Deuteronomy 4 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And now hearken, Israel, unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do them: that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. ² Ye shall put nothing unto the word which I command you, neither do ought therefrom, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the LORD did unto Baal-Peor: for all the men that followed Baal-Peor, the LORD your God hath destroyed from among you. ⁴ But ye that clave unto the LORD your God are alive, every one of you, this day. ⁵ Behold, I have taught you ordinances and laws, such as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do even so in the land whither ye go to possess it. ⁶ Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which, when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say, 'O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation.' ⁷ For what nation is so great that hath gods so nigh unto him as the LORD our God is nigh unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? ⁸ Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day? ⁹ Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons. ¹⁰ The day that I stood before the LORD your God in Horeb — when he said unto me, 'Gather me the people together, that I may make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me as long as they live upon the earth and that they may teach their children' - ¹¹ ye came and stood also under the hill, and the hill burnt with fire: even unto the midst of heaven, and there was darkness, clouds and mist. ¹² And the LORD spake unto you out of the fire and ye heard the voice of the words; But saw no image, save heard a voice only. ¹³ And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, even ten verses and wrote them in two tables of stone. ¹⁴ And the LORD commanded me, the same season, to teach you ordinances and laws, for to do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. ¹⁵ Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the fire; ¹⁶ lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman ¹⁷ or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air, ¹⁸ or of any manner worm that creepeth on the earth or of any manner fish that is in the water beneath the earth. ¹⁹ Yea, and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars and whatsoever is contained in heaven, shouldest be deceived and shouldest bow thyself unto them and serve the things which the LORD thy God hath distributed unto all nations that are under all quarters of heaven. ²⁰ For the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as it is come to pass this day. ²¹ Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inheritance. ²² For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land. ²³ Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. ²⁴ For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. ²⁵ If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him. ²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed. ²⁷ And the LORD shall scatter you among nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the people whither the LORD shall bring you: ²⁸ and there ye shall serve gods which are the works of man's hand: wood and stone which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. ²⁹ Neverthelater, ye shall seek the LORD your God even there, and shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul. ³⁰ In thy tribulation and when all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, thou shalt turn unto the LORD thy God, and shalt hearken unto his voice. ³¹ For the LORD thy God is a merciful God: he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant made with thy fathers which he sware unto them. ³² For ask, I pray thee, of the days that are past which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth and from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether anything hath been like unto this great thing or whether any such thing hath been heard as it is - ³³ that a nation hath heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet lived? ³⁴ Either, whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, through temptations and signs and wonders and through war and with a mighty hand and a stretched-out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did unto you in Egypt before your eyes. ³⁵ Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know how that the LORD he is God and that there is none but he. ³⁶ Out of heaven he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire. ³⁷ And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt: ³⁸ to thrust out nations greater and mightier than thou before thee, to bring thee in, and to give thee their land to inheritance: as it is come to pass this day. ³⁹ Understand, therefore, this day: and turn it to thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath, there is no more. ⁴⁰ Keep therefore his ordinances, 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 prolong thy days upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee forever." ⁴¹ Then Moses severed three cities on the other side Jordan toward the sun rising, ⁴² that he should flee thither which had killed his neighbour unawares and hated him not in time past, and therefore should flee unto one of the same cities and live: ⁴³ Bezer in the wilderness, even in the plain country, among the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead among the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan among the Manassites. ⁴⁴ This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel; ⁴⁵ and these are the witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ on the other side Jordan in the valley beside Bethpeor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they were come out of Egypt, ⁴⁷ and conquered his land and the land of Og king of Bashan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan toward the sun rising: ⁴⁸ from Aroer upon the bank of the river Arnon, unto mount Sirion which is called Hermon, ⁴⁹ and all the fields on the other side Jordan eastward: even unto the sea in the field under the springs of Pisgah.

⁵ Keep therefore mine ordinances, and my judgments which, if a man do, he shall live thereby: for I am the LORD.

³⁷ that ye should observe all mine ordinances and judgments and that ye should keep them: I am the LORD.'"

⁸ And see that ye keep mine ordinances and do them. For I am the LORD which sanctify you.

³¹ Keep now my commandments and do them, for I am the LORD.

⁸ Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?

⁴⁵ and these are the witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt,

¹ And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them, "Hear, Israel, the ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye do them.

³³ but walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

¹ All the commandments which I command thee this day ye shall keep for to do them, that ye may live and multiply and go and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.

¹ Love the LORD thy God and keep his observances, his ordinances, his laws and his commandments always.

³² Take heed, therefore, that ye do all the commandments and laws, which I set before you this day.

²⁰ But in all things follow righteousness, that thou mayest live and enjoy the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

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

¹⁹ I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live;

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

⁴ Thou hast given straight charge to keep thy commandments:

²⁰ that ye may walk in my commandments, and keep mine ordinances, and do them. That ye may be my people, and I your God.

¹¹ I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.

²¹ Notwithstanding, their sons rebelled against me also: they walked not in my statutes, they kept not my laws to fulfill them, which he that doth shall live in them; neither hallowed they my Sabbath days. Then I made me again to pour out my indignation over them, and to satisfy my wrath upon them in the wilderness.

²⁷ And I will put my spirit in you, and will make that ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them.

²⁴ David my servant shall be their king, and they all shall have one shepherd only. They shall walk in my laws, and my commandments shall they both keep and fulfill.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always even until the end of the world."

⁶ Both were perfect before God, and walked in all the laws and ordinances of the Lord, that no man could find fault with them.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

⁵ Moses describeth the righteousness which cometh of the law, how that the man which doth the things of the law shall live therein.

³² But whatsoever I command you, that take heed ye do: and put nought thereto, nor take ought therefrom.

⁷ Above all things, be strong and harden thyself, to observe and to do according to all the laws which Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn there from neither to the righthand, nor to the left: that thou mayest have understanding in all thou takest in hand.

⁶ Put thou nothing therefore unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found as a liar.

¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of all things: Fear God, and keep his commandments, for that toucheth all men;

¹⁸ For truly I say unto you, till heaven and earth perish, one jot or one tittle of the law shall not escape till all be fulfilled.

⁴³ "Ye have heard how it is said, 'Thou shalt love thine neighbor, and hate thine enemy.'

² "Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? For they wash not their hands, when they eat bread." ³ He answered, and said unto them, "Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, through your traditions? ⁴ For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.' ⁵ But ye say, 'Every man shall say to his father or mother: That which thou desirest of me to help thee with, is given God.' ⁶ And so shall he not honour his father or his mother. And thus have ye made, that the commandment of God is without effect, through your traditions. ⁷ Hypocrites; well prophesied of you Isaiah, saying, ⁸ 'This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, and honoureth me with their lips, howbeit their hearts are far from me: ⁹ But in vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but men's precepts.'"

¹ And the Pharisees came together unto him, and divers of the scribes which came from Jerusalem. ² And when they saw certain of his disciples eat bread with common hands, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they complained. ³ For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands often, eat not; observing the traditions of the elders. ⁴ And when they come from the market, except they wash themselves they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have taken upon them to observe, as the washing of cups and cruses, and of brazen vessels, and of tables. ⁵ Then asked him the Pharisees and scribes, "Why walk not thy disciples according to the traditions of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?" ⁶ He answered and said unto them, "Well prophesied hath Isaiah of you hypocrites as it is written, 'This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.' ⁷ In vain they worship me, teaching doctrines which are nothing but the commandments of men, ⁸ for ye lay the commandment of God apart, and ye observe the traditions of men as the washing of cruses and of cups, and many other such like things ye do." ⁹ And he said unto them, "Well, ye cast aside the commandment of God, to maintain your own traditions. ¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother,' and, 'Whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die for it.' ¹¹ But ye say, 'A man shall say to his father or mother, Corban; which is, that thou desirest of me, to help thee with, is given to God.' ¹² And so ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother, ¹³ making the word of God of none effect through your own traditions which ye have ordained. And many such things ye do."

¹⁵ Brethren, I will speak after the manner of men. Though it be but a man's testament, yet no man despiseth it, or addeth anything thereto when it is once allowed.

¹⁸ I testify unto every man that heareth the words of prophecy of this book: if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. ¹⁹ And if any man shall minish of the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from those things which are written in this book.

¹ And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate, and worshipped their gods, ³ and Israel coupled himself unto Baal-Peor. Then the LORD was angry with Israel, ⁴ and said unto Moses, "Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up unto the LORD against the sun, that the wrath of the LORD may turn away from Israel." ⁵ And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, "Go and slay those men that joined themselves unto Baal- Peor." ⁶ And behold, one of the children of Israel went in against his brethren, and joined himself to a Midianitish woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the multitude of the children of Israel as they were weeping in the door of the tabernacle of witness. ⁷ And when Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest saw it, he rose up out of the company and took a weapon in his hand, ⁸ and went after the man of Israel into the whorehouse, and thrust them through: both the man of Israel and also the woman even through the belly of her. And the plague ceased from the children of Israel. ⁹ And there died in the plague twenty four thousand.

⁶⁴ And among these there was not a man of the number of the children of Israel which Moses and Aaron told in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶ Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD by the reason of Peor: and there followed a plague among the congregation of the LORD.

¹⁷ Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?

²⁸ They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead. ²⁹ Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

¹⁰ I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, and saw their fathers as the first figs in the top of the fig tree. But they are gone to Baalpeor, and run away from me to that shameful Idol, and are become as abominable as their lovers.

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God and serve him and cleave unto him and swear by his name,

⁴ For ye must walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and hearken unto his voice and serve him and cleave unto him.

⁵ But in any wise take exceeding good heed that ye do the commandment and law which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you: which is, that ye love the LORD your God, and walk in his ways and keep his commandments, and cleave unto him, and serve him with all your hearts and all your souls."

⁸ But that ye stick fast unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

¹⁴ Therewith they cried and wept again. Howbeit, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth abode still by her. ¹⁵ Then she said, "See, thy sister-in-law is gone back again unto her people and unto her god: return thou after her." ¹⁶ But Ruth said, "Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from after thee. For whither thou goest, I will go. And where thou dwellest, there I will dwell. Thy people are my people, and thy God is my God. ¹⁷ Where thou diest, I will die, and there will be buried. The LORD do so and so to me, except that death only depart thee and me asunder."

⁸ My soul hangeth upon thee; thy righthand upholdeth me.

⁶ I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. Selah. ⁷ Hear me, O LORD, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint; hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave. ⁸ O let me hear thy loving-kindness betimes in the morning; for in thee is my trust. Show thou me the way that I should walk in; for I lift up my soul unto thee. ⁹ Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies, for I resort unto thee to hide me. ¹⁰ Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee; for thou art my God. Let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness. ¹¹ Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake; and for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

²⁰ So go now my people into thy chamber, and shut the door to thee, and suffer now the twinkling of an eye, till the wrath be overpast.

⁴ and the LORD said unto him, "Go thy way through the city of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that mourn and are sorry for all the abominations that be done therein."

⁶⁷ Then said Jesus to the twelve, "Will ye also go away?" ⁶⁸ Then Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life; ⁶⁹ And we have believed, and known, that thou art Christ, the son of the living God."

²³ Which when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad: and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would continually cleave unto the Lord.

⁹ Let love be without dissimulation. Hate that which is evil, and cleave unto that which is good.

⁴ These are they, which were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These follow the lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from men being the first fruits unto God and to the lamb,

⁴ And I saw seats, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God: which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had taken his mark upon their foreheads, or on their hands: and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

¹ And now hearken, Israel, unto the ordinances and laws which I teach you, for to do them: that ye may live and go and conquer the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.

¹⁹ that thou mayest always put thy trust in the LORD. ²⁰ Have not I warned thee very oft with counsel and learning?

²⁷ For I have kept nothing back: but have showed you all the counsel of God.

²⁸ Let a man therefore examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

³ For first of all, I delivered unto you that which I received: how that Christ died for our sins, agreeing to the scriptures,

¹ Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God. ² Ye remember what commandments we gave you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵ And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a minister, to bear witness of those things which should be spoken afterward.

¹⁹ I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live; ²⁰ in that thou lovest the LORD thy God, hearkenest unto his voice and cleavest unto him. For he is thy life and the length of thy days, that thou mayest dwell upon the earth which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them."

³⁴ And there came of all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all kings of the earth which had heard of his wisdom.

⁶ Then she said to the king, "The word I heard in mine own land of thy deeds and wisdom, is true. ⁷ Howbeit, I believed it not till I came and saw it with mine eyes. And see, the one half was not told me: for thy wisdom and goodness exceedeth the fame which I heard. ⁸ Happy are thy men: and happy are these thy servants, which stand ever before thee and hear thy wisdom. ⁹ And blessed be the LORD thy God which had a lust to thee, to set thee on the seat of Israel, because the LORD loved Israel for ever, and therefore made thee king, to do equity and righteousness."

²⁸ And unto man he said, 'Behold, to fear the LORD is wisdom: and to forsake evil, is understanding.'"

⁷ The law of the LORD is an undefiled law, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, and giveth wisdom unto simple.

¹⁰ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do thereafter. The praise of it endureth forever.

⁹⁸ Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study. ¹⁰⁰ Yea, I am wiser than the aged, for I keep thy commandments.

⁷ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸ The wisdom of him that hath understanding is to take heed unto his way; but the foolishness of the unwise deceiveth.

⁹ therefore shall the wise be confounded. They shall be afraid and taken, for lo, they have cast out the word of the LORD: what wisdom can then be among them?

²⁰ Therefore stood they before the king, which in all wisdom and matters of understanding that he enquired of them, found them ten times better than all the soothsayers and charmers that were in all his realm.

⁹ "O Balteshazzar, thou prince of soothsayers: Forsomuch as I know that thou hast the spirit of the holy gods, and no secret is hid from thee. Tell me therefore, what the vision of my dream that I have seen may signify.

¹¹ For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers: ¹² because that such an abundant spirit, knowledge and wisdom, to expound dreams, open secrets, and to declare hard doubts, was found in him. Yea, even in Daniel, whom the king named Balteshazzar. Let this same Daniel be sent for, and he shall tell what it meaneth." ¹³ Then was Daniel brought before the king. So the king spake unto Daniel, and said, "Art thou that Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah whom my father the king brought out of Jewry? ¹⁴ I have heard speak of thee, that thou hast the spirit of the holy gods, experience and understanding, and that there hath been great wisdom found in thee. ¹⁵ Now have there been brought me, wise and conjuring charmers, to read this writing, and to show me the meaning thereof: but they could not tell me, what this matter signified. ¹⁶ Then heard I say, that thou can expound dark things, and declare hard doubts. Well then, if thou can read this writing, and show me the meaning thereof: thou shalt be clothed with purple, have a chain of gold about thy neck, and rule the third part of my kingdom."

²⁰ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: There shall yet come people, and the inhabiters of many cities. ²¹ And they that dwell in one city, shall go to another, saying, 'Up, let us go, and pray before the LORD; let us seek the LORD of Hosts, I will go with you.' ²² Yea, much people and mighty Heathen shall come and seek the LORD of Hosts at Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. ²³ Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: In that time shall ten men, out of all manner of languages of the Gentiles, take one Jew by the hem of his garment, and say, 'We will go with you, for we have heard that God is among you.'"

¹² Insomuch that all people shall say that ye be blessed, for ye shall be a pleasant land, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

¹⁵ And forasmuch also as thou hast known holy scripture of a child, which is able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

¹³ If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.

⁹ From the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: Lo, the people shall dwell by himself and shall not be reckoned among other nations.

²¹ He beheld no wickedness in Jacob, nor saw Idolatry in Israel: The LORD his God is with him, and the tromp of a king among them.

²⁶ For what is any flesh that he should hear the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire as we have done and should yet live:

²³ And what one people in the earth is like thy people Israel? Which God went and delivered to be his people, and to make him a name, and to show them great and terrible things in the earth, before thy people which thou redeemest to thee out of Egypt, even from the people and from their gods.

¹⁸ The LORD is nigh unto them that are contrite in heart, and will save such as be of a humble spirit.

¹ {To the Chanter, a song of the children of Korah upon Alamoth} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

²⁸ But it is good for me to hold me fast by God, to put my trust in the LORD God, and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Zion.

¹⁸ The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, yea, all such as call upon him faithfully.

¹⁴ He exalteth the horn of his people, all his saints shall praise him: the children of Israel, even the people that serveth him. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

⁴ because thou wast dear in my sight, and because I set by thee, and loved thee. I will give over all men for thee, and deliver up all people for thy sake.

⁶ Seek the LORD, while he may be found, and call upon him while he is nigh.

¹² remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world. ¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, ye which a while ago were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴ For he is our peace, which hath made of both one, and hath broken down the wall in the midst, that was a stop between us, ¹⁵ and hath also put away, through his flesh, the cause of hatred — that is to say, the law of commandments contained in the law written — for to make of twain one new man in himself, so making peace. ¹⁶ And to reconcile both unto God in one body through his cross, and slew hatred thereby: ¹⁷ and came, and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. ¹⁸ For through him we both have an open way in, in one spirit unto the father. ¹⁹ Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, ²⁰ and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets — Jesus Christ being the head cornerstone - ²¹ in whom every building coupled together, groweth unto a holy temple in the Lord, ²² in whom ye also are built together, and made a habitation for God in the spirit.

⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands ye sinners, and purge your hearts ye wavering minded.

¹² And now, Israel, what is it that the LORD thy God requireth of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God and to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul, ¹³ that thou keep the commandments of the LORD and his ordinances which I command thee this day, for thy wealth?

⁷ The law of the LORD is an undefiled law, converting the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, and giveth wisdom unto simple. ⁸ The statutes of the LORD are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the LORD is clean, and endureth forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. ¹¹ Moreover, by them is thy servant taught, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

⁸⁶ All thy commandments are true. They persecute me falsely; O be thou my help.

⁹⁶ I see that all things come to an end, but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

¹²⁷ For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone. ¹²⁸ Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments; and all false ways I utterly abhor.

¹⁹ He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. ²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹² Wherefore the law is holy: and the commandment holy, just, and good. ¹³ Was that, then, which is good made death unto me? God forbid. Nay, sin was death unto me, that it might appear: how that sin by the means of that which is good, had wrought death in me: that sin which is under the commandment, might be out of measure sinful. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin:

¹⁶ For all scripture given by inspiration of God, is profitable to teach, to improve, to amend, and to instruct in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, and prepared unto all good works.

¹⁹ For I know him that he will command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do after right and conscience, that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that he hath promised him."

⁸ And thou shalt show thy son at that time, saying, 'This is done, because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came out of Egypt.' ⁹ Therefore it shall be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD brought thee out of Egypt;

¹⁴ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' Thou shalt say unto him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ¹⁵ And when Pharaoh was loath to let us go, the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: as well the firstborn of men as of beasts. And therefore I sacrifice unto the LORD all the males that open the matrix, but all the firstborn of my children I must redeem.' ¹⁶ And this shall be as a token in thine hand, and as a thing hanged up between thine eyes: because the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand."

¹⁵ Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the fire;

²³ Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.

⁷ And thou shalt whet them on thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou art at home in thine house and as thou walkest by the way; and when thou liest down and when thou risest up.

¹⁹ and teach them your children: so that thou talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up:

²⁹ The secrets pertain unto the LORD our God and the things that are opened pertain unto us and our children forever, that we do all the words of this law.

¹⁹ Now, therefore, write ye this song, and teach it the children of Israel and put it in their mouths — that this song may be my witness unto the children of Israel.

⁴⁶ then he said unto them, "Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify unto you this day: that ye command them unto your children, to observe and do all the words of this law.

¹⁸ And whosoever disobey thy mouth, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, let him die: Only be strong and of good courage."

⁶ that this may be a sign among you. And when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What mean ye with these stones?' ⁷ Then say unto them, 'How that the water of Jordan divided at the presence of the ark of the covenant of the LORD: even while it went over Jordan, the water of Jordan divided.' And these stones shall be a memorial unto the children of Israel forever."

²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask you in time to come saying, 'What mean these stones?'

¹¹ Come, ye children, and hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. ¹² What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days? ¹³ Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile. ¹⁴ Eschew evil, and do good; seek peace, and ensue it. ¹⁵ For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. ¹⁶ But the face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.

¹⁸ Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

³ which we have heard and known, and such as our fathers have told us, ⁴ that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. ⁵ He made a covenant with Jacob, and gave Israel a law, which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children, ⁶ that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same; ⁷ that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments. ⁸ And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not true toward God.

¹¹ Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against thee.

⁸ My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

¹ My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments. ² For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace. ³ Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart.

²¹ My son, let not these things depart from thine eyes, but keep my law and my counsel:

¹ Hear, O ye children, the fatherly exhortation, and take good heed, that ye may learn wisdom. ² Yea I shall give you a good reward, if ye will not forsake my law. ³ For when I myself was my father's dear son, and tenderly beloved of my mother, ⁴ he taught me also, saying, "Let thine heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live. ⁵ Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them. ⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. ⁷ The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding. ⁸ Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour. ⁹ She shall make thee a gracious head, and garnish thee with the crown of glory." ¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my words, that the years of thy life may be many. ¹¹ I will show thee the way of wisdom, and lead thee in the right paths. ¹² So that if thou goest therein, there shall no straitness hinder thee: and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall. ¹³ Take fast hold of doctrine, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

²⁰ My son, mark my words, and incline thine ear unto my sayings. ²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them even in the midst of thine heart. ²² For they are life unto all those that find them, and health unto all their bodies. ²³ Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments by thee.

²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes have pleasure in my ways.

¹⁹ but the living, yea the living acknowledge thee, like as I do this day. The father telleth his children of thy faithfulness.

¹⁸ Take heed therefore how ye hear. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given: And whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken, even that same which he supposeth that he hath."

⁴ And ye fathers, move not your children to wrath: but bring them up with the nurture and information of the Lord.

¹ Wherefore we ought to give the more heed to the things which we have heard, lest we perish.

³ how shall we escape if we despise so great salvation? Which at the first began to be preached of the Lord himself, and afterward was confirmed unto us ward, by them that heard it;

²² Thou seest how that faith wrought within his deeds, and through the deeds was the faith made perfect.

³ Remember, therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you shalt not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

⁹ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Lo, I will come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I talk with thee, and also believe thee forever." And Moses showed the words of the people unto the LORD.

¹⁶ And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid.

¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked.

²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not."

² The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

²⁹ Oh that they had such a heart with them to fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might go well with them and with their children forever.

²³ And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he hath chosen to make his name dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine and of thine oil, and the firstborn of thine oxen and of thy flock that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

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

¹² Gather the people together: both men, women and children and the strangers that are in thy cities, that they may hear, learn and fear the LORD your God, and be diligent to keep all the words of this law, ¹³ and that their children which know nothing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."

²⁴ Only fear you the LORD and serve him truly with all your hearts: for he hath done great things for you.

⁵⁰ And his mercy is always on them that fear him, throughout all generations.

¹⁸ For ye are not come unto the mount that can be touched, and unto burning fire, nor yet to mist and darkness and tempest of weather, ¹⁹ neither unto the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words: which voice they that heard it, wished away, that the communication should not be spoken to them.

²⁵ See that ye despise not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not which refused him that spake on earth; Much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

⁵ And a voice came out of the seat, saying, "Praise our Lord God all ye that are his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great."

¹⁶ And the third day in the morning there was thunder, and lightning and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the horn waxed exceeding loud, and all the people that was in the host was afraid. ¹⁷ And Moses brought the people out of the tents to meet with God, and they stood under the hill. ¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful.

¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. ¹⁹ And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses, "Talk thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God talk with us, lest we die."

²³ But as soon as ye heard the voice out of the darkness and saw the hill burn with fire, ye came unto me all the heads of your tribes and your elders:

²² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, 'Ye have seen how that I have talked with you from out of heaven.

⁸ Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the LORD, and not through riddles. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

³³ that a nation hath heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as thou hast heard, and yet lived?

³⁶ Out of heaven he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire.

⁴ The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire.

²² These words the LORD spake unto all your multitude in the mount out of the fire, cloud and darkness, with a loud voice, and added no more thereto, and wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.

¹² And after the earthquake, came fire. But the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire, came a small still voice. ¹³ And when Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his mantle, and went out and stood in the mouth of the cave. And see, there came a voice unto him and said, "What doest thou here Elijah?"

²¹ and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."

³ A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.

⁶ The same voice spake, "Now cry." And I said, "What shall I cry?" Then spake it, "That all flesh is grass, and that all the beauty thereof, is as the flower of the field.

¹⁸ "To whom then will ye liken God? Or what similitude will ye set up unto him?

³ This is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, which sayeth, "The voice of a crier in wilderness, 'Prepare the Lord's way and make his paths straight.'"

¹⁷ And, lo, there came a voice from heaven, saying, "This is that, my beloved son, in whom is my delight."

⁵ While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud shadowed them. And behold, there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, "This is my dear son, in whom I delight; hear him."

²⁸ Father, glorify thy name." Then came there a voice from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again." ²⁹ Then said the people that stood by and heard, "It thundereth." Others said, "An angel spake to him." ³⁰ Jesus answered and said, "This voice came not because of me: but for your sakes.

¹⁵ which is the image of the invisible God, first begotten of all creatures:

¹⁷ Even then, verily, when he received of God the father honour and glory, and when there came such a voice to him from that excellent glory. "This is my dear beloved son, in whom I have delight" - ¹⁸ This voice we heard when it came from heaven, being with him in the holy mount.

⁵ Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine.

¹² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Come up to me in to the hill and be there, and I will give thee tables of stone and a law and commandments, which I have written to teach them."

¹⁷ And the fashion of the glory of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of Israel. ¹⁸ And Moses went into the mountain. And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

¹⁸ And when the LORD had made an end of communing with Moses upon the mount Sinai, he gave him two tables of witness: which were of stone and written with the finger of God.

²⁸ And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights, and neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote in the tables the words of the covenant: even ten verses.

¹ And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them, "Hear, Israel, the ordinances and laws which I speak in thine ears this day, and learn them and take heed that ye do them. ² The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. ³ The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us: we are they, which are all here alive this day. ⁴ The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the fire. ⁵ And I stood between the LORD and you the same time, to show you the saying of the LORD. For ye were afraid of the fire and therefore went not up into the mount. And he said, ⁶ 'I am the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt the house of bondage. ⁷ Thou shalt have therefore none other gods in my presence. ⁸ 'Thou shalt make thee no graven image of any manner likeness that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth. ⁹ Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me: ¹⁰ and show mercy upon thousands among 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 that thou sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³ Six days thou shalt labour and do all that thou hast to do, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy servant, nor thy maid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵ And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and how that the LORD God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm. For which cause the LORD thy God commandeth thee to keep the Sabbath day. ¹⁶ 'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ¹⁷ 'Thou shalt not kill. ¹⁸ 'Thou shalt not break wedlock. ¹⁹ 'Thou shalt not steal. ²⁰ 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ²¹ 'Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbour's wife: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, field, servant, maid, ox, ass nor ought that is thy neighbour's.'

⁹ after that I was gone up into the mount, to fetch the tables of stone, the tables of covenant which the LORD made with you. And I abode in the hill forty days and forty nights and neither ate bread nor drank water. ¹⁰ And the LORD delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to all the words which the LORD said unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together. ¹¹ And when the forty days and forty nights were ended, the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant,

¹ In the same season the LORD said unto me, 'Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an Ark of wood, ² and I will write in the table, the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.' ³ And I made an ark of sethim-wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mountain; and the two tables in mine hand. ⁴ And he wrote in the tables according to the first, writing the ten verses which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together — and gave them unto me. ⁵ And I departed and came down from the hill and put the tables in the ark which I had made: and there they remained, as the LORD commanded me.

⁷ If the ministration of death through the letters figured in stones was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not behold the face of Moses for the glory of countenance — which glory nevertheless is done away -

⁴ which had the golden censer, and the ark of the testament overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot with manna, and Aaron's rod that sprung, and the tables of the testament.

¹⁹ For when all the commandments were read of Moses unto all the people, he took the blood of calves, and of goats, with water and purple wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, ²⁰ saying, "This is the blood of the testament, which God hath appointed unto you."

⁴⁴ and gave them the lands of the Heathen; where they took the labours of the people in possession, ⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹ The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ² "Thou son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, speak against the Sanctuary, and prophesy against the land of Israel, say to the land of Israel, ³ 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will upon thee, and will draw my sword out of the sheath, and root out of thee both the righteous and the wicked. ⁴ Seeing then that I will root out of thee both the righteous and wicked, therefore shall my sword go out of his sheath against all flesh from the north to the south: ⁵ that all flesh may know how that I the LORD have drawn my sword out of the sheath, and it shall not be put in again. ⁶ Mourn therefore, O thou son of man, that thy loins crack withal; yea mourn bitterly for them. ⁷ And if they say, 'Wherefore mournest thou?' Then tell them, 'For the tidings that cometh, at the which all hearts shall melt, all hands shall be letten down, all stomachs shall faint, and all knees shall wax feeble.' Behold, it cometh, and shall be fulfilled, sayeth the LORD God.'" ⁸ Again, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ⁹ "Thou son of man, prophesy and speak, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: speak, the sword is sharpened and well scoured. ¹⁰ Sharpened is it for the slaughter, and scoured that it may be bright. O, the destroying staff of my son shall bring down all wood. ¹¹ He hath put his sword to the dighting, that good hold may be taken of it. This sword is sharpened and dight, that it may be given into the hand of the manslayer.' ¹² Cry, O thou son of man, and howl: for this sword shall smite my people, and all the rulers in Israel, which with my people shall be slain down to the ground through this sword. Smite therefore thou upon thy thigh, for it is gone forth to make a trial. ¹³ And what a trial shall this be, when even my scepter shall be reproved? That shall not be, sayeth the LORD God. ¹⁴ Prophesy, thou son of man, and smite thine hands together: make the sword two edged, yea make it three edged, that manslayer's sword, that sword of the great slaughter, which shall smite them even in their privy chambers: ¹⁵ to make them abashed and faint at the hearts, and in all gates to make some of them fall. O how bright and sharp is it, how well dight and mete for the slaughter. ¹⁶ Get thee to some place alone, either upon the righthand or on the left, whithersoever thy face turneth. ¹⁷ I will smite my hands together also and satisfy my wrathful indignation: Even I the LORD have said it." ¹⁸ The word of the LORD came yet unto me again saying, ¹⁹ "Thou son of man, make thee two streets, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Both these streets shall go out of one land. He shall set him up a place; at the head of the street shall he choose him out a corner. ²⁰ Make thee a street, that the sword may come toward Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to the strong city of Jerusalem. ²¹ For the king of Babylon shall stand in the turning of the way, at the head of the two trees: to ask counsel at the soothsayers, casting the lots with his arrows; to ask counsel at the Idols, and to look in the liver. ²² But the soothsaying shall point to the right side upon Jerusalem, that he may set men of war, to smite it with a great noise, to cry out Alarum, to set battle rams against the gates, to grave up ditches, and to make bulwarks. ²³ Nevertheless, as for the soothsaying, they shall hold it but for vanity; even as though a jest were told them. Yea and they themselves remember their wickedness, so that by right they must be taken and won.

⁹ Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.

¹² And the LORD spake unto you out of the fire and ye heard the voice of the words; But saw no image, save heard a voice only.

¹¹ Take good heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love the LORD your God.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever. ¹⁰ Take heed now, for the LORD hath chosen thee, to build a house of thy sanctuary. Be strong and do it."

⁹ {Beth} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Even by ruling himself after thy word.

²³ Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

²⁷ Turn not aside, neither to the righthand nor to the left; but withhold thy foot from evil.

²¹ Thus the LORD commandeth: Take heed for your lives, that ye carry no burden upon you in the Sabbath, to bring it through the gates of Jerusalem:

¹⁵ So did not the one, and yet had he an excellent spirit. What did then the one? He sought the seed promised of God. Therefore look well to your spirit, and let no man despise the wife of his youth.

⁴ in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest should shine unto them the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, which is the image of God. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus to be the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For it is God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness, which hath shined in our hearts, for to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

³ Which son, being the brightness of his glory, and very image of his substance, bearing up all things with the word of his power, hath in his own person purged our sins, and is sitten on the righthand of the majesty on high,

⁴ "Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth. ⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

⁷ Then the LORD said unto Moses, "Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,

⁸ Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day? ⁹ Take heed to thyself therefore only and keep thy soul diligently, that thou forget not the things which thine eyes have seen, and that they depart not out of thine heart, all the days of thine life: but teach them thy sons, and thy son's sons.

²⁵ If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him.

⁸ 'Thou shalt make thee no graven image of any manner likeness that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. ²⁰ Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf, that eateth hay.

²⁴ God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and truth."

²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.

⁴ There accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Beroea: And of Thessalonica, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy: And out of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. ⁵ These went before, and tarried us at Troas.

²² When they counted themselves wise, they became fools ²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents. ²⁴ Wherefore God, likewise, gave them up unto their hearts' lusts, unto uncleanness to defile their own bodies between themselves:

¹⁷ So then unto God, King everlasting, immortal, invisible, and wise only, be honour and praise for ever and ever. Amen.

²³ and turned the glory of the immortal God, unto the similitude of the image: of mortal man, and of birds, and four footed beasts and of serpents.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day, and a lesser light to rule the night; and he made stars also. ¹⁷ And God put them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth, ¹⁸ and to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light from darkness. And God saw that it was good:

¹ Thus was heaven and earth finished with all their apparel:

³ so that they have gone and served strange gods and worshipped them, whether it be the sun or moon or anything contained in heaven which I forbade,

¹² Then spake Joshua unto the LORD, the day when the LORD delivered the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of all Israel, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon." ¹³ And the sun abode, and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the righteous, how that the sun abode in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down by the space of a whole day?

¹⁶ But they left the commandments of the LORD their God and made them Images of metal, even two calves: and made groves and bowed themselves unto all the Host of heaven, and served Baal.

³ And he went and built the hill altars again, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars to Baal and made groves, as did Ahab king of Israel. And he bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them.

⁴ And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the inferior priests and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD, all the vessels that were made for Baal and for the grove and for all the host of heaven. And he burnt them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried the ashes of them into Bethel. ⁵ And he put down the Chemarims which the kings of Judah had set to burn offerings in the hill altars in the cities of Judah round about Jerusalem and also them that burnt sacrifices unto Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

¹¹ He put down the horses that the kings of Israel had given to the son at the entering of the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain which was the ruler of the suburbs, and burnt the chariots of the sun with fire.

⁶ LORD, thou alone hast made heaven, and the heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the sea and all that is therein: thou givest life unto all, and the host of heaven bow themselves unto thee.

²⁶ Did I ever greatly regard the rising of the sun? Or, had I the going down of the moon in great reputation? ²⁷ Hath my heart meddled privily with any deceit? Or, did I ever kiss mine own hand? ²⁸ That were a wickedness worth to be punished, for then should I have denied the God that is above.

¹⁶ The day is thine. The night is thine. Thou hast prepared the lights and the sun. ¹⁷ Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; thou hast made both summer and winter.

⁷ Which hath made great lights! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁸ The sun to rule the day! For his mercy endureth forever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to govern the night! For his mercy endureth forever.

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

² and laid against the Sun, the Moon and all the heavenly host: whom they loved, whom they served, whom they ran after, whom they sought and worshipped. They shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lie upon the earth, to their shame and despising.

¹³ For the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah are defiled, like as Tophet, because of all the houses; in whose parlors they did sacrifice unto all the host of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto strange gods.'"

³⁵ "Thus sayeth the LORD which gave the sun to be a light for the day, and the moon and stars to shine in the night: which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce: his name is the LORD of Hosts.

²⁵ Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: If I have made no covenant with day and night, and given no statute unto heaven and earth;

¹⁶ And so he brought me into the inward court of the LORD's house. And behold, at the port of the LORD's house, betwixt the fore entry and the altar, there were five and twenty men that turned their backs on the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, and these worshiped the sun.

²⁵ O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness? ²⁶ Yet have ye set up tabernacles to your Moloch, and images of your Idols, yea and the star of your god Rempha: figures which ye made to worship them.

⁵ yea, and such as upon their house-tops worship and bow themselves unto the host of heaven: which swear by the LORD, and by their Milcom also:

⁴⁵ that ye may be the children of your father that is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to arise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth his rain on the just and unjust.

⁴² Then God turned himself, and gave them up, that they should worship the stars of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, 'O ye of the house of Israel: gave ye to me sacrifices and meat offerings by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

²⁵ which turned his truth unto a lie, and worshipped and served the creatures more than the creator, which is blessed forever, Amen.

⁵ Now therefore if ye will hear my voice and keep mine covenant: ye shall be mine own above all nations, for all the earth is mine. ⁶ Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a holy people.' These are the words which thou shalt say unto the children of Israel."

²⁶ But I made intercession unto the LORD and said, 'O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered through thy greatness and which thou hast brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

²⁹ Moreover, they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out with thy mighty power and with thy stretched out arm.'

⁹ For the LORD's part is his folk, and Israel is the portion of his inheritance.

⁵¹ For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron.

⁹ O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance; feed them, and set them up forever.

¹² Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD Jehovah; and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his inheritance.

⁴ For why? The LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his own possession.

¹⁷ O LORD wherefore hast thou led us out of thy way? Wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts, that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again, for thy servants' sake that are of the generation of thine heritage. ¹⁸ Thy people hath had but little of thy Sanctuary in possession, for our enemies have taken it in:

⁴ which I commanded unto your fathers; what time as I brought them out of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Be obedient unto my voice, and do according to all that I commanded you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God,

¹⁸ and lighten the eyes of your minds, that ye might know what thing that hope is, whereunto he hath called you, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is upon the saints,

¹⁴ which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

⁹ But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,

¹² And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, "Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them."

³⁷ Likewise the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, 'Thou also shalt not go in thither.

²⁶ But the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and would not hear me, but said unto me, 'Be content, and speak henceforth no more unto me of this matter;

² and said unto them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old this day, and can no more go out and in. Also, the LORD hath said unto me, 'Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.'

³² They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that he punished Moses for their sakes, ³³ because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.

²⁵ let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan; that goodly high country, and Lebanon.'

²⁷ Get thee up into the top of Pisgah and lift up thine eyes west, north, south and east, and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

²¹ And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD: 'Because thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee, ²² but camest back again and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place in which he bade that thou shouldest eat no bread nor drink water: therefore thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.'"

² 'You only have I accepted from all the generations of the earth: therefore will I visit you in all your wickednesses.

⁶ For whom the Lord loveth, him he chasteneth: yea, and he scourgeth every son that he receiveth." ⁷ If ye shall endure chastening, God offereth himself unto you, as unto sons. What son is that whom the father chasteneth not? ⁸ If ye be not under correction — whereof all are partakers — then are ye bastards and not sons. ⁹ Moreover, seeing we had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: should we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spiritual gifts that we might live? ¹⁰ And they verily for a few days nurtured us after their own pleasure; but he learneth us unto that which is profitable, that we might receive of his holiness.

¹³ Notwithstanding, I think it mete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; ¹⁴ forasmuch as I am sure how that the time is at hand that I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. ¹⁵ I will enforce, therefore, that on every side ye might have wherewith to stir up the remembrance of these things after my departing.

¹⁵ Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the fire; ¹⁶ lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman

¹² Then beware, lest thou forget the LORD which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage.

⁹ And Moses, with the priests the Levites, spake unto all Israel, saying, "Take heed and hear, Israel: this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.

²⁵ And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

²⁰ For when I have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, then they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my covenant.

¹⁶ when ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: and have gone and served strange gods, and bowed yourselves to them. Then shall the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you, and ye shall perish quickly, from off the good land which he hath given you."

¹⁵ Think on his covenant ever, and on the word he commanded to a thousand generations.

⁵ For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.

²² How long wilt thou go astray, O thou shrinking daughter? For the LORD will work a new thing upon earth: A woman shall compass a man.

⁵⁹ For thus sayeth the LORD God: I should, by right, deal with thee, as thou hast done. Thou hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant.

⁴ And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "Take heed that no man deceive you;

¹⁵ Wherefore he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness. For no man's life standeth in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

⁸ And he said, "Take heed, that ye be not deceived. For many will come in my name, saying of themselves, 'I am he.' And the time draweth near. Follow ye not them, therefore.

¹² Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

⁵ See that thou neither bow thyself unto them neither serve them: for I, the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, and visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

¹⁷ And the fashion of the glory of the LORD was like consuming fire on the top of the hill in the sight of the children of Israel.

¹⁴ for thou shalt worship no strange god. For the LORD is called jealous, because he is a jealous God:

⁹ Thou shalt neither bow thyself unto them nor serve them, for I the LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the wickedness of the fathers upon the children, even in the third and the fourth generation, among them that hate me:

¹⁵ For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you — lest the wrath of the LORD thy God wax hot upon thee and destroy thee from the earth.

³ Therefore shalt thou know this day, that the LORD thy God goeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

²⁰ "And so the LORD will not be merciful unto him, but then the wrath of the LORD and his jealousy, smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book light upon him, and the LORD do out his name from under heaven,

¹⁶ They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him.

²¹ They have angered me with that which is no god; and provoked me with their vanities. And I, again, will anger them with them which are no people, and will provoke them with a foolish nation. ²² For fire is kindled in my wrath: and shall burn unto the bottom of hell; and shall consume the earth with her increase; and set afire the bottoms of the mountains.

⁹ Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

⁵⁸ And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

²⁷ Behold, the glory of the LORD shall come from far, his face shall burn, that no man shall be able to abide it, his lips shall wag for very indignation, and his tongue shall be as a consuming fire.

³³ For the fire of pain is ordained from the beginning: yea, even for kings it is prepared. This hath the LORD set in the deep, and made it wide: the burning whereof is fire and much wood. The breath of the LORD, which is a river of brimstone, doth kindle it.

¹⁴ The sinners at Zion are afraid, and a sudden fearfulness is come upon the hypocrites. "What is he among us," say they, "that will dwell by that consuming fire? Which of us may abide that everlasting heat?"

⁸ Even I am the LORD, and this is my name: and my glory will I give to none other, neither mine honour to graven images.

¹² O house of David, for thus sayeth the LORD: Minister righteousness, and that soon. Deliver the oppressed from violent power: before my terrible wrath break out like a fire, and burn so that no man may quench it, because of the wickedness of your imaginations. ¹³ Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will come upon you that dwell in the valleys, rocks and fields, and say: Tush, who will make us afraid? Or, who will come into our houses? ¹⁴ For I will visit you, sayeth the LORD, because of the wickedness of your inventions, and will kindle such a fire in your wood, as shall consume all that is about you.'"

² The LORD is a jealous God, and a taker of vengeance: yea, a taker of vengeance is the LORD, and wrathful. The LORD taketh vengeance of his enemies, and reserveth displeasure for his adversaries.

⁶ Who may endure before his wrath? Or who is able to abide his grim displeasure? His anger taketh on like fire, and the hard rocks burst in sunder before him.

¹⁸ Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

⁸ Therefore ye shall wait upon me, sayeth the LORD, until the time that I stand up: for I am determined, to gather the people and to bring the kingdoms together, that I may pour out mine anger, yea all my wrathful displeasure upon them. For all the world shall be consumed with the fire of my jealousy.

²² Either, shall we provoke the Lord? Or are we stronger than he?

²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

¹⁶ lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman

¹⁶ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Behold, thou must sleep with thy fathers, and this people will go a whoring after strange gods of the land whither they go and will forsake me and break the covenant which I have made with them. ¹⁷ And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they will say, 'Because our God is not among us, ¹⁸ these tribulations are come upon us.' But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods.

²⁹ For I am sure that after my death, they will utterly mar themselves and turn from the way which I commanded you, and tribulation will come upon you in the latter days, when ye have wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD to provoke him with the works of your hands."

⁸ And Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died when he was a hundred and ten years old: ⁹ whom they buried in the coasts of his inheritance: even in Timnathserah in mount Ephraim on the north side of the hill Gaash. ¹⁰ And even so, all that generation were put unto their fathers. And there arose another generation after them which neither knew the LORD, nor yet the works which he did unto Israel. ¹¹ And then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, ¹² and forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, even of the gods of the nations that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and angered the LORD. ¹³ And so they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ Wherefore the LORD waxed angry with Israel, and delivered them unto the hands of raveners to spoil them and sold them into the hands of their enemies round about them, so that they had no power any longer to stand before their enemies. ¹⁵ But unto whatsoever thing they went, the hand of the LORD was upon them with evil luck, even as the LORD promised them, and as he sware unto them. And they were sore vexed.

¹⁷ And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters in fire, and used witchcraft and enchantments, and were sold to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, for to anger him. ¹⁸ Wherefore the LORD was exceeding wroth with Israel and put them out of his sight, that there was left but the tribe of Judah only. ¹⁹ And thereto Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the ordinances of Israel which they had made.

² And he did that displeased the LORD, even after the abominations of the Heathen, which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

¹⁴ And though I leave a remnant of mine inheritance, yet I will deliver them into the hands of them that hate them, and they shall be robbed and spoiled of all their enemies: ¹⁵ even because they have done wickedly and have angered me, since the time their fathers came out of Egypt unto this day." ¹⁶ And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

¹² And he did that displeased the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet at the mouth of the LORD. ¹³ And thereto he rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar which had received an oath of him by God, and was too stiff necked and too hard hearted to turn unto the LORD God of Israel. ¹⁴ Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, sending them betimes: for he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. ¹⁶ But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.

⁹ They be gone too far, and have destroyed themselves, like as they did afore time at Gibeah. Therefore their wickedness shall be remembered, and their sins punished.

²⁸ lest that the land spew you out when ye have defiled it, as it spewed out the nations that were there before you.

³¹ And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your sanctuaries unto nought, and will not smell the savours of your sweet odours. ³² "'And I will bring the land unto a wilderness: so that your enemies which dwell therein shall wonder at it. ³³ And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate. ³⁴ Then the land shall rejoice in her Sabbaths, as long as it lieth void and ye in your enemies' land: even then shall the land keep holy day and rejoice in her Sabbaths. ³⁵ And as long as it lieth void it shall rest, for that it could not rest in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.

²⁸ And the LORD cast them out of their land in anger, wrath and great furiousness, and cast them into a strange land, as it is come to pass this day.'

¹⁸ I pronounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go and possess it. ¹⁹ I take heaven and earth this day to record over you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. But choose life, that thou and thy seed may live;

²⁸ Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them.

¹ Hearken, o ye heavens; I will speak. And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

² Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me.

¹¹ Then spake I, "LORD, how long?" And he answered, "Until the cities be utterly without inhabiters, and the houses without men, till the land be also desolate, and lie unbuilded.

¹ Behold, the LORD shall waste and plague the world, he shall make the face of the earth desolate, and scatter abroad the inhabiters thereof. ² Then shall the priest be as the people, the master as the servant, the dame like the maid, the seller like the buyer, he that lendeth upon usury, like him that borroweth upon usury, the creditor as the debtor. ³ Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself.

¹² Be astonished, O ye heavens, be afraid, and abashed at such a thing, sayeth the LORD.

¹⁹ Hear thou earth also: behold, I will cause a plague come upon this people, even the fruit of their own imaginations. For they have not been obedient unto my words and to my law, but abhorred them.

²⁹ O thou earth, earth, earth: hear the word of the LORD!

²² Insomuch that the LORD might no longer suffer the wickedness of your inventions, and the abominable things which ye did? Is not your land desolate and void; yea, and abhorred, so that no man dwelleth therein any more, as it is come to pass this day?

²⁸ For I will make the land desolate and waste, and the pomp of her strength shall come to an end. The mountains in Israel shall be so waste that no man shall travel thereby.

⁴ Therefore, hear the word of the LORD God, O ye mountains of Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the mountains, and hills; valleys and dales; to the void wilderness and desolate cities, which are spoiled and had in derision on every side among the residue of the Heathen.

² Hear all ye people, mark this well, O earth, and all that therein is: Yea, the LORD God himself be witness among you, even the Lord from his holy temple.

² O hear the punishment of the LORD, ye mountains, and ye mighty foundations of the earth: for the LORD will reprove his people, and reason with Israel.

²⁴ And they shall fall on the edge of the sword. And they shall be led captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden underfoot of the gentiles, until the time of the gentiles be fulfilled.

³³ And I will straw you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you, and your land shall be waste, and your cities desolate.

⁶² And ye shall be left few in number, wheretofore ye were as the stars of heaven in multitude: because thou wouldest not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. ⁶³ "And as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it. ⁶⁴ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone.

³ And they said unto me, "The remnant of the captivity are there in the land in great misfortune and rebuke. The walls of Jerusalem are broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire."

⁸ Yet call to remembrance the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, and saidest, 'If ye transgress, then will I scatter you abroad among the nations. ⁹ But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments and do them: though ye were cast out unto the uttermost part of heaven, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you from thence, even unto the place that I have chosen for my name to dwell there.'

¹⁵ So when I have scattered them among the Heathen, and strawed them in the lands, they shall know that I am the LORD.

²⁶ There is Meshech also and Tubal, and their people, and their graves round about. These all are among the uncircumcised, and them that be slain with the sword, because afore time they made the land of the living afraid.

³⁶ The LORD shall bring both thee and thy king which thou hast set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there thou shalt serve strange gods: even wood and stone.

⁶⁴ And the LORD shall scatter thee among all nations from the one end of the world unto the other, and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known: even wood and stone.

¹⁹ Now hear therefore, my lord king, the words of thy servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, he shall smell the savour of sacrifice. But and if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD. For they have cast me out from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Hence and go serve other gods.'

⁴ Their images are but silver and gold, even the work of men's hands. ⁵ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ⁶ They have ears, and hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. ⁷ They have hands, and handle not; feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. ⁸ They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.

¹⁵ As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands. ¹⁶ They have mouths, and speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. ¹⁷ They have ears, and yet they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths. ¹⁸ They that make them are like unto them; and so are all they that put their trust in them.

⁹ All carvers of Images are but vain, and the carved images that they love can do no good. They must bear record themselves, that seeing they can neither see nor understand they shall be confounded.

²⁰ Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?

⁷ Yet must he be taken on men's shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stand and not move. Alas that men should cry unto him, which giveth no answer; and delivereth not the man that calleth upon him, from his trouble.

³ Yea all the customs and laws of the Gentiles are nothing but vanity. They hew down a tree in the wood with the hands of the workman, and fashion it with the axe;

⁹ namely, wood; silver, which is brought out of Tarshish, and beaten to plates; and gold from Ophir, a work that is made with the hand of the craftsman and the caster, clothed with yellow silk and scarlet: even so is the work of their wise men altogether.

¹³ Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye and your fathers know not: and there shall ye serve strange gods day and night, there will I show you no favour.

³² And as for the thing that ye go about, it shall not come to pass, whereas ye say, 'We will be as the Heathen, and do as other people in the land: wood and stone will we worship.'

³⁹ Go now then, sayeth the LORD God: ye house of Israel, cast away, and destroy every man his Idols. Then shall ye hear me, and no more blaspheme my holy name with your offerings and Idols.

³⁹ And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their unrighteousness, even in their enemies' land, and also in the misdeeds of their fathers shall they consume. ⁴⁰ And they shall confess their misdeeds and the misdeeds of their fathers; in their trespasses which they have trespassed against me, and for that also that they have walked contrary unto me. ⁴¹ Therefore I also will walk contrary unto them, and will bring them into the land of their enemies. And then at the least way their uncircumcised hearts shall be tamed, and then they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds. ⁴² "'And I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham, and will think on the land.

¹ When all these words are come upon thee, whether it be the blessing or the curse which I have set before thee; yet if thou turn unto thine heart among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath thrust thee, ² and come again unto the LORD thy God and hearken unto his voice according to all that I command thee this day — both thou and thy children with all thine heart and all thy soul - ³ then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and go and fetch thee again from all the nations, among which the LORD thy God shall have scattered thee.

¹⁰ If thou hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which are written in the book of this law, if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart and all thy soul.

⁴⁷ yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed,' ⁴⁸ and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:

³¹ But Jehu cared not to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam which made Israel sin.

³ And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD that they should walk after the LORD, and keep his commandments and his witnesses and his ordinances with all their hearts and all their souls, and make good the words of the said covenant that were written in the foresaid book. And all the people consented to the covenant.

⁴ And in their tribulation they shall turn unto the LORD God of Israel and shall seek him, and he shall be found of them.

¹² And they made a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their hearts and all their souls:

¹⁵ And all Judah rejoiced in the oath, for they had sworn with all their hearts, and sought him with all their lust, and he was found of them. And the LORD gave them rest round about.

²¹ And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.

⁹ But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments and do them: though ye were cast out unto the uttermost part of heaven, yet will I gather you from thence, and will bring you from thence, even unto the place that I have chosen for my name to dwell there.'

² Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart;

¹⁰ With my whole heart do I seek thee; O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments.

⁵⁸ I make my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart; O be merciful unto me, according unto thy word.

¹⁴⁵ {Kuf} I call with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD. I will keep thy statutes.

⁶ Seek the LORD, while he may be found, and call upon him while he is nigh. ⁷ Let the ungodly man forsake his ways and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the LORD: so shall he be merciful unto him; and to our God, for he is ready to forgive.

¹⁰ Nevertheless, her unfaithful sister Judah is not turned unto me again with her whole heart, but feignedly, sayeth the LORD."

¹² and therefore go preach these words toward the north, and say, 'Thou shrinking Israel, turn again, sayeth the LORD; and I will not turn my face from you, for I am merciful, sayeth the LORD. And I will not always bear displeasure against thee: ¹³ but on this condition, that thou know thy great blasphemy: Namely, that thou hast unfaithfully forsaken the LORD thy God, and hast made thyself partaker of strange gods under all green trees, but hast had no will to hear my voice, sayeth the LORD. ¹⁴ O ye shrinking children, turn again, sayeth the LORD: and I will be married with you. For I will take one out of the city, and two out of one generation from among you, and bring you out of Zion:

¹² Ye shall cry unto me, ye shall go and call upon me, and I shall hear you. ¹³ Ye shall seek me, and find me: Yea, if so be that ye seek me with your whole heart, ¹⁴ I will be found of you, sayeth the LORD. And will deliver you out of prison, and gather you together again out of all places, wherein I have scattered you, sayeth the LORD: and will bring you again to the same place, from whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

¹² And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation.

¹ And Jacob called for his sons and said, "Come together, that I may tell you what shall happen you in the last days.

⁸ And Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had happened them by the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

²⁰ And he looked on Amalek and began his parable, and said, "Amalek is the first of the nations, but his latter end shall perish utterly."

¹⁷ And then my wrath will wax hot against them, and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them, and they shall be consumed. And when much adversity and tribulation is come upon them, then they will say, 'Because our God is not among us,

⁴⁶ And finally, when they shall have sinned against thee — for there is no man that sinneth not — and thou art angry with them and hast delivered them to their enemies, that they be carried away prisoners unto the land of their enemies, whether far or near; ⁴⁷ yet if they turn again unto their hearts in the land where they be in captivity, and return and pray unto thee in the land of them that hold them captive, saying, 'We have sinned and have done wickedly and have trespassed,' ⁴⁸ and so turn again unto thee with all their hearts and all their souls in the land of their enemies which hold them captive, and pray unto thee, toward the land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name: ⁴⁹ then hear thou their prayer and supplication up to heaven thy dwelling place, and judge their causes, ⁵⁰ and be merciful unto thy people that have sinned against thee, and unto all their trespass that they have trespassed against thee, and get them favour in the sight of them that hold them captive that they may have compassion on them. ⁵¹ For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron. ⁵² And let thine eyes be open unto the prayer of thy servant and unto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them, in all that they call unto thee for. ⁵³ For thou didst separate them to be thine inheritance, above all the nations of the earth, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah."

³⁶ If they shall sin against thee - as there is no man, but that he shall sin - and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a country far or nigh; ³⁷ yet if their hearts come to them again in the land where they be in captivity, and turn and pray unto thee in the land where they be in captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have done evil and wickedly,' ³⁸ and turn again to thee, with all their hearts and all their souls, in the land of their captivity where they be kept in bondage, and so pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and city which thou hast chosen, and to his house which I have built for thy name; ³⁹ Then hear from heaven, thy dwelling place, their supplication and prayers and judge their cause, and be merciful unto thy people, though they have sinned against thee.

¹⁹ If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God.

²³ but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.'

²⁰ And the wrath of the LORD shall not turn away again, until he perform and fulfils the thought of his heart. And in the latter days ye shall know his meaning."

⁴⁰ {Nun} Let us look well upon our own ways, and remember ourselves, and turn again to the LORD.

¹¹ Yea, all Israel have transgressed, and gone back from thy law, so that they have not hearkened unto thy voice. Wherefore the curse and oath, that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, against whom we have offended, is poured upon us. ¹² And he hath performed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us: to bring upon us such a great plague, as never was under heaven, like as it is now come to pass in Jerusalem. ¹³ Yea, all this plague, as it is written in the law of Moses, is come upon us. Yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn again from our wickedness, and to be learned in thy verity. ¹⁴ Therefore hath the LORD made haste, to bring this plague upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doth. For why? We would not hearken unto his voice. ¹⁵ And now, O LORD our God, thou that with a mighty hand hast brought thy people out of Egypt, to get thyself a name, which remaineth this day: we have sinned, ¹⁶ O LORD, and done wickedly against all thy righteousness: Yet let thy wrathful displeasure be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy hill. And why? For our sins' sake, and for the wickedness of our forefathers is Jerusalem and thy people abhorred, of all them that are about us. ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his intercession. O let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary, that lieth waste. ¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O forgive Lord; O Lord consider, tarry not over long: but for thine own sake do it. O my God: for thy city and thy people is called after thy name."

¹⁴ and am come to show thee what shall happen unto thy people in the latter days: For it will be long yet before the vision be fulfilled."

⁵ But afterward shall the children of Israel convert, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king: and in the latter days they shall worship the LORD, and his loving-kindness.

² Take words with you and turn unto the Lord. And say unto him, "Remit all wickedness and given things, and we will pay thee openly ³ Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless.

¹² And now therefore saith the LORD: Turn to me with all your hearts, in fasting and lamentation. ¹³ And tear your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. For he is full of mercy and compassion, long ere he be angry, and great in mercy and repentance when he is at the point to punish.

¹⁵ that ye may know, how that the LORD of Hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD your God.''

¹⁹ Repent ye, therefore, and turn: that your sins may be done away when the time of refreshing cometh, which we shall have of the presence of the Lord,

²⁰ but showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Jewry, and to the gentiles, that they should repent, and turn to God, and do the right works of repentance.

² but in these last days he hath spoken unto us by his son, whom he hath made heir of all things: by whom also he made the world.

⁹ and was made perfect, and the cause of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him:

⁶ And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth, ⁷ and keepest mercy in store for thousands, and forgivest wickedness, trespass and sin — for there is no man innocent before thee — and visitest the wickedness of the fathers upon the children and upon children's children, even unto the third and fourth generation."

⁴² "'And I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham, and will think on the land.

⁴⁵ I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the LORD.'"

¹⁸ 'The LORD is long yer he be angry, and full of mercy, and suffereth sin and trespass, and leaveth no man innocent, and visiteth the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third and fourth generation.'

⁶ Pluck up your hearts and be strong, dread not nor be afeared of them: for the LORD thy God himself will go with thee, and will neither let thee go nor forsake thee."

⁸ And the LORD he shall go before thee and he shall be with thee, and will not let thee go nor forsake thee. Fear not, therefore, nor be discomforted."

⁵ There shall not a man be able to withstand thee all the days of thy life. For as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee and will neither leave thee, nor forsake thee.

²⁰ And David said to Solomon his son, "Harden thyself and be strong and do it. Fear not, nor let thine heart discourage thee. For the LORD my God is with thee, and shall not leave thee nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work that must serve for the house of the LORD.

⁹ For if ye turn unto the LORD, then your brethren and your children shall find compassion in the presence of them that hold them captive, that they may come again unto this land: for the LORD your God is full of mercy and compassion, and will not turn his face from you, if ye turn again to him."

⁵ and said, "O LORD God of heaven, thou great and terrible God, thou that keepest covenant and mercy for them that love thee and observe thy commandments:

³¹ But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

⁵ For thou, LORD, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

¹⁵ But thou, O LORD God, art full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, plenteous in goodness and truth.

⁸ He is always mindful of his covenant and promise, that he made to a thousand generations,

⁵ He giveth meat unto them that fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.

⁹ He sent redemption unto his people; he hath commanded his covenant forever. Holy and reverent is his name.

⁵ Gracious is the LORD, and righteous, yea our God is merciful.

⁸ The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness. ⁹ The LORD is loving unto every man; and his mercy is over all his works.

²¹ Be not displeased, O LORD, for thy name's sake, forget not thy loving-kindness: Remember the throne of thine honour, break not the covenant that thou hast made with us.

² And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment.

¹⁸ Where is there such a God as thou? That pardonest wickedness, and forgivest the offenses of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? His delight is to have compassion.

⁷² To fulfill the mercy promised to our fathers; And to remember his holy covenant;

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

⁴ Though thou wast cast unto the extreme parts of heaven: even from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee and from thence fetch thee;

⁷ Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

⁸ "Enquire, I pray thee, of them that have been before thee; and search diligently among thy forefathers.

¹ {To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

² Hear, O ye elders! Ponder this well, all ye that dwell in the land, if ever there happened such a thing in your days, or in the days of your fathers.

³¹ And he shall send his angels with the great voice of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.

²⁷ And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, and from the one end of the world to the other.

¹⁸ And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke: because the LORD descended down upon it in fire. And the smoke thereof ascended up, as it had been the smoke of a kiln, and all the mount was exceeding fearful. ¹⁹ And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice.

¹¹ and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they had seen God they ate and drank.

²⁰ And he said furthermore, "Thou mayest not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live."

²⁴ For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God. ²⁵ If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him. ²⁶ I call heaven and earth to record unto you this day, that ye shall shortly perish from off the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it: Ye shall not prolong your days therein, but shall shortly be destroyed.

²⁴ and ye said, 'Behold, the LORD our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the fire, and we have seen this day that God may talk with a man and he yet live.

¹⁰ And the LORD delivered me two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and in them was according to all the words which the LORD said unto you in the mount out of the fire in the day when the people were gathered together.

²² And when Gideon perceived that it was an angel, he said, "Alas my Lord Jehovah, that I have seen an angel of the LORD face to face."

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

¹⁰ But come, I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt."

¹⁷ And I have said it, that I will bring you out of the tribulation of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites: even a land that floweth with milk and honey.' ¹⁸ If it come to pass that they hear thy voice, then go, both thou and the elders of Israel unto the king of Egypt, and say unto him, 'The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: Let us go therefore three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God.' ¹⁹ Notwithstanding, I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, except it be with a mighty hand: ²⁰ yea and I will therefore stretch out mine hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do therein. And after that he will let you go.

⁶ Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, 'I am the LORD, and will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and will rid you out of their bondage, and will deliver you with a stretched-out arm and with great judgments.

³ But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

²⁰ And as many as feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their beasts flee to house: ²¹ and they that regarded not the word of the LORD, left their servants and their beasts in the field.

⁷ And Pharaoh's servants said unto him, "How long shall this fellow thus plague us? Let the men go that they may serve the LORD their God; or else wilt thou see Egypt first destroyed?"

³⁰ Then Pharaoh arose the same night and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying throughout Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead. ³¹ And he called unto Moses and Aaron by night, saying, "Rise up, and get you out from among my people: both ye and also the children of Israel, and go and serve the LORD as ye have said. ³² And take your sheep and your oxen with you as ye have said, and depart and bless me also." ³³ And the Egyptians were fierce upon the people and made haste to send them out of the land: for they said, "We be all dead men."

³ And Moses said unto the people, "Think on this day in which ye came out of Egypt and out of the house of bondage: for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out from thence. See therefore that ye eat no leavened bread.

¹⁵ And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and how that the LORD God brought thee out thence with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm. For which cause the LORD thy God commandeth thee to keep the Sabbath day.

²¹ Then thou shalt say unto thy son, 'We were bondmen unto Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

⁸ But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, therefore he brought you out of Egypt with a mighty hand and delivered you out of the house of bondage; even from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁹ Understand, therefore, that the LORD thy God, he is God: and that a true God, which keepeth covenant and mercy unto them that love him and keep his commandments, even throughout a thousand generations;

¹⁹ and the great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs and wonders and mighty hand and stretched-out arm wherewith the LORD thy God brought thee out: even so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the nations of which thou art afraid.

⁸ And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with great terribleness and with signs and wonders.

³ and the great temptations which thine eyes have seen, and those great miracles and wonders.

¹² and in all the mighty deeds and great terrible things which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

¹² Marvelous things did he in the sight of our forefathers; in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan.

⁴⁸ How he smote their cattle also with hail stones, and their flocks with hot thunderbolts; ⁴⁹ How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them; ⁵⁰ When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ⁵¹ When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. ⁵² But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep, and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. ⁵³ He brought them out safely, that they should not fear, and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea.

²¹ Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the land of Egypt, with tokens, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm and with great terribleness;

⁶ Submit yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you, when the time is come.

¹¹ Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among gods? Who is like thee, so glorious in holiness, fearful, laudable and that showest wonders?

³⁹ Understand, therefore, this day: and turn it to thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath, there is no more.

²³ I will heap mischiefs upon them and will spend all mine arrows at them.

³⁹ "'See, now, how that I — I am he: and that there is no God but I. I can kill, and make alive; and what I have smitten, that I can heal. Neither is there that can deliver any man out of my hand.

² There is none so holy as the LORD: no, there is none save thou. Neither is there any strength like unto our God.

⁴⁵ Then said David to the Philistine, "Thou comest to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield: But I come to thee in the name of the LORD of Hosts, the God of the host of Israel whom thou hast railed upon. ⁴⁶ This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth — and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel. ⁴⁷ And all this congregation shall know that the LORD saveth not with the sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he shall give you into our hands."

³⁶ And when offering time was come, Elijah the prophet went to and said, "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let it be known this day, that thou art the God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I do all these things at thy commandment. ³⁷ Hear me, O LORD; hear me, that this people may know, that thou LORD, art the God, and that thou hast turned their hearts backward."

¹⁹ Now therefore LORD our God, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou LORD art God alone."

¹¹ So that men shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous! Doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the earth!"

¹⁸ And they shall know that thou, whose name is Jehovah, art only the most highest over all the earth.

⁶ Moreover, thus hath the LORD spoken; even the King of Israel, and his avenger, the LORD of Hosts: I am the first and the last, and without me is there no God.

⁸ yea, and that without any fear or stop. For have not I ever told you hitherto, and warned you? Ye can bear me record yourselves. Is there any God except me? Or any maker, that I should not know him?

⁵ Even I the LORD, before whom there is none other: for without me there is no God. I have prepared thee before thou knewest me:

¹⁸ For thus sayeth the LORD, even he that created heaven, the God that made the earth, that fashioned it, and set it forth: I have not made it for naught, but I made it to be inhabited. Even I the LORD, without whom there is none other.

²² And therefore turn you unto me, all ye ends of the earth; so shall ye be saved, for I am God, and there is else none.

²⁹ Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, Israel, the Lord God is One Lord.

³² And the scribe said unto him, "Well master, thou hast said the truth, that there is one God, and that there is none but he.

²⁰ We know that the son of God is come, and hath given us understanding, to know him that is true: and we be in the truth through his son Jesus Christ. He is very God, and eternal life. ²¹ Little children, beware of images. Amen. {Here ends the First General Epistle of John}

¹⁹ And the voice of the horn blew and waxed louder, and louder. Moses spake, and God answered him and that with a voice.

¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunder and the lightning and the noise of the horn, and how the mountain smoked. ¹⁹ And when the people saw it, they removed and stood afar off and said unto Moses, "Talk thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God talk with us, lest we die." ²⁰ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be among you that ye sin not." ²¹ And the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick cloud where God was. ²² And the LORD said unto Moses, "Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, 'Ye have seen how that I have talked with you from out of heaven.

¹⁶ and the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the cloud.

¹³ Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,

¹⁸ For ye are not come unto the mount that can be touched, and unto burning fire, nor yet to mist and darkness and tempest of weather,

⁹ Therefore it shall be a sign unto thee upon thine hand and a remembrance between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD brought thee out of Egypt;

¹⁴ And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' Thou shalt say unto him, 'With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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

³⁴ Either, whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, through temptations and signs and wonders and through war and with a mighty hand and a stretched-out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did unto you in Egypt before your eyes.

⁷ It was not because of the multitude of you, above all nations, that the LORD had lust unto you and chose you: For ye were fewest of all nations.

⁵ It is not for thy righteousness' sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

¹⁵ only the LORD had a lust unto thy fathers to love them, and therefore chose you their seed after them of all nations, as it is come to pass this day.

⁹ For the eyes of the LORD behold all the earth, to strengthen the hearts of them that are whole with him. Herein thou hast done foolishly, and therefore from henceforth thou shalt have war."

⁸ I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

¹⁵ For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers.

⁶ O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen. ⁷ He is the LORD our God, his judgments are in all the world. ⁸ He is always mindful of his covenant and promise, that he made to a thousand generations, ⁹ even the covenant that he made with Abraham, and the oath that he sware unto Isaac, ¹⁰ and appointed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting testament;

¹ When Israel came out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from among that strange people, ² Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. ³ The sea saw that, and fled, Jordan turned back. ⁴ The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like young sheep. ⁵ What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? And thou Jordan, that thou turnest back? ⁶ Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams? And ye little hills, like young sheep?

¹⁰ Which smote Egypt with their firstborn! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹¹ And brought out Israel from among them! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹² With a mighty hand and stretched-out arm! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹³ Which divided the reed sea into parts! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁴ And made Israel to go through the midst of it! For his mercy endureth forever. ¹⁵ But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the reed sea! For his mercy endureth forever.

⁸ And thou Israel, my servant; Jacob, my elect seed of Abraham my beloved, ⁹ whom I led from the ends of the earth by the hand: For I called thee from far, and said unto thee 'Thou shalt be my servant,' I have chosen thee, and will not cast thee away.

⁹ Wake up, wake up, and be strong: O thou arm of the LORD: wake up, like as in times past, ever, and since the world began. ¹⁰ Art not thou he, that hast wounded that proud Egypt, and hewn the dragon in pieces? Art not thou even he, which hast dried up the deep of the sea, which hast made plain the sea ground, that the delivered might go through? ¹¹ That the redeemed of the LORD, which turned again, might come with joy unto Zion, there to endure forever? That mirth and gladness might be with them? That sorrow and woe might flee from them?

⁹ In their troubles he forsook them not, but the angel that went forth from his presence delivered them. Of very love and kindness that he had unto them, he redeemed them: He hath born them, and carried them up ever since the world began.

¹¹ Yet remembered he the old time of Moses and his people: How he brought them from the water of the sea, as a shepherd doth with his sheep; how he had given his holy spirit among them; ¹² how he had led Moses by the righthand with his glorious arm; how he had divided the water before them, whereby he gat himself an everlasting name;

¹ At the same time, sayeth the LORD, shall I be the God of all the generations of Israel, and they shall be my people."

² "I have loved you," sayeth the LORD: And yet ye say, "Wherein hast thou loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" sayeth the LORD, "Yet have I loved Jacob,

⁷² To fulfill the mercy promised to our fathers; And to remember his holy covenant; ⁷³ And to perform the oath, which he sware to our father Abraham, for to give us.

⁵ whose also are the fathers, and they of whom; as concerning the flesh; Christ came: which is God over all things, blessed forever. Amen.

²⁷ I will send my fear before thee and will kill all the people whither thou shalt go. And I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee, ²⁸ and I will send hornets before thee, and they shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites and the Hittites before thee.

³¹ And the LORD said unto me, 'Behold, I have begun to set Sihon and his land before thee: go to and conquer, that thou mayest possess his land.'

¹ When the LORD thy God hath brought thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee: the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perezites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; seven nations more in number and mightier than thou:

¹⁸ But remember the LORD thy God, how that it is he which gave thee power to do manfully, for to make good the covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is come to pass this day.

¹ Hear, Israel: thou goest over Jordan this day, to go and conquer nations greater and mightier than thyself: and cities great and walled up to heaven, ² and people great and tall, even the children of the Anakims, which thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say, 'Who is able to stand before the children of Anak?' ³ Therefore shalt thou know this day, that the LORD thy God goeth over before thee, a consuming fire. He shall destroy them and shall subdue them before thee. And thou shalt cast them out, and bring them to nought quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee. ⁴ Speak not in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out before thee, saying, 'For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land.' Nay, but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth cast them out before thee. ⁵ It is not for thy righteousness' sake and right heart that thou goest to possess their land: But partly for the wickedness of these nations, the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee, and partly to perform that which the LORD thy God sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

²³ then will the LORD cast out all these nations; and ye shall conquer them which are both greater and mightier than yourselves.

¹⁰ And Joshua said, "Hereby ye shall know, that the living God is among you, and that he will, without fail, cast out before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perezites, the Gergesites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

² How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out. ³ For they got not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them — But thy righthand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

³⁵ Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know how that the LORD he is God and that there is none but he.

²⁹ I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'

¹¹ And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did faint. And there remained no more courage in any man for fear of your coming. For the LORD your God; he is the God in heaven above, and on the earth beneath.

⁹ And thou, Solomon my son: know God thy father and serve him with a pure heart and lust of soul. For the LORD searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of thoughts. If thou shalt seek him, he will be found of thee: But and if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off forever.

¹¹ Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, power and glory, victory and praise: for all that is in heaven and in earth is thine, and thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art lifted up a head above all.

⁶ and said, "LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven, and reignest not thou on all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is power and might, that no man can stand before thee.

³ As for our God, he is in heaven; he doth whatsoever it pleaseth him.

⁶ Whatsoever the LORD pleaseth that doeth he in heaven and in earth; in the sea, and in all deep places.

³ The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding.

¹² In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

³⁵ in comparison of whom, all they that dwell upon the earth are to be reputed as nothing. He handleth according to his will, among the powers of heaven and among the inhabiters of the earth - and there is none that may resist his hand, or say, 'What doest thou?'

² They consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. They go about with their own inventions, but I see them well enough.

¹ Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the LORD your God; ² keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. For I am the LORD. ³ "'If ye shall walk in mine ordinances and keep my commandments and do them, ⁴ then I will send you rain in the right season and your land shall yield her increase and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. ⁵ And the threshing shall reach unto wine harvest, and the wine harvest shall reach unto sowing time, and ye shall eat your bread in plenteousness, and shall dwell in your land peaceably. ⁶ And I will send peace in your land, that ye shall sleep, and no man shall make you afraid. And I will rid evil beasts out of your land, and there shall no sword go throughout your land. ⁷ "'And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you upon the sword. ⁸ And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword. ⁹ And I will turn unto you and increase you and multiply you, and set up my covenant with you. ¹⁰ And ye shall eat old store, and cast out the old for plenteousness of the new. ¹¹ I will make my dwelling place among you, and my soul shall not loathe you. ¹² And I will walk among you and will be your God, and ye shall be my people. ¹³ For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I broke the bows of your yokes, and made you go upright.

⁶ Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which, when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say, 'O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation.'

¹⁶ 'Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: that thou mayest prolong thy days, and that it may go well with thee on the land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

³³ but walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live and that it may go well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

³ Hear therefore, Israel, and take heed that thou do thereafter, that it may go well with thee and that ye may increase mightily: even as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

¹⁸ and see thou do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that thou mayest prosper and that thou mayest go and conquer that good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,

²⁵ See thou eat it not, therefore, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt have done that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

²⁸ Take heed and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.

⁷ But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days.

¹ If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, the LORD will set thee on high above all nations of the earth. ² And all these blessings shall come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the town and blessed in the fields; ⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, the fruit of thine oxen, and thy flocks of sheep; ⁵ blessed shall thine almery be and thy store. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out, and blessed when thou comest in. ⁷ The LORD shall smite thine enemies that rise against thee before thy face. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ The LORD shall command the blessing to be with thee in thy store houses and in all that thou settest thine hand to, and will bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. ⁹ "The LORD shall make thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God and walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all nations of the earth shall see that thou art called after the name of the LORD, and they shall be afeared of thee. ¹¹ And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. ¹² "The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, even the heaven, to give rain unto thy land in due season and to bless all the labours of thine hand. And thou shalt lend unto many nations, but shalt not need to borrow thyself. ¹³ And the LORD shall set thee before and not behind, and thou shalt be above only and not beneath: if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God which I command thee this day to keep and to do them. ¹⁴ And see that thou bow not from any of these words which I command thee this day, either to the righthand or to the left, that thou wouldest go after strange gods to serve them.

¹⁵ "If ye love me, keep my commandments,

²¹ He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me: and he shall be loved of my father, and I will love him, and will show mine own self unto him." ²² Judas said unto him — not Judas Iscariot - "Lord what is the cause that thou wilt show thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" ²³ Jesus answered, and said unto him, "If a man love me and will keep my sayings, my father also will love him, and we will come unto him, and will dwell with him. ²⁴ He that loveth me not, keepeth not my sayings. And the words which ye hear are not mine, but the father's, which sent me.

³ "that thou mayst be in good estate, and live long on the earth."

⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.

⁶ "And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities of franchise which ye shall give to that intent that he which committeth a slaughter, may fly thither. And to them ye shall add forty two cities more:

¹⁴ three ye shall give on this side Jordan and three in the land of Canaan. ¹⁵ And these six free cities shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee thither.

² "Come with the children of Israel and say, 'Appoint out free cities, of which I spake unto you by Moses, ³ that the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly, may flee thither. And those cities shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. ⁴ And the slayer shall flee unto one of those Cities and shall stand in the entering of the gate of the city and shall show his cause in the ears of the elders of the said city. And they shall take him into the city unto them, and shall give him a place that he may dwell among them. ⁵ And when the avenger of blood followeth after him they shall not deliver the slayer unto his hand: because he smote his friend ignorantly, and hated him not before time. ⁶ And he shall dwell in the said city until he stand before the congregation in judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. And then shall the slayer return and come unto his own city and unto his own house, and unto the city from whence he fled.'" ⁷ And they appointed Kadesh in Galilee, in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kiriatharba which is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah. ⁸ And on the other side Jordan over against Jericho eastward, they gave Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain, out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and to the strangers that Sojourned among them that whosoever killed any person ignorantly, the same might flee thither and should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

¹¹ ye shall build cities which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares, may fly thither. ¹² And the cities shall be to flee from the executer of blood, that he which killed die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

¹⁵ And these six free cities shall be for the children of Israel and for the stranger and for him that dwelleth among you, that all they which kill any person unawares, may flee thither. ¹⁶ "'If any man smite another with a weapon of iron that he die, then he is a murderer, and shall die for it. ¹⁷ If he smite him with a throwing stone that he die therewith, then he shall die: For he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. ¹⁸ If he smite him with a hand weapon of wood that he die therewith, then he shall die: for he is a murderer and shall be slain therefore. ¹⁹ The judge of blood shall slay the murderer, as soon as he findeth him. ²⁰ "'If he thrust him of hate, or hurl at him with laying of wait that he die, ²¹ or smite him with his hand of envy that he die; he that smote him shall die, for he is a murderer. The justice of blood shall slay him as soon as he findeth him. ²² But and if he pushed him by chance and not of hate, or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait, ²³ or cast any manner of stone at him that he die therewith, and saw him not, and he cast it upon him and he died, but was not his enemy, neither sought him any harm; ²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases. ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city whither he was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil. ²⁶ "'But and if he came without the borders of his privileged city whither he was fled, ²⁷ if the blood avenger find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay the murderer and be guiltless, ²⁸ because he should have bidden in his free town until the death of the high priest, and after the death of the high priest, he shall return again unto the land of his possession.

¹ When the LORD thy God hath destroyed the nations whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou hast conquered them and dwellest in their cities and in their houses; ² thou shalt appoint three cities in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. ³ Thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither. ⁴ And this is the cause of the slayer that shall flee thither and be saved: If he smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time past; ⁵ as when a man goeth unto the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and as his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe, the head slippeth from the helve and smiteth his neighbour that he die; the same shall flee unto one of the same cities and be saved. ⁶ Lest the executer of blood follow after the slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause worthy of death in him, inasmuch as he hated not his neighbour in time past. ⁷ Wherefore I command thee, saying, 'See that thou appoint out three cities.' ⁸ And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coasts as he hath sworn unto thy fathers and give thee all the land which he said he would give unto thy fathers ⁹ — so that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, that thou love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever — then thou shalt add three cities more unto those three, ¹⁰ that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee.

¹⁸ that by two immutable things — in which it was impossible that God should lie — we might have perfect consolation, which have fled, for to hold fast the hope that is set before us:

⁸ And on the other side Jordan over against Jericho eastward, they gave Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain, out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

²⁷ And unto the children of Gershon which were of the kindreds of the Levites, they gave out of the other half tribe of Manasseh, the city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs; Beeshterah with her suburbs: Two cities.

³⁸ And out of the tribe of Gad, they gave the franchised city of the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs; Mahanaim with her suburbs;

¹³ The son of Geber had Ramoth Gilead, and his were the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh which lie in Gilead, and his were the coasts of Argob in Bashan, three score great cities with wall and bars of brass;

³ Then said the king of Israel unto his servants, "Know ye not that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we sit still and take it not out of the hands of the king of Syria?" ⁴ And he said unto Jehoshaphat, "Wilt thou go with me to battle, to Ramoth in Gilead?" And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, "I will be as thou art, and my people shall be as thine, and my horses as thine."

⁷¹ And unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the kindred of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with her suburbs and Ashtaroth with her suburbs.

⁸⁰ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, Mahanaim with her suburbs,

³⁴ These are the commandments which the LORD gave Moses in charge to give unto the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

¹³ These are the commandments and laws which the LORD commanded through Moses, unto the children of Israel in the fields of Moab upon Jordan nigh unto Jericho.

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

¹⁸ And when he is sitten upon the seat of his kingdom, he shall write him out this second law in a book; taking a copy of the priests' the Levites'. ¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all days of his life that he may learn to fear the LORD his God for to keep all the words of this law and these ordinances for to do them:

³ and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

⁸ And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well."

²⁶ "'Cursed be he that maintaineth not all the words of this law to do them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

⁴ Moses gave us a law which is the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.

⁴ Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I committed unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and ordinances.

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ But see that ye keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his witnesses and his ordinances which he hath commanded thee,

²⁰ When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, 'What meaneth the witnesses, ordinances and laws which the LORD our God hath commanded you?'

³ And see that thou keep the appointment of the LORD thy God, that thou walk in his ways and keep his commandments, ordinances, laws and testimonies, even as it is written in the law of Moses: that thou mayest understand all that thou oughtest to do, and all that thou shouldest meddle with.

⁵ O that my ways were made so direct, that I might keep thy statutes!

⁷ I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, because I am learned in the judgments of thy righteousness.

¹⁴ I have as great delight in the way of thy testimonies, as in all manner of riches.

²² O turn from me shame and rebuke, for I have kept thy testimonies.

²⁴ For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors.

¹¹¹ Thy testimonies have I claimed as my heritage forever; and why? They are the very joy of my heart.

²¹ And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ²² "Let us go through thy land; We will not turn into thy fields nor into thy vineyards, neither drink of the water of the wells: but we will go along by the common way, until we be past thy country." ²³ And Sihon would give Israel no license to pass through his country, but gathered all his people together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. And he came to Jahaz and fought with Israel. ²⁴ And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and conquered his land, from Arnon unto Jabbok: even unto the children of Ammon. For the borders of the children of Ammon are strong. ²⁵ And Israel took all these cities and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites: in Heshbon and in all the towns that long thereto. ²⁶ For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites which Sihon had fought before with the king of the Moabites, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon. ²⁷ Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say: "Go to Heshbon and let the city of Sihon be built and made ready! ²⁸ For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the city of Sihon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites and the men of the hills of Arnon! ²⁹ Woe be to thee, Moab! O people of Chemosh, ye are forlorn! His sons are put to flight and his daughters brought captive unto Sihon, king of the Amorites! ³⁰ Their light is out, from Heshbon unto Dibon! And we made a wilderness even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba!" ³¹ And thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. ³² And Moses sent to search out Jazer, and they took the towns belonging thereto and conquered the Amorites that were there.

¹⁹ For we will not inherit with them on yonder side, Jordan forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side, Jordan eastward."

⁴ after that he had smote Sihon the king of the Amorites which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan which dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei. ⁵ On the other side Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

³⁰ But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God had hardened his spirit and made his heart tough because he would deliver him into thy hands as it is come to pass this day. ³¹ And the LORD said unto me, 'Behold, I have begun to set Sihon and his land before thee: go to and conquer, that thou mayest possess his land.' ³² Then both Sihon and all his people came out against us unto battle at Jahaz. ³³ And the LORD set him before us, and we smote him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴ And we took all his cities the same season, and destroyed all the cities with men, women, and children and let nothing remain, ³⁵ save the cattle only we caught unto ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took: ³⁶ from Aroer upon the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto us:

⁸ And thus we took, the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon

²⁹ And so we abode in the valley beside Bethpeor.

⁴⁷ and conquered his land and the land of Og king of Bashan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan toward the sun rising:

³³ And then they turned and went up toward Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, came out against them, both he and all his people, to war at Edrei. ³⁴ And the LORD said unto Moses, "Fear him not, for I have delivered him into thy hands with all his people and his land. And thou shalt do with him as thou didst with Sihon, the king of the Amorites which dwelt at Heshbon." ³⁵ And they smote him and his sons and all his people, until there was nothing left him. And they conquered his land.

¹ Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us: both he and all his people to battle at Edrei. ² And the LORD said unto me, "Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into thy hand and thou shalt deal with him as thou dealtest with Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Heshbon.' ³ And so the LORD our God delivered into our hands, Og also the king of Bashan and all his folk. And we smote him until nought was left him. ⁴ And we took all his cities the same season, for there was not a city which we took not from them; even three score cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these cities were made strong with high walls, gates and bars; beside un-walled towns, a great many. ⁶ And we utterly destroyed them, as we played with Sihon king of Heshbon: bringing to nought all the cities with men, women and children. ⁷ But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities, we caught for ourselves. ⁸ And thus we took, the same season, the land out of the hand of two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon ⁹ — which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senir - ¹⁰ all the cities in the plain and all Gilead and all Bashan unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Giants: behold, his iron bed is yet at Rabbah, among the children of Ammon: nine cubits long and four cubits broad, of the cubits of a man. ¹² And when we had conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer, which is upon the river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof unto the Reubenites, and Gadites. ¹³ And the rest of Gilead and all Bashan the kingdom of Og, I gave unto the half tribe of Manasseh: all the region of Argob with all Bashan was called the land of Giants. ¹⁴ Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi, and called the towns of Bashan after his own name: the towns of Jair unto this day.

⁷ And at the last ye came unto this place, and Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against you unto battle, and we smote them ⁸ and took their land and gave it a heritance unto the Reubenites and Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

³⁶ from Aroer upon the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto us:

⁹ — which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites call it Senir -

¹² And when we had conquered this land the same time, I gave from Aroer, which is upon the river of Arnon, and half mount Gilead and the cities thereof unto the Reubenites, and Gadites.

²⁴ And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad he gave by kindreds. ²⁵ And their coasts were Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that lieth before Rabbah; ²⁶ And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the borders of Debir. ²⁷ And in the valley they had Betharam, Bethnimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, and Jordan and the coasts that lie thereon, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth, on the other side Jordan eastward. ²⁸ This is the inheritance of the children of Gad in their kindreds, the cities with their villages. ²⁹ And Moses gave unto the half tribe of Manasseh. And the half tribe of Manasseh had their part by their kindreds. ³⁰ And their coasts were from Mahanaim, even all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair which lie in Bashan, even three score cities, ³¹ and half Gilead and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which pertain unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, and that unto half the children of Machir by their kindreds. ³² These are they to which Moses gave inheritance in the fields of Moab, on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward. ³³ But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave none inheritance, "For the LORD God of Israel he is their inheritance," as he said unto them.

³ Like the dew of Hermon, which fell upon the hill of Zion. For there the LORD promised his blessing, and life forevermore.

¹⁷ and the fields and Jordan with the coast, from Chinnereth even unto the sea in the field which is the salt sea under the springs of Pisgah eastward.

¹ And Moses went from the fields of Moab up into mount Nebo which is the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead even unto Dan,

²⁰ and Bethpeor and the springs of Pisgah, and Bethjeshimoth;