to the Lord thy God, and be obedient unto his voice. ³¹ For a merciful God is the Lord thy God; he will not forsake thee, nor destroy thee; and he will not forget the covenant of thy fathers which he hath sworn unto them. ³² For do but ask of former days, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of the heavens unto the other end of the heavens, whether there hath been the like of this great thing, or whether the like of it hath been heard. ³³ Hath ever a people heard the voice of a god, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and remained alive? ³⁴ Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes. ³⁵ Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know, that the Eternal is the God: there is none else besides him. ³⁶ Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice, to correct thee: and upon the earth he caused thee to see his great fire; and his words didst thou hear out of the midst of the fire. ³⁷ And therefore, because he loved thy fathers, he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his presence with his mighty power out of Egypt; ³⁸ To drive out nations greater and mightier than thou art, from before thee, to bring thee in, to give unto thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. ³⁹ Know therefore this day, and reflect in thy heart, that the Eternal is the God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. ⁴⁰ And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee; and that thou mayest live many days upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for all times. ⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun; ⁴² That thither might flee the manslayer, who should kill his neighbor unawares, when he had not been an enemy to him in times past; and that he should flee unto one of these cities and live. ⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gil’ad for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Menassites. ⁴⁴ And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel: ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ On this side of the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Beth-peor, in the land of Sichon the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt; ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land, and of the land of ‘Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Emorites, who were on this side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun; ⁴⁸ From ‘Aro’er, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Chermon, ⁴⁹ And all the plain on this side of the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the declivities of Pisgah.

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. ¹⁷ And God set them in the expansion of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸ And to rule by day and by night, and to divide between the light and the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

²⁷ And God created man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

¹ Thus were finished the heavens and the earth, and all their host.

¹⁹ For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, that they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; in order that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken concerning him.

¹ And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

⁹ And he said unto his people: Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we.

¹⁰ And now then go, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, and thou shalt bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

¹⁷ And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Emorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. ¹⁸ And they will hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Everlasting One, the God of the Hebrews hath met with us; and now let us go, we beseech thee, a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. ¹⁹ But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, unless it happen through a mighty hand. ²⁰ And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof; and after that he will let you go.

⁶ Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Eternal, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will release you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:

³ And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses; ²¹ And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

⁷ And the servants of Pharaoh said unto him, How long shall this man be unto us for a snare? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

³⁰ And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not some one dead. ³¹ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Eternal, as ye have spoken. ³² Also your flocks and your herds take, as ye have spoken, and be gone; and bless me also. ³³ And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to make haste to send them away out of the land; for they said, We are all dying.

³ And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, on which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from here: and no leavened bread shall be eaten.

⁸ And thou shalt tell thy son on that day, saying, This is done for the sake of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. ⁹ And it shall be unto thee for a sign upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes, in order that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee forth out of Egypt.

⁹ And it shall be unto thee for a sign upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thy eyes, in order that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee forth out of Egypt.

¹⁴ And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery;

¹⁴ And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; ¹⁵ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh obstinately refused to let us go, that the Lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast; therefore do I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my children must I redeem. ¹⁶ And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for frontlets between thy eyes; that by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.

¹¹ Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the mighty? who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

⁸ And Moses told his father-in-law all which the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on account of Israel, all the hardship which had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine:

⁵ Now therefore, if you will truly obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be unto me a peculiar treasure above all nations; for all the earth is mine: ⁶ And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation; these are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

⁹ And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, I will come unto thee in a thick cloud, for the sake that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and that also in thee they shall believe for ever; and Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud was upon the mount, and the voice of the cornet was exceedingly loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud was upon the mount, and the voice of the cornet was exceedingly loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled. ¹⁷ And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they placed themselves at the foot of the mount. ¹⁸ And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai smoked in every part, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. ¹⁹ And the voice of the cornet went on, and waxed louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him with a loud voice.

¹⁹ And the voice of the cornet went on, and waxed louder and louder; Moses spoke, and God answered him with a loud voice.

⁴ Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

⁵ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the cornet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed trembling, and stood afar off.

¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the cornet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed trembling, and stood afar off.

¹⁸ And all the people perceived the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the cornet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed trembling, and stood afar off. ¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

¹⁹ And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. ²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, Fear not; for in order to prove you, did God come, and in order that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, Fear not; for in order to prove you, did God come, and in order that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. ²² And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that from heaven I have spoken with you.

²² And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that from heaven I have spoken with you.

²⁷ My terror will I send before thee, and will bring in confusion all the people to which thou shalt come; and I will make all thy enemies turn their back unto thee. ²⁸ And I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

¹¹ And against the nobles of the children of Israel he stretched not forth his hand; and they saw the glory of God, and did eat and drink. ¹² And the Lord said unto Moses, come up to me to the mount, and remain there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, with the law, and the commandment which I have written, to teach them.

¹⁶ And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and he called unto Moses on the seventh day out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷ And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the children of Israel.

¹⁷ And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mount, before the eyes of the children of Israel. ¹⁸ And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and ascended the mount; and Moses was on the mount forty days and forty nights.

¹⁸ And he gave unto Moses, when he had finished speaking with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, inscribed with the finger of God.

⁷ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, hath become corrupt:

¹⁴ And he said, My presence shall go in advance, and I will give thee rest.

²⁰ And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for no man can see me, and live.

⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord is the immutable, eternal Being, the omnipotent God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in beneficence and truth; ⁷ Keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

¹⁴ For thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord whose name is Watchful, is a watchful God.

²⁸ And he remained there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink; and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

⁵ And ye shall keep my statutes, and my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

²⁸ That the land may not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it hath vomited out the nations that were before you.

³⁷ Ye shall therefore observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am the Lord.

⁸ And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord who sanctify you.

³¹ And ye shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the Lord.

¹ Ye shall not make yourselves any idols, and a graven image, or a standing image shall ye not rear up unto you, and any carved stone shall you not place in your land, to bow down upon it; for I am the Eternal your God. ² My sabbaths shall ye keep, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am the Lord. ³ If in my statutes ye walk, and if my commandments ye keep, and do them: ⁴ Then will I give you rains in their due season, and the earth shall yield her products, and the tree of the field shall yield its fruit. ⁵ And the threshing shall reach with you unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto sowing-time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and ye shall dwell in safety in your land. ⁶ And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, with none to make you afraid; and I will remove evil beasts out of the land, and the sword shall not pass through your land. ⁷ And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. ⁸ And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. ⁹ And I will turn myself unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and I will establish my covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ye shall eat very old store, and the old shall ye remove away because of the new. ¹¹ And I will set my dwelling among you; and my soul shall not loath you. ¹² And I will walk among you, and I will be to you a God, and ye shall be to me a people. ¹³ I am the Eternal your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bond-men; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and caused you to walk upright.

³¹ And I will render your cities a waste, and I will make desolate your sanctuaries, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors. ³² And I will surely make desolate the land: and your enemies who dwell therein shall be astonished at it. ³³ And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out after you the sword; and your land shall be a desolate wild, and your cities shall be a waste.

³³ And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out after you the sword; and your land shall be a desolate wild, and your cities shall be a waste. ³⁴ Then shall the land satisfy its sabbaths, all the days of its desolation, when ye are in the land of your enemies: then shall the land rest, and satisfy its sabbaths. ³⁵ All the days of its desolation shall it rest, the time which it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

³⁹ And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in the land of your enemies; and also through the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them. ⁴⁰ And they shall then confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, that through their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that because they had walked contrary unto me: ⁴¹ I also had to walk contrary unto them, and to bring them into the land of their enemies; and then shall their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and then shall they satisfy their iniquity. ⁴² And I will then remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and the land will I remember.

⁴² And I will then remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and the land will I remember.

⁴⁵ But I will remember for their sakes the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, that I might be unto them a God: I am the Lord.

³⁴ These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children on mount Sinai.

⁸ Mouth to mouth do I speak with him, even evidently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord doth he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

¹⁸ The Eternal is long-suffering, and abundant in beneficence, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

¹² And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye have not confided in me, to sanctify me before the eyes of the children of Israel: therefore shall ye not bring this congregation into the land which I have given to them.

²¹ And Israel sent messengers unto Sichon the king of the Emorites, saying, ²² Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink the water of a well: by the king’s highway will we go along, until we have passed thy border. ²³ But Sichon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; and Sichon assembled all his people together; and went out against Israel into the wilderness; and he came to Yahaz, and fought against Israel. ²⁴ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from Arnon unto Yabbok, even unto the children of ‘Ammon; for the border of the children of ‘Ammon was strong. ²⁵ And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Emorites, in Cheshbon, and in all the villages thereof. ²⁶ For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon the king of the Emorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, up to the Arnon. ²⁷ Therefore said the poets, Come into Cheshbon, let the city of Sichon be built and established. ²⁸ For a fire is gone out of Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon: it hath consumed ‘Ar-Moab, the men of the high places of the Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to thee, Moab! thou art lost, O people of Kemosh: he hath suffered his sons to become fugitives, and his daughters to go into captivity, unto the king of the Emorites, Sichon. ³⁰ We have thrown them down; lost is Cheshbon even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste all up to Nophach, which reacheth unto Medeba. ³¹ Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Emorites. ³² And Moses sent to spy out Ya’zer, and they captured the villages thereof, and drove out the Emorites that were there. ³³ And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and ‘Og, the king of Bashan, went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. ³⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon. ³⁵ And they smote him and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left unto him that escaped; and they took possession of his land.

⁹ For from the top of rocks I see him, and from hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and among the nations it shall not be reckoned.

²¹ He hath not beheld any wrong in Jacob, nor hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glory of the king dwelleth among him.

²⁰ And he looked on Amalek, and he took up his parable, and said, The first of nations is Amalek; but his latter end shall be destruction for ever.

¹ And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit incest with the daughters of Moab. ² And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed themselves down to their gods. ³ And Israel joined themselves unto Baal-peor; and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. ⁴ And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and cause them to hang the guilty up before the Lord, in the face of the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel. ⁵ And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have been joined unto Baal-peor. ⁶ And, behold, one of the children of Israel came, and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman, before the eyes of Moses, and before the eyes of all the congregation of the children of Israel, and these were weeping by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. ⁷ And when Phinehas, the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; ⁸ And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body: and the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. ⁹ And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

⁶⁴ And among these there was not one man of those whom Moses and Aaron the priest had numbered, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶ Behold, these chiefly were the cause unto the children of Israel, through the counsel of Bil’am, to commit the gross trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor; through which there was the plague among the congregation of the Lord.

¹⁹ For we will not take possession with them on the other side of the Jordan, and farther on: when our inheritance hath come to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

⁶ And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint that the manslayer may flee thither; and in addition to them shall ye give forty and two cities.

¹¹ Then ye shall appoint unto yourselves proper cities, that they be cities of refuge for you; and thither shall flee the manslayer who killeth any person at unawares. ¹² And these cities shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the congregation for trial.

¹⁴ Three of these cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and the three other cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan: cities of refuge shall they be. ¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for a refuge: that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares.

¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for a refuge: that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares. ¹⁶ And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he have smitten him with a stone which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he have smitten him with an article of wood, which one can take in the hand, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of the blood himself shall slay the murderer; when he meeteth him, shall he slay him. ²⁰ And if he push against him out of hatred, or he have hurled at him any thing by lying in wait, that he die; ²¹ Or if in enmity he have smitten him with his hand, that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the avenger of the blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth with him. ²² But if he have pushed against him accidentally without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without lying in wait, ²³ Or with any stone wherewith a man may die, without seeing him, and he have let it fall upon him that he died; whereas he was not his enemy, and did not seek his harm: ²⁴ Then shall the congregation judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these institutions; ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of the blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if the manslayer should at any time pass the boundary of the city of his refuge, whither he may have fled; ²⁷ And the avenger of the blood should find him beyond the boundary of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of the blood should kill the manslayer: he shall not be guilty of blood; ²⁸ Because in the city of his refuge shall be remain until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the high-priest the manslayer may return unto the land of his possession.

¹³ These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel, in the plain of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

⁴ After he had smitten Sichon the king of the Emorites, who dwelt in Cheshbon, and ‘Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt at ‘Ashtaroth in Edre’i. ⁵ On this side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to explain this law, saying,

⁵ On this side of the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to explain this law, saying,

³⁷ also with me was the Lord angry for your sakes, saying, also thou shalt not go in thither.

³⁰ But Sichon, the king of Cheshbon, would not suffer our passing by him; for the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and had made obstinate his heart, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as hath happened this day. ³¹ And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give up Sichon and his land before thee: begin to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land.

³¹ And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give up Sichon and his land before thee: begin to drive him out, that thou mayest inherit his land. ³² And Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Yahaz. ³³ And the Lord our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. ³⁴ And we conquered all his cities at that time, and devoted every inhabited city, and the women, and the little ones; we left none that escaped. ³⁵ Only the cattle we took as booty unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ‘Aro’er, which is by the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is in the brook, even unto Gil’ad, there was not one city which was too strong for us; the whole did the Lord our God give up before us.

³⁶ From ‘Aro’er, which is by the bank of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is in the brook, even unto Gil’ad, there was not one city which was too strong for us; the whole did the Lord our God give up before us.

¹ And we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and ‘Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Edre’i. ² And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not; for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do unto him as thou hast done unto Sichon, the king of the Emorites, who dwelt at Cheshbon. ³ And the Lord our God gave into our hands also ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him who escaped. ⁴ And we conquered all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan. ⁵ all these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns, which were a great many. ⁶ And we devoted them, as we had done unto Sichon the king of Cheshbon, devoting every inhabited city, the women, and the little ones. ⁷ But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took as booty to ourselves. ⁸ And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emorites the land which is on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Chermon;

⁸ And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Emorites the land which is on this side of the Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Chermon; ⁹ (The Sidonians call Chermon Siryon; and the Emorites call it Senir;)

⁹ (The Sidonians call Chermon Siryon; and the Emorites call it Senir;) ¹⁰ All the cities of the plain, and all Gil’ad, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan. ¹¹ For only ‘Og the king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; lo! it is in Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon: nine cubits is its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the arm of a man. ¹² And of this land, of which we took possession at that time, from ‘Aro’er, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gil’ad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

¹² And of this land, of which we took possession at that time, from ‘Aro’er, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gil’ad, and the cities thereof, I gave unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³ And the rest of Gil’ad, and all Bashan, the kingdom of ‘Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, this is called the land of Rephaim. ¹⁴ Yair the son of Menasseh took all the region of Argob up to the border of the Geshurites and the Ma-’achathites; and he called them the land of Bashan, after his own name, the villages of Yair, unto this day.

¹⁷ The plain also, and the Jordan, and the adjoining land, from Kinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, under the declivities of Pisgah, eastward.

²⁵ Let me go over, I pray thee, that I may see the good land which is on the other side of the Jordan, this goodly mountain, and the Lebanon. ²⁶ But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and he would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; do not continue to speak unto me any more of this matter. ²⁷ Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thy eyes, westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thy eyes; for thou shalt not pass over this Jordan.

²⁹ And we abode in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

¹ And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances which I teach you to do; in order that ye may live, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, giveth unto you.

⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation.

⁸ And what great nation is there that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as is all this law, which I lay before you this day?

⁸ And what great nation is there that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as is all this law, which I lay before you this day? ⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and guard thy soul diligently, that thou do not forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons’ sons;

⁹ Only take heed to thyself, and guard thy soul diligently, that thou do not forget the things which thy eyes have seen, and that they depart not from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons’ sons;

¹² And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire; the sound of words ye heard, but any similitude ye saw not: there was nothing but a sound.

¹⁵ Take ye therefore good heed of your souls; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire:

¹⁵ Take ye therefore good heed of your souls; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire: ¹⁶ That ye become not corrupt, and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any idol-figure, the likeness of a male or of a female,

¹⁶ That ye become not corrupt, and make yourselves a graven image, the similitude of any idol-figure, the likeness of a male or of a female,

²³ Take heed unto yourselves, that ye do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. ²⁴ For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire; yea, a watchful God. ²⁵ When thou begettest children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and ye become corrupt, and make a graven image, the likeness of any thing, and do the evil in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:

²⁵ When thou begettest children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and ye become corrupt, and make a graven image, the likeness of any thing, and do the evil in the eyes of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger: ²⁶ I call this day the heavens and the earth to witness against you, that ye shall soon perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not remain many days upon it, but ye shall surely be destroyed.

³³ Hath ever a people heard the voice of a god, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and remained alive? ³⁴ Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes. ³⁵ Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know, that the Eternal is the God: there is none else besides him. ³⁶ Out of the heavens he caused thee to hear his voice, to correct thee: and upon the earth he caused thee to see his great fire; and his words didst thou hear out of the midst of the fire.

³⁹ Know therefore this day, and reflect in thy heart, that the Eternal is the God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land, and of the land of ‘Og the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Emorites, who were on this side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun;

¹ And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and that ye may observe to do them.

¹ And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and that ye may observe to do them. ² The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

² The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ³ Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, we who are here all of us alive this day. ⁴ Face to face did the Lord speak with you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire,

⁴ Face to face did the Lord speak with you on the mount, out of the midst of the fire, ⁵ (I was standing between the Lord and between you at that time, to announce to you the word of the Lord; for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and ye went not up into the mount;) saying, ⁶ I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. ⁷ Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁸ Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, any likeness of any thing that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

⁸ Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image, any likeness of any thing that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: ⁹ Thou shalt not bow thyself down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

⁹ Thou shalt not bow thyself down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me, ¹⁰ And showing kindness unto the thousandth generation of them that love me, and keep my commandments. ¹¹ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. ¹² Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³ Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; ¹⁴ But the seventh day is the sabbath in honor of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: in order that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵ And thou shalt remember that thou hast been a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore hath the Lord thy God commanded thee to observe the sabbath-day.

¹⁵ And thou shalt remember that thou hast been a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore hath the Lord thy God commanded thee to observe the sabbath-day. ¹⁶ Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: in order that thy days may be prolonged, and in order that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

¹⁶ Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee: in order that thy days may be prolonged, and in order that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not kill. ¹⁸ (5:17A) Neither shalt thou commit adultery. ¹⁹ (5:17B) Neither shalt thou steal. ²⁰ (5:17C) Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. ^{21 (5:18)} Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor’s wife. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor’s house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s. ^{22 (5:19)} These words did the Lord speak unto all your assembly on the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, but he did so no more; and he wrote them on two tables of stone, and he gave them unto me. ^{23 (5:20)} And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mount was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; ^{24 (5:21)} And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath caused us to see his glory and his greatness, and his voice have we heard out of the midst of the fire: this day have we seen that God can speak with man, who nevertheless may live.

^{26 (5:23)} For where is there any flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, like us, and hath remained alive?

^{29 (5:26)} Who would grant that this their heart might remain in them, to fear me, and to keep all my commandments at all times; in order that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

^{33 (5:30)} altogether in the way, which the Lord your God hath commanded you, shall ye walk; in order that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may remain many days in the land which ye will possess.

^{33 (5:30)} altogether in the way, which the Lord your God hath commanded you, shall ye walk; in order that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may remain many days in the land which ye will possess.

³ Hear, therefore, O Israel, and observe to do them; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as the Lord the God of thy fathers hath spoken to thee, in the land flowing with milk and honey.

⁷ And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and thou shalt speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

¹² Then beware that thou do not forget the Lord, who hath brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

¹⁵ For the Lord thy God is a watchful God among you: so that the anger of the Lord thy God may not be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

¹⁷ Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee. ¹⁸ And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the eyes of the Lord; in order that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and take possession of the good land which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers,

²⁰ When thy son should ask thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? ²¹ Then shalt thou say unto thy son, We were bondmen unto Pharaoh in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

¹ When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater in number and mightier than thou;

⁷ Not because ye are more in number than all the nations, did the Lord desire you and make choice of you; for ye are the fewest of all the nations; ⁸ But on account of the love of the Lord for you, and because he keepeth the oath which he hath sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond-men, out of the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt. ⁹ Know then that the Eternal thy God, is the God, the faithful God, who keepeth the covenant and the mercy with those that love him and with those that keep his commandments to the thousandth generation;

¹⁹ The great proofs which thy eyes have seen, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: in this wise will the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.

¹ All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do; in order that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers.

¹⁸ But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth; in order that he might fulfill his covenant which he hath sworn unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

¹ Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass this day over the Jordan, to go in to drive out nations greater and mightier than thou, to conquer cities great and fortified up to heaven, ² A people great and tall, the children of the ‘Anakim, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of ‘Anak! ³ Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God it is who goeth over before thee, he is a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before thy face; and thou wilt drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath spoken unto thee.

³ Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God it is who goeth over before thee, he is a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before thy face; and thou wilt drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath spoken unto thee. ⁴ Thou must not say in thy heart, when the Lord thy God doth cast them out from before thee, as followeth, For my righteousness hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land; and that for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. ⁵ Not for thy righteousness, nor for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations doth the Lord thy God drive them out from before thee, and in order that he may fulfill the word which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

⁵ Not for thy righteousness, nor for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations doth the Lord thy God drive them out from before thee, and in order that he may fulfill the word which the Lord hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

⁹ When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you, and I abode on the mount forty days and forty nights, bread did I not eat, and water did I not drink. ¹⁰ And the Lord gave unto me the two tables of stone inscribed by the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord had spoken with you on the mount out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.

¹⁰ And the Lord gave unto me the two tables of stone inscribed by the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord had spoken with you on the mount out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. ¹¹ And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave unto me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

²⁶ And I prayed unto the Lord, and said, O Lord Eternal, destroy not thy people and thy heritage, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

²⁹ Whereas they are thy people and thy heritage, whom thou hast brought out by thy mighty power and by thy outstretched arm.

¹ At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount; and make thyself an ark of wood. ² And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou hast broken; and thou shalt put them in the ark. ³ And I made an ark of shittim-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and I went up into the mount, with the two tables in my hand. ⁴ And he wrote on the tables, like the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord had spoken unto you on the mount out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them unto me. ⁵ And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and I put the tables in the ark which I had made; and they have remained there, as the Lord hath commanded me.

¹² And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, ¹³ To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy own good?

¹⁵ Yet only in thy fathers had the Lord delight, to love them; he chose, therefore, their seed after them, namely you, from all the nations, as it is this day.

²⁰ The Lord thy God shalt thou fear: him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.

¹ Thou shalt therefore love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, all the days.

¹⁹ And ye shall teach them to your children, to speak of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

²³ Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall supplant nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

³² And ye shall then observe to do all the statutes and ordinances which I set before you this day.

²⁵ Thou shalt not eat it; in order that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou wilt do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁸ Observe and hear all these words which I command thee; in order that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou wilt do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

^{32 (13:1)} What thing soever I command you, even that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, and thou shalt not diminish therefrom.

^{4 (13:5)} After the Lord your God shall ye walk, and him shall ye fear, and his commandments shall ye keep, and his voice shall ye obey, and him shall ye serve, and unto him shall ye cleave.

²³ And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he will choose to cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thy oil, and the first-born of thy herds and of thy flocks; in order that thou may learn to fear the Lord thy God all the days.

²⁰ Justice, only justice shalt thou pursue; in order that thou mayest live, and retain possession of the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

³ And he hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have prohibited;

¹⁸ And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests, the Levites; ¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: in order that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them.

¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: in order that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them.

¹ When the Lord thy God shall have cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou hast driven them out, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses: ² Then shalt thou set apart three cities for thyself, in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. ³ Thou shalt put in order for thyself the way to them, and divide into three parts the territory of thy land, which the Lord thy God will give thee to inherit, and it shall serve, that every man-slayer may flee thither. ⁴ And this is the case of the man-slayer, who shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso smiteth his neighbor without knowledge, when he hath not been an enemy to him in time past; ⁵ And he that goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the helve, and striketh his neighbor, that he die: this one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live; ⁶ That the avenger of the blood pursue not the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him dead; whereas he deserveth not a judgment of death, inasmuch as he was not an enemy to him in time past. ⁷ Therefore do I command thee, saying, Three cities shalt thou set apart for thyself. ⁸ And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy boundary, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he hath spoken to give unto thy fathers; ⁹ Because thou dost keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk in his ways all the days: then shalt thou add for thyself three cities more, unto these three; ¹⁰ That innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood-guiltiness be brought upon thee.

⁷ But thou shalt surely let the mother go, and the young thou mayest take to thyself; in order that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live many days.

⁸ And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;

³ And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, so soon as thou art passed over; in order that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey; as the Lord, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee.

⁸ And thou shalt write upon the statues all the words of this law, very plainly. ⁹ And Moses with the priests, the Levites, spoke unto all Israel, saying, Be attentive, and hearken, O Israel! this day art thou become a people unto the Lord thy God.

²⁶ Cursed be he that executeth not the words of this law to do them; and all the people shall say, Amen.

¹ And it shall come to pass, if thou wilt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee highest above all nations of the earth. ² And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee; because thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flocks. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-through. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be at thy coming in, and blessed shalt thou be at thy going out. ⁷ The Lord will cause thy enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: on one way shall they come out against thee, and on seven ways shall they flee before thee. ⁸ The Lord will command upon thee the blessing in thy storehouse, and in all the acquisitions of thy hand; and he trill bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ⁹ The Lord will raise thee up unto himself as a holy people, as he hath sworn unto thee; if thou wilt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the nations of the earth shall see, that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And the Lord will make thee pre-eminent for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers to give unto thee. ¹² The Lord will open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. ¹³ And the Lord will constitute thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt only be uppermost, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou wilt hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day to observe and to do; ¹⁴ And thou wilt not go aside from all the words which I command thee this day, to the right, or to the left, to go after strange gods, to serve them.

³⁶ The Lord will drive thee, and thy king whom thou wilt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and thou wilt serve there strange gods, of wood and stone.

⁶² And ye shall be left but few in number, instead of that ye once were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that, as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so will the Lord rejoice over you to bring you to nought, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it. ⁶⁴ And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

⁶⁴ And the Lord will scatter thee among all the nations, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there wilt thou serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

^{3 (29:2)} The great proofs which thy eyes have seen, those great signs, and miracles:

^{7 (29:6)} And when ye came unto this place, Sichon the king of Cheshbon, and ‘Og the king of Bashan went out against us unto battle, and we smote them: ^{8 (29:7)} And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Menassites.

^{20 (29:19)} The Lord will not pardon him; but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and there shall rest upon him all the curse that is written in this book; and the Lord will blot out his name from under the heavens.

^{25 (29:24)} Then shall men say, Because they had forsaken the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;

^{28 (29:27)} And the Lord plucked them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and he cast them into another land, as it is this day. ^{29 (29:28)} The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are publicly known belong unto us and to our children for ever, to do all the words of this law.

¹ And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou reflectest on them in thy heart among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee, ² So that thou returnest unto the Lord thy God, and hearkenest unto his voice according to all that I command this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul: ³ That then the Lord thy God will restore thy captivity, and have mercy upon thee; and he will again gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. ⁴ If thy outcasts be at the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from there will he fetch thee:

¹⁰ If thou wilt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou wilt return unto the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

¹⁶ In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances; that thou mayest live and multiply; and that the Lord thy God may bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

¹⁸ I announce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not remain many days upon the land, whither thou passest over the Jordan to go thither to possess it. ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed;

¹⁹ I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore choose thou life, in order that thou mayest live, both thou and thy seed; ²⁰ To love the Lord thy God, to hearken to his voice, and to cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days; that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord swore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them.

² And he said unto them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I am not able any more to go out and come in; for the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

⁶ Be strong and of a good courage, be not afraid and be not dismayed on account of them; for the Lord thy God it is that goeth with thee; he will not let thee fail, nor forsake thee.

⁸ And the Lord it is that goeth before thee; he will be with thee, he will not let thee fail, nor will he forsake thee: fear not, nor be thou discouraged.

¹² Assemble the people together, the men, and the women, and the children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates; in order that they may hear, and in order that they may learn how they are to fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law; ¹³ And that their children, who have not yet any knowledge, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, all the days which ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

¹⁶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers: and then will this people rise up, and go astray after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be in the midst of them, and they will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. ¹⁷ And my anger shall be kindled against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be given to be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall overtake them; and they will say on that day, Is it not, because my God is not in the midst of me, that these evils have overtaken me?

¹⁷ And my anger shall be kindled against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be given to be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall overtake them; and they will say on that day, Is it not, because my God is not in the midst of me, that these evils have overtaken me? ¹⁸ But I will assuredly hide my face on that day on account of all the evils which they have wrought, because they have turned unto other gods. ¹⁹ Now therefore write ye for yourselves this song, and teach it the children of Israel, put it in their mouth; in order that this song may become for me a witness against the children of Israel. ²⁰ For when I shall have brought them into the land which I have sworn unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat: then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

²⁸ Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers; and I will speak in their ears these words, and I will call as witnesses against them the heavens and the earth. ²⁹ For I know that after my death ye will to a surety become corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and that the evil will befall you in the latter days, when ye do the evil in the eyes of the Lord, to incense him through the work of your hands.

¹ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

⁷ Remember the days of old, consider the years of former generations; ask thy father, and he will tell thee; thy elders, and they will say it unto thee:

⁹ For the portion of the Lord is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

¹⁶ They incensed him with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

²¹ They have moved me to wrath with things that are not god; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I too will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a worthless nation. ²² For a fire is kindled in my anger, and it burneth unto the lowest deep; and it consumeth the earth with her products, and it setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains. ²³ I will heap upon them miseries; all my arrows will I spend upon them.

²⁹ If they were but wise, they would understand this, they would consider their latter end!

³⁹ See now that I, even I, am he, ard there is no god with me: I alone kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and no one can deliver out of my hand.

⁴⁶ He said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify against you this day, so that ye may command them your children, to observe to do all the words of this law.

⁴ “The law which Moses commanded us, is the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.”

¹ And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mount of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is before Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land from Gil’ad unto Dan,

¹² And in respect to all that mighty hand, and in all the great terrific deeds which Moses displayed before the eyes of all Israel.

⁵ No man shall be able to stand up before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not let thee fail, nor forsake thee.

⁷ Only be thou strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left; in order that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

¹⁸ Every man that doth rebel against thy order, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou mayest command him, shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

¹¹ And when we heard this, our heart melted, and there remained not any more courage in any man, because of you; for the Lord your God is alone God in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath.

¹⁰ And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living God is in the midst of you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Emorites, and the Jebusites.

⁶ In order that this may be a sign among you, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? ⁷ That ye shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

²¹ And he said unto the children of Israel, thus, When your children shall ask in time to come their fathers, saying, What mean these stones?

¹² Then spoke Joshua to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered up the Emorites before the children of Israel, and he said before the eyes of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gib’on; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon. ¹³ And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Yashar? And the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens, and hastened not to go down about a whole day.

²⁰ And Beth-pe’or, and the declivities of Pisgah, and Beth-hayeshimoth,

²⁴ And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the children of Gad according to their families; ²⁵ And their territory was Ya’zer, and all the cities of Gil’ad, and half the land of the children of ‘Ammon, up to ‘Aro’er that is before Rabbah; ²⁶ And from Cheshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Machanayim up to the border of Debir; ²⁷ And in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sichon the king of Cheshbon, the Jordan and its bordering territory, up to the edge of the sea of Kinnereth on the other side of the Jordan eastward. ²⁸ This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities and their villages. ²⁹ And Moses gave unto the half tribe of Menasseh; and it belonged to the half tribe of the children of Menasseh after their families; ³⁰ And their territory was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of ‘Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages of Ya’ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities; ³¹ And half Gil’ad and ‘Ashtaroth, and Edre’i, the cities of the kingdom of ‘Og in Bashan, belonged unto the children of Machir the son of Menasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir after their families. ³² These are they to whom Moses did distribute an inheritance in the plans of Moab, on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. ³³ But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord the God of Israel is himself their inheritance, as he hath spoken unto them.

² speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for yourselves the cities of refuge, whereof I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses; ³ That thither may flee the manslayer that killeth any person unawares, without knowledge; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of the blood. ⁴ And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and he shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and speak in the ears of the elders of that city his words; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. ⁵ And if the avenger of the blood should pursue after him, then shall they not deliver the manslayer up into his hand; because without knowledge did he smite his neighbor, and he was not an enemy to him in time past. ⁶ And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall have stood before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high-priest that may be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come unto his own house, unto the city whence he hath fled. ⁷ And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kiryath-arba’, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. ⁸ And on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho eastward, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness in the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gil’ad from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Menasseh.

⁸ And on the other side of the Jordan by Jericho eastward, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness in the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gil’ad from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Menasseh. ⁹ These were the cities assigned for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that thither might flee whosoever killeth any person at unawares, and that he should not die by the hand of the avenger of the blood, until he have stood before the congregation.

²⁷ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the other half tribe of Menasseh the city of refuge for the manslayer, Golan in Bashan with its open spaces, and Be’eshterah with its open spaces: two cities.

^{38 (21:36)} And from the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Ramoth in Gil’ad with its open spaces, and Machanayim with its open spaces,

⁵ Only take diligent heed to practise the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord hath commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

¹⁷ Have we had too little in the iniquity of Peor,—from which we are not yet cleansed until this day,—when there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord?

⁸ But unto the Lord your God shall ye cleave, as ye have done unto this day.

¹¹ Take good heed therefore for your souls’ sake, to love the Lord your God.

¹⁶ When ye transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he hath commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow yourselves down to them: then will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

⁸ Then died Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, being one hundred and ten years old. ⁹ And they buried him on the border of his inheritance in Timnath-cheres, in the mountain of Ephraim, on the north side of mount Ga’ash. ¹⁰ And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, who knew not the Lord, and likewise not the deeds which he had done for Israel. ¹¹ And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord, and served the Be’alim: ¹² And they forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods, of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and they bowed themselves unto them, and incensed the Lord. ¹³ And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and ‘Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of spoilers who spoiled them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they were not able any longer to stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

²² And when Gid’on perceived that it was an angel of the Lord, Gid’on said, Alas, O Lord Eternal! because I have surely seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

¹⁴ And they lifted up their voice and wept a long time; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth cleaved unto her. ¹⁵ And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is returned back unto her people, and unto her gods; return thou after thy sister-in-law. ¹⁶ But Ruth said, Urge me not to leave thee, to return from following thee; for whither thou goest, will I go; and where thou lodgest, will I lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. ¹⁷ Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; may the Lord do so to me, and may he so continue, if aught but death shall part me from thee.

² There is none holy like the Lord; for there is none beside thee; and there is not any rock like our God.

²⁴ Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for see what great things he hath done with you.

⁴⁵ Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest unto me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the arrays of Israel, that thou hast defied. ⁴⁶ This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and remove thy head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God for Israel. ⁴⁷ And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not through sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you up into our hand.

¹⁹ And now, I pray thee, let my Lord the king hear the words of his servant! If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, then may he accept the savor of an offering; but if they be the children of men, then be they cursed before the Lord; because they have driven me out this day so that I cannot attach myself on the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

²³ And who is like thy people, like Israel, the only nation on the earth, which God went to redeem for himself as a people, and to acquire for himself a name, and to do for you this great deed, and fearful things for thy land to drive out, from before thy people which thou hast redeemed for thyself from Egypt, nations and their gods.

³ And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses; in order that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;

¹³ Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gil’ad; to him pertained the villages of Ya’ir the son of Menasseh, which are in Gil’ad; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and brazen bars;

^{34 (5:14)} And men came from all the people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.

⁴⁶ If they sin against thee, for there is no man that may not sin, and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto the land of the enemy, be it far or near; ⁴⁷ And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly;

⁴⁷ And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captors, saying, We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly; ⁴⁸ And they return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have led them away captive, and they pray unto thee in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the house which I have built for thy name:

⁴⁸ And they return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who have led them away captive, and they pray unto thee in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, of the city which thou hast chosen, and of the house which I have built for thy name: ⁴⁹ Then hear thou in heaven the place of thy dwelling their prayer and their supplication, and procure them justice; ⁵⁰ And forgive thy people for what they have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and cause them to find mercy before their captors, that they may have mercy on them; ⁵¹ For they are thy people, and thy heritage, whom thou hast brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace;

⁵¹ For they are thy people, and thy heritage, whom thou hast brought forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace; ⁵² That thy eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to listen unto them in all for which they call unto thee; ⁵³ For thou hast separated them unto thee as a heritage from all the people of the earth, as thou spokest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest forth our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Eternal.

⁶ And she said to the king, The truth only was the word that I heard in my own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. ⁷ And I believed not in the words, until I came, and my eyes saw all: and, behold, the half hath not been told me; thou excellest in wisdom and prosperity the report which I have heard. ⁸ Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, who stand before thee continually, who hear thy wisdom. ⁹ Blessed be the Lord thy God, who hath had delight in thee, to place thee on the throne of Israel; because the Lord loveth Israel for ever, therefore hath he made thee king, to do justice and righteousness.

²¹ And he called unto the man of God that was come from Judah, saying, Thus hath said the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the order of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God had commanded thee; ²² But didst return, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of which he had spoken to thee, Thou shalt not eat bread, nor drink water: thy dead body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

³⁶ And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening-sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, O Lord, God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, this day let it be known that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that at thy word I have done all these things. ³⁷ Answer me, O Lord, answer me, and let all this people know that thou, O Lord, art the true God, and thou wilt then have turned their heart back again.

¹² And after the earthquake was a fire; but not in the fire was the Lord; and after the fire was the sound of a soft whisper. ¹³ And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, that he concealed his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave: and, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What dost thou here, Elijah?

³ And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gil’ad is ours, and we remain idle, without taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria? ⁴ And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to the battle against Ramoth-gil’ad? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I will be like thee, my people like thy people, my horses like thy horses.

³¹ But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jerobo’am, who induced Israel to sin.

¹⁶ And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves molten images, two calves, and made a grove, and bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and served Ba’al; ¹⁷ And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divinations and enchantments, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. ¹⁸ Therefore became the Lord very angry with Israel, and he removed them from his presence: there was none left but the tribe of Judah alone. ¹⁹ Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs of Israel which they had made.

¹⁹ And now, O Lord our God, save us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, thou alone.

² And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel. ³ And he built up again the high-places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Ba’al, and made a grove, as Achab the king of Israel had done; and he bowed down to all the host of heaven, and served them.

¹⁴ And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and give them up into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; ¹⁵ Forasmuch as they have done what is evil in my eyes, and have been provoking me to anger, from the day that their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even until this day. ¹⁶ And also innocent blood did Menasseh shed in very great abundance, till he had filled therewith Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he induced Judah to sin, to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord.

³ And the king stood upon the stand, and he made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to maintain the words of this covenant that are written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant. ⁴ And the king commanded Chilkiyahu the high-priest, and the priests of the second order, and the door-keepers, to carry forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Ba’al, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven: and they burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes unto Beth-el. ⁵ And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had appointed that they might burn incense on the high-places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; those also that burnt incense unto Ba’al, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

¹¹ And he put down the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, from the entrance of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nethan-melech the chamberlain, who was over the suburbs; and the chariots of the sun he burnt with fire.

^{71 (6:56)} Unto the sons of Gershom were given from the family of the half tribe of Menasseh, Golan in Bashan with its open spaces, and ‘Ashtaroth with its open spaces.

^{80 (6:65)} And from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gila’d with its open spaces, and Machanayim with its open spaces.

¹⁵ Remember ye for ever his covenant, the word which he hath commanded to the thousandth generation.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with an entire heart and with a willing soul; for all hearts doth the Lord search, and every imagination of the thoughts doth he understand; if thou seek him, he will let himself be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever. ¹⁰ See now that the Lord hath made choice of thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong and do it.

²⁰ And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do the work; fear not, and be not dismayed; for the Lord God, yea, my God is with thee: he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

¹¹ Thine, O Lord, are the greatness, and the might, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, yea, all that is in the heavens and on the earth: thine, O Lord, is the kingdom, and thou art exalted as the head above all.

³⁶ If they sin against thee—for there is no man that may not sin,—and thou be angry with them, and give them up before the enemy, so that their captors carry them away captive unto a land far off or near; ³⁷ And if they then take it to their heart in the land whither they have been carried captive, and repent and make supplication unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, and have acted wickedly; ³⁸ And they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have been carried captive, and they pray in the direction of their land, which thou hast given unto their fathers, and of the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built unto thy name: ³⁹ Then hear thou from heaven, from the place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplications, and procure them justice, and forgive thy people for what they have sinned against thee.

⁴ But they returned when they were in distress unto the Lord, the God of Israel, and they sought him, and he let himself be found by them.

¹² And they entered into the covenant to seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced because of the oath; for with all their heart had they sworn, and with their whole desire did they seek him, and he let himself be found by them: and the Lord gave them rest on every side.

⁹ For as regardeth the Lord, his eyes roam throughout the whole earth, to hold strongly with those whose heart is entire toward him: thou hast done foolishly for this reason; because from this time forth there will be wars with thee.

⁶ And he said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, thou art God in the heavens, and thou rulest over all the kingdoms of the nations; and in thy hand are the power and might, and there is none that can withstand thee.

⁹ For If ye return unto the Lord, your brethren and your children will find mercy in the presence of their captors, so that they may return to this land; for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his countenance from you, if ye return unto him.

²¹ And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he acted with all his heart, and prospered.

¹² And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord his God: he humbled himself not before Jeremiah the prophet, according to the order of the Lord. ¹³ And also against king Nebuchadnezzar did he rebel, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart so as not to return unto the Lord the God of Israel. ¹⁴ Also all the chiefs of the priests and the people committed manifold trespasses, like all the abominable acts of the foreign nations: and they defiled the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them by means of his messengers, making them rise early, and sending them: because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place; ¹⁶ But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

³ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great misery and in disgrace; and the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and her gates are burnt with fire.

⁵ And I said, I beseech thee, O Lord the God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth the covenant and kindness for those that love him and for those that keep his commandments:

⁸ Remember, I beseech thee, the word with which thou didst charge Moses thy servant, saying, If ye become truly unfaithful, I will indeed scatter you among the nations. ⁹ But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them: then though your outcasts should be at the utmost parts of heaven, from there will I gather them, and I will bring them unto the place which I have chosen to let my name dwell there.

⁹ But if ye return unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them: then though your outcasts should be at the utmost parts of heaven, from there will I gather them, and I will bring them unto the place which I have chosen to let my name dwell there.

⁶ Thou indeed art the Eternal One alone: It is thou that hast made the heavens with all their host, the earth, and all that is upon her, the seas, and all that is in them, and thou givest life to them all; and the host of the heavens bow down before thee.

¹³ Also on mount Sinai camest thou down, and spokest with them from heaven; and thou gavest them upright ordinances, and truthful laws, good statutes and commandments;

³¹ Yet in thy abundant mercies hast thou not made an entire end of them, and thou hast not forsaken them; for a gracious and merciful God art thou.

⁸ For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to stand by the research of their fathers;—

²⁸ And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.

²⁶ If ever I looked at the light of the sun when he shone brightly and on the moon walking in splendor: ²⁷ And my heart became misled in secret, and my hand kissed my mouth: ²⁸ This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge; for thus would I have denied the God that is above.

^{7 (19:8)} The law of the Lord is perfect, quieting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

^{7 (19:8)} The law of the Lord is perfect, quieting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. ^{8 (19:9)} The precepts of the Lord are upright, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes. ^{9 (19:10)} The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever: the ordinances of the Lord are the truth, they are just altogether. ^{10 (19:11)} They are those which are to be desired more than gold, and much fine gold; and they are sweeter than honey and the dropping of honeycomb. ^{11 (19:12)} Moreover thy servant is admonished by them: in keeping them there is great reward.

^{9 (21:10)} Thou wilt render them as a fiery oven at the time of thy anger: the Lord in his wrath will destroy them, and a fire will devour them.

⁹ Help thy people, and bless thy heritage: and feed them, and exalt them unto all eternity.

⁸ I will instruct thee and I will teach thee concerning the way which thou oughtest to go: I will counsel thee with my eye.

¹² Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he hath chosen for himself as a heritage.

^{11 (34:12)} Come, ye children, hearken unto me: the fear of the Lord will I teach you. ^{12 (34:13)} Who is the man that desireth life, loveth many days, that he may see happiness? ^{13 (34:14)} Guard thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deceit. ^{14 (34:15)} Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. ^{15 (34:16)} The eyes of the Lord are directed unto the righteous, and his ears unto their cry.

^{15 (34:16)} The eyes of the Lord are directed unto the righteous, and his ears unto their cry. ^{16 (34:17)} But the anger of the Lord is against those that do evil, to cut off from the earth their remembrance.

^{18 (34:19)} The Lord is nigh unto those that are broken-hearted: and he saveth those that are of a contrite spirit.

¹ To the chief musician, for the sons of Korach, a Maskil. ^(44:2) O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, deeds which thou hadst done in their days, in times of old. ^{2 (44:3)} Thou, with thy hand, didst indeed drive out nations, and plant them; thou didst ill-treat people, and cause them to spread out. ^{3 (44:4)} For not by their sword did they obtain possession of the land, and their own arm brought them no victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst given them thy favor.

¹ To the chief musician: by the sons of Korach, upon ‘Alamoth, a song. ^(46:2) God is our protection and strength, a help in distresses, very readily found.

^{11 (58:12)} So that a man shall say, Verily fruit will come for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth on the earth.

^{8 (63:9)} My soul cleaveth unto following thee: me thy right hand upholdeth.

¹⁸ Therefore also even in old age, and when I am grayheaded, O God, forsake me not: until I have told of thy strength unto this generation, to every one that may come of thy might.

²⁸ But as regardeth me, to draw near to God is good for me: I have put in the Lord Eternal my trust, that I may relate all thy works.

¹⁶ Thine is the day and thine is the night: it is thou who hast prepared the luminary and the sun. ¹⁷ It is thou who hast set up all the boundaries of the earth: summer and winter—thou thyself hast formed them.

³ Which we have heard and know, and which our fathers have related unto us. ⁴ We will not conceal them from their children, relating to the latest generation the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful deeds which he hath done. ⁵ Yea, he established a testimony in Jacob, and instituted a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: ⁶ In order that the latest generation might know them, even the children that are to be born; that they may arise and relate them to their children; ⁷ That they may place in God their hope, and not forget the doings of God, but observe his commandments; ⁸ And that they may not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that had not directed their heart firmly, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

¹² In the presence of their fathers did he do wonders, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo’an.

⁴⁸ And he surrendered to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the lightning’s flashes. ⁴⁹ He let loose against them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation, and distress, a host of angels of misfortune. ⁵⁰ He leveled a path for his anger; he withheld not from death their soul, and their life he surrendered to the pestilence; ⁵¹ And he smote all the first-born in Egypt; the first of their strength in the tents of Ham; ⁵² But he caused his own people to depart like flocks, and guided them like a drove in the wilderness. ⁵³ And he led them in safety, so that they felt no dread; but the sea covered over their enemies.

⁵⁸ And they provoked him to anger with their high-places, and with their graven images they moved him to jealousy.

^{18 (83:19)} That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.

⁵ For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, and abundant in kindness unto all that call on thee.

¹⁵ But thou, O Lord, art God, full of mercy, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in kindness and truth.

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob, his elect. ⁷ He is the Lord our God: over all the earth are his decrees. ⁸ He remembereth his covenant for ever, the word which he hath commanded, to the thousandth generation.

⁸ He remembereth his covenant for ever, the word which he hath commanded, to the thousandth generation. ⁹ Which he covenanted with Abraham; and his oath unto Isaac; ¹⁰ And which he established unto Jacob as a statute, unto Israel as an everlasting covenant:

⁴⁴ And he gave them the lands of nations; and the labor of people they obtained as an inheritance: ⁴⁵ So that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Hallelujah.

⁴⁵ So that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Hallelujah.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed themselves down to a molten image. ²⁰ And they exchanged their glory for the similitude of an ox that eateth herbs.

²⁸ And they joined themselves unto Ba’al-pe’or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. ²⁹ And they provoked him to anger with their deeds: and there broke in among them the plague.

³² They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, and evil happened to Moses for their sake; ³³ Because they had embittered his spirit, and so he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

⁵ He hath given sustenance unto those that fear him: he will for ever be mindful of his covenant.

⁹ Redemption hath he sent unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever: holy and to be feared is his name. ¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord; a good understanding have all that fulfill his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

¹ When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language: ² Judah became his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. ³ The sea beheld it, and fled: the Jordan was driven backward. ⁴ The mountains skipped like wethers, the hills like lambs. ⁵ What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? thou, O Jordan, that thou art driven backward? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skip like wethers? ye hills, like lambs?

³ Whereas our God is in the heavens: whatsoever he desireth hath he done. ⁴ Their idols are sliver and gold, the work of the hands of man. ⁵ A mouth they have, but speak not; eyes they have, but see not; ⁶ Ears they have, but hear not; a nose they have, but smell not. ⁷ They have hands, but they touch not; they have feet, but they walk not: nor do they give any utterance by their throat. ⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

⁵ Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; and our God is merciful.

² Happy are they who keep his testimonies, that seek him with all their heart.

⁴ Thou thyself hast commanded us thy precepts, that we might keep them diligently. ⁵ Oh that my ways were firmly directed to observe thy statutes!

⁷ I will thank thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.

⁹ BETH. Wherewithal shall a youth keep his way pure? by guarding it according to thy word. ¹⁰ With all my heart have I sought thee: oh let me not wander astray from thy commandments. ¹¹ In my heart have I treasured up thy saying, in order that I may not sin against thee.

¹⁴ On the way of thy testimonies have I been glad, as over all wealth.

²² Roll away from me reproach and contempt; for thy testimonies have I kept.

²⁴ Also thy testimonies are my delight, my counsellors.

⁵⁸ I make entreaty before thee with all my heart: be gracious unto me according to thy promise.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are founded on truth: without cause they persecute me; help thou me.

⁹⁶ Of all perfection have I seen the end; but thy commandment is exceedingly extended.

⁹⁸ Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers have I obtained intelligence; for thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ More than the elders do I possess understanding; because thy precepts do I keep.

¹¹¹ I have taken thy testimonies as a heritage to eternity; for they are the joy of my heart.

¹²⁷ Therefore do I love thy commandments more than gold, and more than fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore do I esteem all thy precepts in all things as right: every path of falsehood do I hate.

¹⁴⁵ KOPH. I have called with all my heart: answer me, O Lord: thy statutes will I keep.

³ Like the dew of Chermon, running down upon the mountains of Zion; for there hath the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

⁴ For Jacob hath the Lord chosen unto himself, Israel, as his peculiar treasure.

⁶ Whatsoever the Lord willeth, hath he done in the heavens, and on the earth, in the seas, and in all the deeps.

¹⁵ The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of men. ¹⁶ Mouths they have, but they speak not; eyes they have, but they see not; ¹⁷ Ears they have, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouth. ¹⁸ Like them are those that make them, every one that trusteth in them.

⁷ To him that made great lights; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ⁸ The sun for the rule by day; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ⁹ The moon and stars for the rule by night; for to eternity endureth his kindness. ¹⁰ To him that smote Egypt in their first-born; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹¹ And brought out Israel from the midst of them; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹² With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for to eternity endureth his kindness. ¹³ To him who divided the Red Sea into parts; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹⁴ And caused Israel to pass through the midst of it; for to eternity endureth his kindness; ¹⁵ But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; for to eternity endureth his kindness.

⁶ I spread forth my hands unto thee: my soul longeth for thee, as a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hasten, answer me, O Lord, my spirit falleth: hide not thy face from me, that I may not become like those that go down into the pit. ⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning thy kindness; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way whereon I should walk; for unto thee do I lift up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies: by thee do I seek shelter. ¹⁰ Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; guide me on a level land. ¹¹ For thy sake, O Lord, revive me: in thy righteousness bring forth out of distress my soul.

⁸ Gracious and merciful is the Lord, long-suffering, and great in kindness. ⁹ The Lord is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works.

¹⁸ The Lord is nigh unto all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

¹⁹ He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. ²⁰ He hath not done so unto any nation: and his ordinances—these they know not. Hallelujah.

³ Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. ⁴ Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens. ⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord; for he commanded and they were created.

¹⁴ He also exalteth the horn of his people, a praise unto all his pious servants, even unto the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Hallelujah.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise. ⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;

¹ My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart keep my commandments; ² For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they increase unto thee. ³ Let kindness and truth not forsake thee; bind them about thy throat; write them upon the table of thy heart:

²¹ My son, let them not be removed from thy eyes; keep before thee sound wisdom and discretion:

¹ Hear, ye children, the correction of a father, and attend to know understanding. ² For good information do I give you: my teaching must ye not forsake. ³ For I was a son unto my father, a tender and an only child before my mother. ⁴ And he instructed me, and said unto me, Let thy heart grasp firmly my words: observe my commandments and live. ⁵ Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding: forget not, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she will watch over thee: love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ The beginning of wisdom is, Acquire wisdom: and with all thy acquisition acquire understanding. ⁸ Hold her in high esteem, and she will exalt thee: she will bring thee to honor, when thou embracest her. ⁹ She will give to thy head a wreath of grace: a crown of ornament will she deliver to thee. ¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and accept my sayings: and they will increase unto thee the years of life. ¹¹ In the way of wisdom have I instructed thee: I have led thee in the tracks of uprightness. ¹² When thou walkest, thy step shall not be narrowed; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. ¹³ Lay fast hold of correction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

²⁰ My son, attend to my words, unto my sayings incline thy ear. ²¹ Let them not slip away from thy eyes: guard them in the midst of thy heart. ²² For they are life unto every one of those that find them, and to all his body a healing. ²³ Above all that is to be guarded, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.

²³ Above all that is to be guarded, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.

²⁷ Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

¹ My son, observe my sayings, and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; but the folly of fools is deceit.

¹⁹ That thy trust may be in the Lord, have I made them known to thee this day, yea, even to thee. ²⁰ Have not I written for thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart unto me, and let thy eyes watch my ways.

⁶ Do not add aught unto his words: lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

¹³ The end of the matter is, let us hear the whole: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

² Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord hath spoken: Children have I nourished and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. ³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

¹⁹ If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;

¹² And there are harp and psaltery, tambourine and flute, and wine at their drinking-feasts; but the deeds of the Lord they regard not, and the works of his hands they behold not.

¹¹ And I said, How long, O Lord? And he said, Until that cities be left waste without an inhabitant, and houses without man, and the soil be made desolate as a wilderness,

¹ Behold, the Lord maketh empty the land, and layeth it waste, marreth its surface, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants. ² And it shall be with the people as with the priest; with the servant as with his master; with the bondwoman as with her mistress; with the buyer as with the seller; with the lender as with the borrower; with the debtor as with his creditor. ³ Empty, emptied out shall be the land, and spoiled, utterly spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word.

⁵ For the land was defiled under its inhabitants; because they had transgressed the laws, neglected the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy door behind thee: hide thyself but for a little moment, until the indignation be passed away.

²¹ And thy ears shall hear the word behind thee, saying, “This is the way, walk ye in it,” when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

²⁷ Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from afar, burning is his anger, and heavy the smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

³³ For already of old is Topheth made ready; also this is prepared for the king—deep and wide; its pile hath fire and wood in plenty, the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, will kindle it into a flame.

¹⁴ In Zion sinners are in dread; trembling hath seized on hypocrites. “Who among us shall abide with the devouring fire? who among us shall abide with everlasting burnings?”

¹⁹ The living, the living alone shall thank thee, like me this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

³ A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.

⁶ A voice saith, Proclaim; and he saith, What shall I proclaim? all flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field:

¹⁸ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

⁸ But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend; ⁹ Thou, whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the midst of its chiefs, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

⁸ I am the Everlasting One, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to any other, nor my praise to graven images.

⁴ Since thou art precious in my eyes, art honorable, and I indeed do love thee: therefore will I give men in place of thee, and nations instead of thy soul.

⁶ Thus hath said the Lord, the king of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no god.

⁸ Have no dread, and do not despond; have I not long since informed thee, and have told it? and ye are my witnesses: Is there a god beside me? yea, there is no rock, whom I know not. ⁹ The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed.

⁵ I am the Lord, and there is none else, beside me there is no god; I assisted thee, though thou hast not known me.

¹⁸ For thus hath said the Lord the creator of the heavens; he, the God that formed the earth and made it; he that hath established it,—not for naught did he create it, to be inhabited did he form it: I am the Lord; and there is no one else.

²⁰ Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye escaped fugitives of the nations! They have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

²² Turn unto me, so that ye may be helped, all ye ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no one else.

⁷ They carry him, upon the shoulder they bear him, and set up him in his spot, and he remaineth standing, from his place he doth not move: yea, though one should cry unto him, he cannot answer, out of his trouble he cannot help him.

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord: awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of olden times. Art thou not it that struck down Rahab, that pierced the crocodile? ¹⁰ Art thou not it that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that rendered the depths of the sea a road for the redeemed to pass through? ¹¹ And so shall the ransomed of the Lord return, and come to Zion with song, with everlasting joy upon their head; gladness and joy shall they obtain, while sorrow and sighing shall have fled away.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found, call ye on him, while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of unrighteousness his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and unto our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁹ In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and he carried them all the days of old.

¹¹ Then remembered his people the ancient days of Moses, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put within him his holy Spirit? ¹² That displayed by the right hand of Moses his glorious arm; that divided the water before them, to make unto himself an everlasting name?

¹⁷ Why hast thou let us go astray, O Lord, from thy ways, suffered our heart to be hardened against thy fear? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage. ¹⁸ But a brief space were thy holy people in possession, when our adversaries trod down thy sanctuary.

¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and let your hair stand at an end, be ye greatly terrified, saith the Lord.

¹⁰ And yet with all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with all her heart, but with falsehood, saith the Lord.

¹² Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord: I will not cause my anger to fall upon you; for I am full of kindness, saith the Lord, I will not hear grudge for ever. ¹³ Only acknowledge thy iniquity, that against the Lord thy God thou hast rebelled, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and that unto my voice ye have not hearkened, saith the Lord. ¹⁴ Return, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am become your husband; and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and bring you to Zion:

¹⁹ Hear, O earth! behold, I will bring evil upon this people, the fruit of their thoughts; because unto my words have they not been attentive, and as regardeth my law,—that have they despised.

²³ But this thing did I command them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be unto you for a God, and ye shall be unto me for a people; and walk ye altogether on the way which I may command you, in order that it may be well unto you.

² And they shall spread them out before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and to which they have prostrated themselves: they shall not be gathered up, and they shall not be buried; dung upon the face of the ground shall they become.

⁹ The wise men are ashamed, they are discouraged and caught, lo, the word of the Lord have they rejected; and what wisdom have they now?

³ For the statutes of these people concern what is vanity; for it is but a tree which a man hath cut out of a forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

⁹ The beaten out silver is brought from Tharshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple is their clothing; the work of skilful men are they all.

⁴ Which I commanded your fathers on the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Hearken to my voice, and do the same, in accordance with all which I may command you; and so shall ye be to me for a people, and I will be to you for a God;

²¹ Do not cast us off, for the sake of thy name, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

¹³ Therefore will I hurl you out of this land into the land of which ye had no knowledge, neither ye nor your fathers; and ye will serve there other gods by day and by night; so that I will not grant you any favor.

²¹ Thus hath said the Lord, Take heed for your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath-day, nor bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem;

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are unclean, shall become as the place of the Thopheth, with all the houses upon the roofs of which they have burnt incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

¹² O house of David, thus hath said the Lord, Exercise justice on every morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor; lest my fury go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. ¹³ Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitress of the valley, about the rock of the plain, saith the Lord; who say, Who shall descend down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? ¹⁴ But I will inflict punishment on you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all its environs.

²⁹ O land, land, land! hear the word of the Lord.

²⁰ The anger of the Lord will not return, until he have executed, and until he have fulfilled the purposes of his heart: in the end of days shall ye understand this fully.

¹² And you will call upon me, and ye will go and will pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. ¹³ And ye will seek me, and shall find me, for ye will search for me with all your heart. ¹⁴ And I will be found of you, saith the Lord; and I will bring back your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will cause you to return unto the place whence I have banished you.

^{1 (30:25)} At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God for all the families of Israel, and they shall be unto me for a people.

^{22 (31:21)} How long wilt thou roam about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing on the earth, The woman will go about seeking for the husband.

^{35 (31:34)} Thus hath said the Lord, who bestoweth the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea that its waves roar—The Lord of hosts is his name:

²¹ And thou didst bring forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;

²⁵ Thus hath said the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth:

²² So that the Lord could no longer endure it, because of the evil of your doings, because of the abominations which ye had committed: therefore is your land become a ruin, and an object of astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

⁴⁰ Let us search through and investigate our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

¹⁶ And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward to the sun.

⁴ And the Lord said unto him, Pass through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and inscribe a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and who complain because of all the abominations which are done in the midst of it.

²⁰ In order that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; and they shall be unto me for a people, and I will indeed be unto them for a God.

¹⁵ And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

⁵⁹ For thus hath said the Lord Eternal, I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, thou who hast despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

¹¹ And I gave them my statutes, and my ordinances made I known to them, which a man is to do, that he may live through them.

²¹ Nevertheless the children rebelled against me; in my statutes did they not walk, and my ordinances they kept not to do them, which a man is to do, that he may live through them; my sabbaths they profaned: and I then thought to pour out my fury over them, to let out all my anger against them in the wilderness.

³² And that which cometh up into your mind shall not at all come to pass, namely, that ye say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the other countries, to serve wood and stone.

³⁹ As for you, O house of Israel, thus hath said the Lord Eternal, Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name do not profane any more with your gifts, and with your idols.

^{1 (21:6)} And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^{2 (21:7)} Son of man, direct thy face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel, ^{3 (21:8)} And say to the land of Israel, Thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will be against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath; and I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked. ^{4 (21:9)} But because I shall have cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked: therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north; ^{5 (21:10)} That all flesh may know that I the Lord have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more. ^{6 (21:11)} But thou, son of man, do thou sigh: as though with broken loins, and with bitterness of grief shalt thou sigh before their eyes. ^{7 (21:12)} And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, For the report, because it cometh, when every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall become faint, and all knees shall be changed into water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord Eternal. ^{8 (21:13)} And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^{9 (21:14)} Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus hath said the Lord, Say, The sword, the sword is sharpened, and also polished; ^{10 (21:15)} In order to make a thorough slaughter is it sharpened; in order that it may glitter is it polished: how can we now rejoice, when the rod which reacheth my son excelleth in hardness every tree? ^{11 (21:16)} And he hath given it to be polished, to make it fit to grasp it in the hand: it is the sword which is sharpened, and it is polished, to place it into the hand of the slayer. ^{12 (21:17)} Cry aloud and wail, O son of man; for it cometh against my people, it cometh against all the princes of Israel; brought together for the sword are they with my people: therefore strike thy hand upon thy thigh. ^{13 (21:18)} For a purification taketh place: and what if the irresistible rod will also come? my son would not be able to exist, saith the Lord Eternal. ^{14 (21:19)} But thou, son of man, prophesy, and strike thy hands together, and let “The sword” be repeated the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great that are slain, which lieth in wait for them everywhere. ^{15 (21:20)} In order to make timid the heart, and to multiply the stumbling-blocks, do I bring the howling of the sword against all their gates: ah! it is made bright, it is made thin-edged for the slaughter. ^{16 (21:21)} Gather up thy strength, go to the right hand, direct thyself, go to the left, whithersoever thy edge is turned. ^{17 (21:22)} And I also,—I will strike my hands together, and I will cause my fury to be assuaged: I the Lord have spoken it. ^{18 (21:23)} And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ^{19 (21:24)} But thou, O son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; out of one land shall both of them come forth: and select a place; at the head of the way to a city do thou select it. ^{20 (21:25)} A way shalt thou appoint, that the sword may come against Rabbah of the children of ‘Ammon, and the other against Judah dwelling in Jerusalem the fortified. ^{21 (21:26)} For the king of Babylon hath halted at the parting of the way, at the commencement of the two ways, to use divination: he shaketh the arrows, he consulteth with images, he looketh at the liver. ^{22 (21:27)} At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to erect battering-rams, to open the mouth with the cry for murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to place battering-rams against the gates, to cast up a mound, and to build works of attack. ^{23 (21:28)} And it will appear unto them as a false divination in their eyes, to those that had sworn oaths; but he will bring to remembrance their iniquity, that they may be caught.

²⁶ There is Meshech, Thubal, and all her multitude; all round about her are her graves: all of them are the uncircumcised, slain by the sword; because they once spread their terror in the land of the living.

²⁸ And I will render the land desolate and wasted, and the pride of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, with none to pass through them.

⁴ Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord Eternal, Thus hath said the Lord Eternal to the mountains, and to the hills, to the ravines, and to the valleys, to the desolate ruins, and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about:

²⁷ And my spirit I will put within you, and I will cause that you shall walk in my statutes, and that my ordinances ye shall keep, and do them.

²⁴ And my servant David shall be king over them; and one shepherd shall be for them all: and in my ordinances shall they walk, and my statutes shall they observe, and do them.

²⁰ And in every matter of wise understanding, which the king required of them, he found them ten times superior above all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his kingdom.

^{9 (4:6)} O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, of whom I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and that no secret is concealed from thee, tell me the visions of my dream which I have seen, with its interpretation.

^{35 (4:32)} And by whom all the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nought; and who according to his pleasure doth with the host of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth; while there is none that can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

¹¹ There is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father enlightenment and intelligence and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him: and king Nebuchadnezzar thy father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers:—yes, thy father, O king.— ¹² Forasmuch as a superior spirit, and knowledge, and intelligence, interpreting of dreams, and solving of riddles, and of untying knotty doubts, were found in him, in Daniel, to whom the king assigned the name of Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will tell the interpretation. ¹³ Then was Daniel brought in before the king: the king commenced and said unto Daniel, Art thou Daniel, who art of the children of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah? ¹⁴ And I have heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that enlightenment and intelligence and superior wisdom are found in thee. ¹⁵ And now the wise men, the astrologers, had been brought before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me its interpretation; but they were not able to tell the interpretation of the matter. ¹⁶ But I have truly heard concerning thee, that thou art able to give interpretations, and untie knotty doubts: now if thou art able to read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, thou shalt be clothed with purple, with a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt rule as the third in the kingdom.

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, and have departed so as not to obey thy voice: therefore was poured out over us the curse, with the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; because we had sinned against him. ¹² And he hath accomplished his words, which he had spoken concerning us, and concerning our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil, which was never done under the whole heaven as it hath been done in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written in the law of Moses; all this evil came over us: yet offered we not any entreaty before the Lord our God, to return from our iniquities, and to become intelligent in thy truth. ¹⁴ Therefore did the Lord watch over the evil, and he brought it upon us; for the Lord our God is righteous because of all his deeds which he hath done; but we have not obeyed his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth thy people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and hast made thyself a great name, as it is this day: we have sinned, we have done wickedly. ¹⁶ O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thy anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because through our sins, and through the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all who are round about us. ¹⁷ And now listen, O our God, to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary which is desolate, for the sake of the Lord. ¹⁸ Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear; open thy eyes, and look on our desolations, and the city whereupon thy name is called: for not relying on our acts of righteousness do we present humbly our supplications before thee, but relying on thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do it; delay it not; for thy own sake, O my God; for thy name is called upon thy city and upon thy people.

¹⁴ Now am I come to make thee understand what is to befall thy people, in the latter days; for the vision is yet for the coming days.

⁵ After that will the children of Israel return, and seek for the Lord their God and David their king; and fearing will they hasten to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days,

² And they never think in their own heart that I remember all their wickedness: though now their own doings are all round about them; before my face are they present.

⁹ They are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gib’ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. ¹⁰ Like grapes in the wilderness had I found Israel; as the first ripe fruit on the fig-tree in the first of the season had I seen your fathers; but they too went to Ba’al-pe’or: and devoted themselves unto that shameful idol, and became abominations as those they loved.

^{2 (14:3)} Take with you swords, and return to the Lord: say unto him, “Pardon all our iniquity, and accept our return to good; and let us repay the steers of sacrifice with the prayer of our lips. ^{3 (14:4)} Asshur shall not help us; upon horses will we not ride: and we will no more say, Ye are our gods, to the work of our hands; for in thee alone the fatherless obtaineth mercy.”

² Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Did ever such a thing as this come to pass in your days, or ever in the days of your fathers?

¹² But even now also, saith the Lord, return ye fully to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:

¹² But even now also, saith the Lord, return ye fully to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: ¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, and return unto the Lord your God; for gracious and merciful is he, long suffering, and of great kindness, and he bethinketh himself of the evil.

² Only you have I loved out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

²⁵ Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and meat-offerings in the wilderness during forty years, O house of Israel? ²⁶ Bear then the canopy of your chief idol, and the figure of your images, the star of your god, which ye have made for yourselves.

² And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my word, while I was yet in my own country? Therefore made I haste to fly unto Tharshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in kindness, and repentant of the evil.

² Hear, ye people, altogether; listen, O earth, with all that filleth it: and let the Lord Eternal be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

² Hear ye, O mountains, the controversy of the Lord, and ye strong foundations of the earth! for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and with Israel will he plead.

¹⁸ Who is a god like unto thee, pardoning iniquity, and forgiving transgression to the residue of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in kindness.

² A God watchful and avenging is the Lord; an avenger is the Lord, and full of fury; the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and keepeth in mind the deeds of his enemies.

⁶ Before his indignation who can stand? and who can subsist before the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down by him.

⁵ And those that bow themselves down on the roofs of houses to the host of heaven; and those that bow themselves down that are sworn to be true to the Lord and still swear by Malkom;

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; through the fire of whose zeal the whole land shall be devoured; for destruction, yea, quite sudden, will he prepare for all the inhabitants of the land.

⁸ Therefore wait but for me, saith the Lord, for the day that I rise up to the prey; for my judgment cometh to gather the nations, for me to assemble the kingdoms, to pour over them my indignation, all the fierceness of my anger; for through the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.

¹⁵ And distant ones shall come and build on the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God.

²⁰ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, A time shall yet be when there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities; ²¹ And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us only go to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I too will likewise go. ²² And many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord. ²³ Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, In those days it shall happen, that ten men out of all the languages of the nations shall take hold—yea, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, Let us go with you; for we have heard that God is with you.

² I have loved you, so hath said the Lord: yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Is not Esau brother to Jacob? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob;

¹⁵ And not one doth so who hath a remnant of a good spirit; for what desireth such a one? he seeketh to possess a godly posterity: therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none of you deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

¹² And all the nations shall call you blessed; for ye shall be a land of delight, saith the Lord of hosts.

^{4 (3:22)} Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, whom I commanded on Horeb for all Israel, statutes and ordinances.