Genesis 31 Cross References - MSTC

¹ And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour." ² And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past. ³ And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee." ⁴ Then Jacob sent and called Rachel and Lea to the field unto his sheep, ⁵ and said unto them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my father hath been with me. ⁶ And ye know how that I have served your father with all my might. ⁷ And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me. ⁸ When he said, 'the spotted shall be thy wages,' then all the sheep bare spotted. If he said, 'the streaked shall be thy reward,' then bare all the sheep streaked. ⁹ Thus hath God taken away your father's cattle and given them me. ¹⁰ For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream: and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were streaked, spotted and party. ¹¹ And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying, 'Jacob?' And I answered, 'Here am I.' ¹² And he said, 'Lift up thine eyes and see how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born.'" ¹⁴ Then answered Rachel and Lea and said unto him, "We have no part nor inheritance in our father's house: ¹⁵ he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us. ¹⁶ Moreover, all the riches which God hath taken from our father: that is ours and our children's. Now therefore whatsoever God hath said unto thee, that do." ¹⁷ Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon camels, ¹⁸ and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan. ¹⁹ Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images. ²⁰ And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled. ²¹ So fled he, and all that he had, and made himself ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead. ²² Upon the third day after, was it told Laban that Jacob was fled. ²³ Then he took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days' journey, and overtook him at the mount Gilead. ²⁴ And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good." ²⁵ And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead. ²⁶ Then said Laban to Jacob, "Why hast thou this done, unknowing to me, and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword? ²⁷ Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps, ²⁸ and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it, ²⁹ for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spake unto me yesterday, saying, 'take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.' ³⁰ And now, though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?" ³¹ Jacob answered, and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me. ³² But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee." For Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them. ³³ Then went Laban into Jacob's tent, and into Lea's tent, and into two maidens' tents: but found them not. Then went he out of Lea's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent. ³⁴ And Rachel took the images, and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not. ³⁵ Then said she to her father, "My lord, be not angry that I cannot rise up before thee, for the disease of women is come upon me." So searched he, but found them not. ³⁶ Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me? ³⁷ Thou hast searched all my stuff, and what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Put it here before thy brethren and mine, and let them judge betwixt us both. ³⁸ This twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not been barren, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. ³⁹ Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day or night. ⁴⁰ Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes. ⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times. ⁴² And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday." ⁴³ Laban answered and said unto Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? ⁴⁴ Now therefore, come on, let us make a bond, I and thou together, and let it be a witness between thee and me." ⁴⁵ Then took Jacob a stone and set it up on end, ⁴⁶ and said unto his brethren, "Gather stones." And they took stones, and made a heap, and they ate there, upon the heap. ⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called Gilead. ⁴⁸ Then said Laban, "This heap be witness between thee and me this day." Therefore is it called Gilead. ⁴⁹ "And this toot-hill which the LORD seeth," said he, "be witness between me and thee when we are departed one from another: ⁵⁰ that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me." ⁵¹ And Laban said moreover to Jacob, "Behold, this heap and this mark which I have set here, betwixt me and thee: ⁵² this heap be witness and also this mark, that I will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over this heap and this mark, to do any harm. ⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. ⁵⁴ Then Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill. ⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his daughters, and blessed them and departed and went unto his place again.

¹⁴ And the name of the third river is Hiddekel, which runneth on the east side of the Assyrians; And the fourth river is Euphrates.

²⁴ For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

¹³ And the LORD God said unto the woman, "Wherefore didst thou so?" And the woman answered, "The serpent deceived me and I ate."

⁵ but unto Cain and unto his offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.

¹⁰ And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.

²¹ And his brother's name was Jubal; of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs.

⁵ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built.

²⁴ And Nahor, when he was twenty nine years old, begat Terah, ²⁵ and lived, after he had begot Terah, a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. ²⁶ And when Terah was seventy years old, he begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. ²⁷ And these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran begat Lot. ²⁸ And Haran died before Terah his father, in the land where he was born, at Ur in Chaldea. ²⁹ And Abram and Nahor took them wives. Abram's wife was called Sarai. And Nahor's wife, Milcah the daughter of Haran; which was father of Milcah and of Iscah.

³¹ Then took Terah: Abram his son, and Lot his son Haran's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law his son Abram's wife. And they went with him from Ur in Chaldea, to go into the land of Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelled there.

⁸ Then departed he thence unto a mountain that lieth on the east side of Bethel and pitched his tent — Bethel being on the west side, and Ai on the east — and he built there an altar unto the LORD, and called on the name of the LORD.

¹⁸ Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, "Why hast thou thus dealt with me? Wherefore toldest thou me not that she was thy wife?

⁸ Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.

¹⁵ for all the land which thou seest will I give unto thee and to thy seed for ever.

²² And Abram answered the king of Sodom, "I lift up my hand unto the LORD God most high, possessor of heaven and earth,

¹⁸ And that same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "Unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of Egypt, even unto the great river Euphrates:

⁵ Then said Sarai unto Abram, "Thou dost me unright, for I have given my maid into thy bosom: and now because she seeth that she hath conceived, I am despised in her sight: the LORD judge between thee and me."

⁷ And the Angel of the LORD found her beside a fountain of water in the wilderness: even by a well in the way to Shur. ⁸ And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence comest thou and whither wilt thou go?" And she answered, "I flee from my mistress Sarai." ⁹ And the Angel of the LORD said unto her, "Return to thy mistress again, and submit thyself under her hands." ¹⁰ And the angel of the LORD said unto her, "I will so increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude." ¹¹ And the LORD's angel said further unto her, "See, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation.

¹¹ And the LORD's angel said further unto her, "See, thou art with child and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael: because the LORD hath heard thy tribulation. ¹² He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren." ¹³ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."

¹³ And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, "Thou art the God that lookest on me," for she said, "I have of a surety seen here the back parts of him that seeth me."

⁷ Moreover, I will make my covenant between me, and thee, and thy seed after thee; in their times to be an everlasting testament, so that I will be God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

¹ And the LORD appeared unto him in the oak grove of Mamre as he sat in his tent door in the heat of the day.

¹¹ Abraham and Sara were both old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sara after the manner as it is with wives. ¹² And Sara laughed in herself saying, "Now I am waxed old, shall I give myself to lust, and my lord old also?"

¹⁷ And the LORD said, "Can I hide from Abraham that thing which I am about to do,

³³ And the LORD went his way as soon as he had left communing with Abraham. And Abraham returned unto his place.

⁷ and said, "Nay. For God's sake, brethren, do not so wickedly.

³ And God came to Abimelech by night in a dream and said to him, "See, thou art but a dead man for the woman's sake which thou hast taken away, for she is a man's wife."

⁶ And God said unto him in a dream, "I know it well that thou didst it in the pureness of thy heart: And therefore I kept thee that thou shouldest not sin against me, neither suffered I thee to come nigh her.

⁹ And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done." ¹⁰ And Abimelech said moreover unto Abraham, "What sawest thou that moved thee to do this thing?" ¹¹ And Abraham answered, "I thought that peradventure the fear of God was not in this place, and that they should slay me for my wife's sake:

⁸ The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast, the same day that Isaac was weaned.

²² And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest.

²² And it chanced, the same season, that Abimelech and Phicol his chief captain spake unto Abraham saying, "God is with thee in all that thou doest. ²³ Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee."

²³ Now therefore swear unto me even here by God, that thou wilt not hurt me nor my children, nor my children's children. But that thou shalt deal with me and the country where thou art a stranger, according unto the kindness that I have showed thee." ²⁴ Then said Abraham, "I will swear."

²⁴ Then said Abraham, "I will swear." ²⁵ And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had taken away. ²⁶ And Abimelech answered, "I wist not who did it: Also thou toldest me not, neither heard I of it, but this day." ²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them unto Abimelech. And they made both of them a bond together. ²⁸ And Abraham set seven lambs by themselves. ²⁹ And Abimelech said unto Abraham, "What mean these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?" ³⁰ And he answered, "Seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well." ³¹ Wherefore the place is called Beersheba, because they sware both of them. ³² Thus made they a bond together at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol his chief Captain rose up and turned again unto the land of the Philistines.

¹ After these deeds, God did prove Abraham and said unto him, "Abraham." And he answered, "Here am I."

²⁰ And it chanced, after these things, that one told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor: ²¹ Uz his eldest son and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of the Syrians, ²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." ²³ And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother. ²⁴ And his concubine called Reuma she bare also Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacha.

³ that I may make thee swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the Canaanites, among which I dwell. ⁴ But shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac."

¹⁰ And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master and departed, and had of all manner goods of his master with him, and stood up and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

²⁷ and said, "Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham which ceaseth not to deal mercifully and truly with my master. For the LORD hath brought me the way to my master's brother's house." ²⁸ And the damsel ran and told them of her mother's house these things.

⁵⁰ Then answered Laban and Bethuel, saying, "The thing is proceeded even out of the LORD, we can not therefore say unto thee, either good or bad:

⁵⁹ Then they brought Rebekah their sister on the way, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and the men that were with him. ⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, "Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies."

⁶⁰ And they blessed Rebekah and said unto her, "Thou art our sister, grow into thousand thousands, and thy seed possess the gates of their enemies." ⁶¹ And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and sat them up upon the camels and went their way after the man. And the servant took Rebekah and went his way.

⁶⁷ Then Isaac brought her in to his mother Sara's tent, and took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her: and so was Isaac comforted over his mother.

³ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee: for unto thee and unto thy seed I will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father, ⁴ and will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries. And through thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, ⁵ because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice and kept mine ordinances, commandments, statutes and laws."

¹⁰ Then said Abimelech, "Why hast thou done this unto us? One of the people might lightly have lain by thy wife and so shouldest thou have brought sin upon us."

²⁴ And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham thy father. Fear not; for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

²⁸ Then said they, "We saw that the LORD was with thee, and therefore we said that there should be an oath betwixt us and thee, and that we would make a bond with thee: ²⁹ that thou shouldest do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and have done unto thee nothing but good, and send thee away in peace: for thou art now the blessed of the LORD." ³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

³⁰ And he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. ³¹ And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to another. And Isaac sent them away. And they departed from him in peace.

¹ And it came to pass that Isaac waxed old and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see. Then called he Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him, "My son." And he said unto him, "Here am I." ² And he said, "Behold, I am old and know not the day of my death:

³³ And Isaac was greatly astonished out of measure, and said, "Where is he then that hath hunted venison and brought it me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him, and he shall be blessed still."

⁴¹ And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."

¹ Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,

⁴ and give thee the blessing of Abraham: both to thee and to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest possess the land — wherein thou art a stranger — which God gave unto Abraham." ⁵ Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

¹² And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon it.

¹² And he dreamed: and behold there stood a ladder upon the earth, and the top of it reached up to heaven. And see, the angels of God went up and down upon it. ¹³ Yea, and the LORD stood upon it and said, "I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon will I give thee and thy seed.

¹³ Yea, and the LORD stood upon it and said, "I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac: The land which thou sleepest upon will I give thee and thy seed. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: And thou shalt spread abroad: west, east, north and south. And through thee and thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. ¹⁵ And see, I am with thee, and will be thy keeper in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: Neither will I leave thee; until I have made good all that I have promised thee."

¹⁵ And see, I am with thee, and will be thy keeper in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: Neither will I leave thee; until I have made good all that I have promised thee." ¹⁶ When Jacob was awaked out of his sleep, he said, "Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware." ¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, "How fearful is this place? It is none other, but even the house of God and the gate of heaven!" ¹⁸ And Jacob stood up early in the morning and took the stone that he had laid under his head, and pitched it up on end, and poured oil on the top of it. ¹⁹ And he called the name of the place Bethel, for indeed the name of the city was called Luz before time. ²⁰ And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this journey which I go and will give me bread to eat, and clothes to put on, ²¹ so that I come again unto my father's house in safety: then shall the LORD be my God,

²¹ so that I come again unto my father's house in safety: then shall the LORD be my God, ²² and this stone which I have set up on end, shall be God's house. And of all that thou shalt give me, will I give the tenth unto thee."

¹³ When Laban heard tell of Jacob, his sister's son, he ran against him, and embraced him and kissed him and brought him into his house. And then Jacob told Laban all the matter.

¹⁵ And afterward Laban said unto Jacob, "Though thou be my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? Tell me, what shall thy wages be?" ¹⁶ And Laban had two daughters, the eldest called Lea and the youngest Rachel. ¹⁷ Lea was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. ¹⁸ And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter."

¹⁸ And Jacob loved her well, and said, "I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy youngest daughter." ¹⁹ And Laban answered, "It is better that I give her thee, than to another man: bide therefore with me."

¹⁹ And Laban answered, "It is better that I give her thee, than to another man: bide therefore with me." ²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

²⁰ And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. ²¹ And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come." ²² Then Laban bade all the men of that place, and made a feast. ²³ And when even was come, he took Lea his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her. ²⁴ And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpah his maid, to be her servant.

²⁴ And Laban gave unto his daughter Lea, Zilpah his maid, to be her servant. ²⁵ And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?" ²⁶ Laban answered, "It is not the manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest. ²⁷ Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more. ²⁸ And Jacob did even so, and passed out that week, and then he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also. ²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her servant.

²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her servant. ³⁰ So lay he by Rachel also, and loved Rachel more than Lea, and served him yet seven years more.

³² And Lea conceived and bare a son, and called his name Reuben, for she said, "The LORD hath looked upon my tribulation. And now my husband will love me."

² Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"

²⁵ As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place and country; ²⁶ give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee." ²⁷ Then said Laban unto him, "If I have found favour in thy sight — for I suppose that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake —

²⁹ But he said unto him, "Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been under me: ³⁰ For it was but little that thou hadst before I came, and now it is increased into a multitude, and the LORD hath blessed thee for my sake. But now when shall I make provision for mine own house also?"

³² I will go about all thy sheep this day, and separate from them all the sheep that are spotted and of divers colors, and all black sheep among the lambs, and the party and spotted among the kids: And then such shall be my reward. ³³ So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time cometh that I shall receive my reward of thee: So that whatsoever is not speckled and party among the goats and black among the lambs, let that be theft with me."

³³ So shall my righteousness answer for me: when the time cometh that I shall receive my reward of thee: So that whatsoever is not speckled and party among the goats and black among the lambs, let that be theft with me." ³⁴ Then said Laban, "Lo, I am content that it be according as thou hast said." ³⁵ And he took out that same day the he-goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons,

³⁵ And he took out that same day the he-goats that were party and of divers colours, and all the goats that were spotted and party coloured, and all that had white in them, and all the black among the lambs: and put them in the keeping of his sons, ³⁶ and set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Laban's sheep.

³⁶ and set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob. And so Jacob kept the rest of Laban's sheep. ³⁷ Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees, and peeled white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves:

³⁷ Jacob took rods of green poplar, hazel, and of chestnut trees, and peeled white streaks in them and made the white appear in the staves: ³⁸ And he put the staves which he had peeled even before the sheep; in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.

³⁸ And he put the staves which he had peeled even before the sheep; in the gutters and watering troughs, when the sheep came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink. ³⁹ And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party.

³⁹ And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party.

³⁹ And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party. ⁴⁰ Then Jacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by themself, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban.

⁴⁰ Then Jacob parted the lambs, and turned the faces of the sheep toward spotted things, and toward all manner of black things throughout the flocks of Laban. And he made him flocks of his own by themself, which he put not unto the flocks of Laban. ⁴¹ And always in the first bucking time of the sheep, Jacob put the staves before the sheep in the gutters, that they might conceive before the staves: ⁴² But in the latter bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Jacob's. ⁴³ And the man became exceeding rich and had many sheep, maidservants, menservants, camels and asses.

¹ And Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, how they said, "Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's, and of our father's goods, hath he gotten all this honour." ² And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, that it was not toward him as it was in times past. ³ And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."

³ And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."

³ And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee." ⁴ Then Jacob sent and called Rachel and Lea to the field unto his sheep, ⁵ and said unto them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my father hath been with me.

⁵ and said unto them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my father hath been with me.

⁷ And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me. ⁸ When he said, 'the spotted shall be thy wages,' then all the sheep bare spotted. If he said, 'the streaked shall be thy reward,' then bare all the sheep streaked. ⁹ Thus hath God taken away your father's cattle and given them me.

⁹ Thus hath God taken away your father's cattle and given them me. ¹⁰ For in bucking time, I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream: and behold, the rams that bucked the sheep were streaked, spotted and party.

¹² And he said, 'Lift up thine eyes and see how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee. ¹³ I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedest the stone and where thou vowdest a vow unto me. Now arise and get thee out of this country, and return unto the land where thou wast born.'"

¹⁶ Moreover, all the riches which God hath taken from our father: that is ours and our children's. Now therefore whatsoever God hath said unto thee, that do." ¹⁷ Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon camels, ¹⁸ and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan. ¹⁹ Laban was gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father's images. ²⁰ And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled. ²¹ So fled he, and all that he had, and made himself ready, and passed over the rivers, and set his face straight toward the mount Gilead.

²³ Then he took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days' journey, and overtook him at the mount Gilead. ²⁴ And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."

²⁶ Then said Laban to Jacob, "Why hast thou this done, unknowing to me, and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword? ²⁷ Wherefore wentest thou away secretly, unknown to me, and didst not tell me, that I might have brought thee on the way with mirth, singing, timbrels and harps, ²⁸ and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it, ²⁹ for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spake unto me yesterday, saying, 'take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.' ³⁰ And now, though thou wentest thy way because thou longest after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?" ³¹ Jacob answered, and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me. ³² But with whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him die here before our brethren. Seek that thine is by me, and take it to thee." For Jacob wist not that Rachel had stolen them.

³⁴ And Rachel took the images, and put them in the camel's straw, and sat down upon them. And Laban searched all the tent: but found them not.

³⁶ Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Jacob also answered and said to him, "What have I trespassed or what have I offended, that thou followedest after me? ³⁷ Thou hast searched all my stuff, and what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Put it here before thy brethren and mine, and let them judge betwixt us both. ³⁸ This twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not been barren, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

³⁸ This twenty years that I have been with thee, thy sheep and thy goats have not been barren, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. ³⁹ Whatsoever was torn of beasts I brought it not unto thee, but made it good myself: of my hand didst thou require it, whether it was stolen by day or night. ⁴⁰ Moreover, by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep departed from mine eyes. ⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.

⁴¹ Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times. ⁴² And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday."

⁴² And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the God whom Isaac feareth, had been with me: surely thou hadst sent me away now all empty. But God beheld my tribulation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday." ⁴³ Laban answered and said unto Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the sheep are my sheep, and all that thou seest is mine. And what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born? ⁴⁴ Now therefore, come on, let us make a bond, I and thou together, and let it be a witness between thee and me." ⁴⁵ Then took Jacob a stone and set it up on end,

⁴⁸ Then said Laban, "This heap be witness between thee and me this day." Therefore is it called Gilead.

⁵² this heap be witness and also this mark, that I will not come over this heap to thee, and thou shalt not come over this heap and this mark, to do any harm. ⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be judge betwixt us." And Jacob sware by him that his father Isaac feared. ⁵⁴ Then Jacob did sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and tarried all night in the hill. ⁵⁵ And early in the morning Laban rose up and kissed his children and his daughters, and blessed them and departed and went unto his place again.

⁹ And Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac: LORD, which saidest unto me, 'return unto thy country and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee.'

⁴ Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

¹⁸ And Jacob came peaceably into the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, after that he was come from Mesopotamia, and pitched before the city;

⁷ And the sons of Jacob came out of the field as soon as they heard it, for it grieved them, and they were not a little wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel, in that he had lain with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

²⁹ And all their goods, all their children and their wives took they captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses.

¹ And God said unto Jacob, "Arise and get thee up to Bethel, and dwell there. And make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother." ² Then said Jacob unto his household, and to all that were with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you and make yourselves clean, and change your garments,

⁷ And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because that God appeared unto him there, when he fled from his brother.

²⁷ Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers. ²⁸ And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years: ²⁹ and then fell he sick and died, and was put unto his people being old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

²⁵ And they sat them down to eat bread. And as they lift up their eyes and looked about, there came a company of Ishmaelites from Gilead, and their camels laden with spicery, balm, and myrrh, and were going down into Egypt.

⁵ And they dreamed, either of them, in one night: both the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt which were bound in the prison house, either of them his dream, and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation.

¹ And it fortuned, at two years' end, that Pharaoh dreamed; and thought that he stood by a river's side,

⁹ With whosoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and let us also be my lord's bondmen." ¹⁰ And he said, "Now therefore, according unto your words, he with whom it is found shall be my servant: but ye, shall be harmless." ¹¹ And at once every man took down his sack to the ground, and every man opened his sack. ¹² And he searched, and began at the eldest and left at the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.

¹³ Therefore, tell my father of all my honour which I have in Egypt and of all that ye have seen, and make haste and bring in father hither."

² And God said unto Israel in a vision by night, and called unto him, "Jacob, Jacob." And he answered, "Here am I." ³ And he said, "I am that mighty God of thy father, fear not to go down into Egypt. For I will make of thee there a great people.

²⁸ And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph that the way might be showed him unto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day;

¹⁵ And he blessed Joseph saying, "God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, and the God which hath fed me all my life long unto this day; ¹⁶ And the angel which hath delivered me from all evil, bless these lads: that they may be called after my name, and after my father Abraham and Isaac, and that they may grow and multiply upon the earth."

⁷ Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

¹⁷ 'This wise say unto Joseph: forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they rewarded thee evil.' Now therefore we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father's God." And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

²⁴ And Joseph said unto his brethren, "I die; And God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."

¹¹ And it happened in these days when Moses was waxed great, that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens, and spied an Egyptian smiting one of his brethren, an Hebrew.

¹³ And he went out another day: and behold, two Hebrews strove together. And he said unto him that did the wrong, "Wherefore smitest thou thine neighbor?"

¹⁹ And they answered, "There was an Egyptian that delivered us from the shepherds, and so drew us water and watered the sheep." ²⁰ And he said unto his daughters, "Where is he? Why have ye left the man? Go call him that he may eat bread." ²¹ And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter which bare a son, ²² and he called him Gershom: for he said, "I have been a stranger in a strange land." And she bare yet another son, whom he called Eliezer saying, "The God of my father is mine helper, and hath rid me out of the hands of Pharaoh."

¹ Moses kept the sheep of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he drove the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.

⁴ And when the LORD saw that he came for to see, he called unto him out of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses." And he answered, "Here am I."

⁶ And he said, "I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. ⁷ Then the LORD said, "I have surely seen the trouble of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, which they have of their taskmasters. For I know their sorrow,

⁹ Now therefore behold, the complaint of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression, wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

¹⁰ And Moses said unto the LORD, "O my Lord. I am not eloquent, no not in times past and namely since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow mouthed and slow tongued."

²⁷ Then said the LORD unto Aaron, "Go meet Moses in the wilderness." And he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him.

¹² "For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution.

⁵ And when it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled, then Pharaoh's heart and all his servants turned unto the people and said, "Why have we this done, that we have let Israel go out of our service?" ⁶ And he made ready his chariots and took his people with him, ⁷ and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and captains upon all his people. ⁸ For the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he followed after the children of Israel which for all that went out through a high hand. ⁹ And the Egyptians followed after them and overtook them where they pitched by the sea, with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and with his horsemen and his host: even fast by the entering of Hiroth before Baalzephon. ¹⁰ And Pharaoh drew nigh, and when the children of Israel lift up their eyes and saw how the Egyptians followed after them, they were sore afraid and cried out unto the LORD. ¹¹ Then said they unto Moses, "Were there no graves for us in Egypt, but thou must bring us away for to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou served us thus, for to carry us out of Egypt? ¹² Did not we tell thee this in Egypt saying, 'Let us be in rest and serve the Egyptians?' For it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than for to die in the wilderness." ¹³ And Moses said unto the people, "Fear ye not, but stand still and behold how the LORD shall save you this day: For as ye see the Egyptians this day, shall ye see them no more forever till the world's end. ¹⁴ The LORD shall fight for you and ye shall hold your peace." ¹⁵ The LORD said unto Moses, "Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward. ¹⁶ But lift thou up thy rod and stretch out thy hand over the sea and divide it asunder, that the children of Israel may go on dry ground through the midst thereof. ¹⁷ And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they may follow you. And I will get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen. ¹⁸ And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen." ¹⁹ And the angel of God which went before the host of Israel, removed and went behind them. And the clouden pillar that was before them removed and stood behind them ²⁰ and went between the host of the Egyptians and the host of Israel. It was a dark cloud, and gave light by night: so that all the night long the one could not come at the other. ²¹ When now Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, the LORD carried away the sea with a strong east wind that blew all night, and made the sea dry land and the water divided itself. ²² And the children of Israel went in through the midst of the sea upon the dry ground. And the water was a wall unto them, both on their right hand and on their left hand. ²³ And the Egyptians followed and went in after them to the midst of the sea, with all Pharaoh's horses, and his chariots and his horsemen. ²⁴ And in the morning watch, the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians out of the fiery and cloudy pillar, and troubled their host; ²⁵ and smote off their chariot wheels and cast them down to the ground. Then said the Egyptians, "Let us flee from Israel, for the LORD fighteth for them against us." ²⁶ Then said the LORD unto Moses, "Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the water may come again upon the Egyptians; upon their chariots and horsemen." ²⁷ Then stretched forth Moses his hand over the sea, and it came again to his course early in the morning, and the Egyptians fled against it. Thus the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, ²⁸ and the water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen: so that of all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them, there remained not one. ²⁹ But the children of Israel went upon dry land in the midst of the sea, and the water was a wall unto them: both on the right hand of them and also on the left. ³⁰ Thus the LORD delivered Israel the selfsame day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seaside. ³¹ And when Israel saw that mighty hand which the LORD had showed upon the Egyptians, they feared the LORD: and believed both the LORD and also his servant Moses.

²⁰ And Miriam, a prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women came out after her with timbrels in a dance.

¹² And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, offered burnt offerings and sacrifices unto God. And Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God.

¹² "Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

⁷ "If a man sell his daughter to be a servant: she shall not go out as the menservants do. ⁸ If she please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he despised her. ⁹ If he have promised her unto his son to wife, he shall deal with her as men do with their daughters. ¹⁰ If he take him another wife, yet her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish. ¹¹ If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.

¹⁰ If a man deliver unto his neighbor to keep ass, ox, sheep or whatsoever beast it be and it die, or be hurt or driven away, and no man see it: ¹¹ then shall an oath of the LORD go between them, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's good, and the owner of it shall take the oath, and the other shall not make it good. ¹² If it be stolen from him, then he shall make restitution unto the owner: ¹³ If it be torn with wild beasts, then let him bring record of the tearing: and he shall not make it good.

³¹ Ye shall be holy people unto me, and therefore shall ye eat no flesh that is torn of beasts in the field. But shall cast it to dogs."

²⁶ "Moreover there shall be no woman childless or unfruitful in thy land, and the number of thy days I will fulfill.

¹⁹ When a woman's natural course of blood runneth, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean unto the evening.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth.

³ See that ye fear every man his father and his mother, and that ye keep my Sabbaths, for I am the LORD your God.

¹³ Thou shalt not beguile thy neighbour with cavillations, neither rob him violently, neither shall the workman's labour abide with thee until the morning.

³² Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.

⁸ Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

²⁶ And when I have broken the staff of your bread: that ten wives shall bake your bread in one oven and men shall deliver you your bread again by weight, then shall ye eat and shall not be satisfied.

⁶ And he said, "Hear my words. If there be a prophet of the LORD's among you, I will show myself unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

²² For of all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now this ten times and have not hearkened unto my voice,

¹⁵ And Moses waxed very angry and said unto the LORD, "Turn not unto their offerings. I have not taken so much as an ass from them, neither have vexed any of them."

²⁰ And God came to Balaam by night and said unto him, "If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do."

²⁶ And the angel of the LORD went further and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn, either to the righthand or to the left.

⁵ And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise."

⁸ How shall I curse whom God curseth not? And how shall I defy whom the LORD defieth not?

¹¹ And Balak said unto Balaam, "What hast thou done unto me? I fetched thee to curse mine enemies: and behold, thou blessest them!"

¹ When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD that he should bless Israel, he went not as he did twice before to fetch soothsaying, but set his face toward the wilderness,

¹³ 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot pass the mouth of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind. What the LORD sayeth, that must I speak.'

²⁵ And Balaam rose up and went and dwelt in his place: and Balak also went his way.

¹ The children of Reuben and the children of Gad had an exceeding great multitude of cattle. And when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was an apt place for cattle,

⁴ while the Egyptians buried all their firstborn which the LORD had smoten among them. And upon their gods also the LORD did execution.

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:

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.

¹⁶ And unto Reuben and Gad, I gave from Gilead unto the river of Arnon and half the valley and the coast, even unto the river Jabbok which is the border of the children of Ammon,

¹³ But fear the LORD thy God and serve him, and swear by his name,

¹ If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and give thee a sign or a wonder -

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 Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam, but turned the curse to a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

¹⁵ Give him his hire the same day, and let not the sun go down thereon. For he is needy and therewith sustaineth his life, lest he cry against thee unto the LORD and it be sin unto thee.

⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, 'The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people.

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;

⁵⁴ so that it shall grieve the man that is tender, and exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left -

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.

²¹ And then, when much mischief and tribulation is come upon them, this song shall answer before them, and be a witness. It shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about even now before I have brought them into the land which I sware."

²⁶ "Take the book of this law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and let it be there for a witness unto thee.

³⁶ "For the LORD will do justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they shall be prisoned and forsaken.

⁵ and said unto them, "Get you before the ark of the LORD your God, even into the midst of Jordan, and take up every man a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, 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." ⁸ And the children of Israel did even so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD said unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them away with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. ⁹ And thereto Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood. And there they be, even unto this day.

²⁰ And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua pitched in Gilgal. ²¹ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask you in time to come saying, 'What mean these stones?' ²² Show your children and say, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.' ²³ For the LORD your God dried up the water of Jordan before you, until ye were over, as the LORD your God did unto the reed sea, which he dried up before us till we were over; ²⁴ that all the people of the world may know the hand of the LORD how mighty it is, and that ye might fear the LORD your God forever."

¹⁹ And Joshua said unto Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and give him praise, and show me what thou hast done, and hide it not from me."

²³ And they took them out of the midst of his tent and brought them unto Joshua and unto all the children of Israel, and poured them out before the LORD.

²⁶ And they cast upon him a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day. And so the LORD turned from his fierce wrath. Wherefore the name of the place is called the valley of Achor unto this day.

⁸ For the other half, with the Reubenites and the Gadites, have received their inheritance already which Moses gave them beyond Jordan eastward: even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them: ⁹ from Aroer that lieth on the brim of the river Arnon, with the city in the midst of the river. And all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

²⁷ but it shall be a witness between us and you and our generations after us, that we should serve the LORD, with our offerings, sacrifices and peace offerings: and that your children should not say to ours in time to come: ye have no part in the LORD.'

² And Joshua said unto all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the water in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and served strange gods.

² And Joshua said unto all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the water in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and served strange gods. ³ But I took your father Abraham from the other side of the water, and brought him into the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

²⁵ And so Joshua made a covenant with the people the same day and set ordinances and laws before them in Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone and pitched it on end in the said place, even under an oak that stood in the sanctuary of the LORD. ²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake with us. It shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye lie unto your God."

²⁷ And Joshua said unto all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake with us. It shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye lie unto your God."

²⁷ Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD bade him. But because he durst not do it by day for fear of his father's household and of the men of the city, he did it by night.

³¹ And Joash said unto all that stood by him, "Will ye fight for Baal, or will ye be his defenders? He that striveth for him shall die this morning. If he be a god, let him strive with him that cast down his altar!"

¹⁷ Then the children of Ammon gathered together and pitched in Gilead. And the children of Israel gathered them together and pitched in Mizpeh. ¹⁸ And the company of the lords of Gilead said each to other, "Whosoever will begin the battle against the children of Ammon, the same shall be head over all the inhabiters of Gilead."

¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD be witness between us if we do not according to thy words." ¹¹ Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead. And the people made him head and ruler over them. And Jephthah rehearsed all his words in Mizpeh.

²⁹ Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. And he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh that lieth in Gilead, and from thence unto the children of Ammon.

⁴ And he restored the money again unto his mother. Then his mother took two hundred silverlings and put them to a goldsmith, to make thereof a graven image and a image of metal, which remained in the house of Micah. ⁵ And the man Micah had a chapel of gods, and made an ephod and images, and filled the hand of one of his sons which became his priest.

¹⁴ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, "Know ye not that there is in these houses an ephod and images; and a graven image and an image of metal? Now therefore consider what ye have to do." ¹⁵ And they turned thitherward and came to the house of the young man the Levite in the house of Micah, and saluted him peaceably. ¹⁶ And the six hundred men girded with weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood in the entering of the gate. ¹⁷ And the five men that went to spy out the land, went in thither and took the carved image and the ephod, the graven image, and the image of metal. And the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were armed unto battle, ¹⁸ while the other went to Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, the graven image and the image of metal. Then said the priest unto them, "What do ye?" ¹⁹ And they answered him, "Hold thy peace, and put thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be unto us a father and a priest. Whether is it better for thee to be a priest? Unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe or a kindred in Israel?" ²⁰ And the priest was glad and took the ephod and the images, and the graven image, and went with the people. ²¹ And they turned and departed, and put the children, the cattle and their costly things before them. ²² When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses that were by Micah's house, made an outcry, and followed after the children of Dan and called unto them. ²³ And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, "What aileth thee, that thou makest an outcry?" ²⁴ And he said, "Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and also the priest, and go your ways with them! And what have I more? How then say ye unto me, 'What aileth thee?'"

²⁴ And he said, "Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and also the priest, and go your ways with them! And what have I more? How then say ye unto me, 'What aileth thee?'"

³¹ And they set them up the carved image which Micah made, all the while that the house of God was in Shiloh.

⁹ And the LORD grant you that you may find rest, either of you in the house of her husband." And so she kissed them.

¹⁴ Therewith they cried and wept again. Howbeit, Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth abode still by her.

¹¹ And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said "We are witnesses: the LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and Lea, which twain did build the house of Israel: that she may do virtuously in Ephrata, and be famous in Bethlehem,

⁴ And the LORD called Samuel; and he said, "Here am I."

⁶ And the LORD called once again, "Samuel." And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "I am here, thou didst call me." And he answered, "I called thee not my son. Go again and take thy rest."

⁸ And the LORD went and called Samuel the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "I am here, for thou hast called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD had called the lad.

¹⁶ Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son." And he answered, "Here I am."

² and brought it unto the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. ³ And when they of Ashdod were up in the morning, behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon and set him in his place again. ⁴ And when they were up early in the next morning behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and his two hands cut off upon the threshold, that the body only was left on him. ⁵ Wherefore neither the priests of Dagon, neither any man that cometh into Dagon's house might tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day. ⁶ But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids; both Ashdod and all the coasts thereof.

⁵ Then said Samuel, "Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, that I may pray for you unto the LORD." ⁶ And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted the same day, and said there, "We have sinned against the LORD." And Samuel judged the causes of the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again."

³ Behold, here I am. Answer me before the LORD and before his anointed, whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Whom have I done wrong to? Or whom have I oppressed? And of whose hand have I received any bribe, to blind mine eyes therewith? And I will restore it you again." ⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand."

⁴ And they said, "Thou hast done us no wrong, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken ought of any man's hand." ⁵ Then said he to them, "The LORD is witness unto you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have found nought in my hands." And they answered, "We are witnesses."

⁵ Then said he to them, "The LORD is witness unto you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have found nought in my hands." And they answered, "We are witnesses."

¹³ Then said Samuel to Saul, "Thou hast done foolishly and hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God which he commanded thee. For at this time would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel forever.

²⁴ And the men of Israel joined themselves together that day: and Saul adjured the people, saying, "Cursed be he that eateth any food until night, that I may be avenged of mine enemies." And so there was none of the people that tasted any sustenance. ²⁵ And all the land came to a wood where honey lay upon the ground. ²⁶ And when the people were come into the wood: Behold, the honey dropped. Howbeit, there was no man that moved his hand to his mouth, because that the people feared the curse. ²⁷ But Jonathan heard not when his father adjured the people, wherefore he put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and dipped it in a honey comb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes received sight. ²⁸ Then spake one of the people, and said, "Thy father adjured the people, saying, 'Cursed be the man that eateth any sustenance this day.'" And yet the people were fainty. ²⁹ Then said Jonathan, "My father hath troubled the land: for see, mine eyes hath received sight, because I tasted a little of this honey.

⁴³ Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what thou hast done." And Jonathan told him and said, "I tasted a little honey upon the end of my staff that was in mine hand, and see, I must die."

²⁹ And David answered, "What have I now done? Is there any more, save a word?"

³⁴ Then said David unto Saul, "As thy servant kept his father's sheep, there came a Lion and likewise a Bear, and took a sheep out of the flock. ³⁵ And I went out after him and smote him, and took it out of his mouth. And when he arose against me, I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him.

⁹ Wherefore Saul looked sourly upon David from that day forward. ¹⁰ And it happened on the morrow, that the evil spirit sent of God came upon Saul, so that he prophesied in the midst of the house. And David played on the instrument with his hand as he was daily wont. ¹¹ And Saul had a spear in his hand, and hurled it; intending to have nailed David to the wall. But David avoided out of his presence two times.

⁷ Then Jonathan called David and showed him all those words, and brought him to Saul. And he was in his presence as in times past.

¹³ And then she took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed with goat's hair under the head of it, and covered it with a cloth.

¹⁴ And thou shalt perform unto me the mercy of the LORD, not only while I live; but even when I am dead pluck not thy mercy away from my house forever. ¹⁵ No, not when the LORD hath destroyed the enemies of David, every one, from the face of the earth." ¹⁶ And so Jonathan made a bond with the house of David, desiring that the LORD should seek, out of the hands of David's enemies, their wickedness. ¹⁷ And with other words Jonathan adjured David, because he loved him. For as his own soul he loved him.

² and had taken the women that were therein prisoners, both small and great: but slew not a man, save carried them with them and went their ways.

¹⁷ And David laid upon them from the twilight until the evening on the morrow: so that there escaped not a man, save four hundred young men which rode away upon camels and fled.

²⁰ And when Abner was come to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him: David made him and the men that were with him a feast. ²¹ Then Abner said unto David, "I will up and go gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make an appointment with thee, that thou mayest be king over all that thine heart desireth." And so David let Abner depart, and he went in peace.

²¹ And there they left their images, and David and his men took them up.

²² And Absalom said unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad. Howbeit, Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit that was in the wood, and cast a mighty great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

¹⁹ And thereupon Bathsheba went unto king Solomon to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up against her and bowed himself unto her, and sat him down on his seat. And there was a seat set for the king's mother, and she sat on his right side.

⁵ And in Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, "Ask what I shall give thee."

²² Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah, that none should be excused. And they took the stones of Ramah and the timber wherewith Baasha had built, and king Asa built therewith Geba in Benjamin and Mizphah.

¹ And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it."

²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow thee." And he said to him, "Go back again, for what have I done to thee?"

¹¹ And Naaman was wroth and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought in myself, he would have come out, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and put his hand on the place of the disease, and so take away the leprosy.

¹⁷ Then came Hazael king of Syria, and fought against Gath and took it, and appointed himself to go up to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ And the man of God was angry with him and said, "Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times, and then thou hadst smitten the Syrians till thou hadst consumed them: where now thou shalt beat them but thrice."

¹⁰ "Thus say to Hezekiah king of Juda, 'Let not thy God carry thee out of the way, in whom thou so trustest, saying: Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹⁷ And David went out to them and answered and said to them, "If ye be come peaceably unto me, to help me, mine heart shall be together with you. But and if you come to beguile me and to be mine adversary, seeing there is no wickedness in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon and rebuke it."

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."

¹² But when the Jews that dwelt beside them came out of all the places where they dwelt about us, and told us - as good as ten times -

⁸ and said unto them, "We, after our ability, have bought our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the Heathen. And will ye sell your brethren, whom we have bought unto us?" Then held they their peace, and could find nothing to answer.

¹¹ and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king.

¹ The same day did king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, unto queen Esther. And Mordecai came before the king: for Esther told how that he belonged unto her. ² And the king put off his finger ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

¹⁰ Hast thou not preserved him, his house, and all his substance on every side? Hast thou not blessed the work of his hands? Is not his possession increased in the land?

¹² Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand; ¹³ which compasseth the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked.

³ Lo, ten times have ye reproved me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me to scorn?

⁸ "He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

¹¹ They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance. ¹² They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure. ¹³ They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell. ¹⁴ They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

²⁴ "Have I put my trust in gold? Or, have I said to the finest gold of all, 'Thou art my confidence?' ²⁵ Have I rejoiced because my substance was great, and because my hand gat so much?

³¹ Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'

¹⁵ In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds - ¹⁶ he roundeth them in the ears, he informeth them, and showeth them plainly, ¹⁷ that it is he, which withdraweth man from evil, delivereth him from pride,

²⁵ Then his flesh, which hath been in misery and trouble, shall be as it was in his youth.

⁵ "Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

¹⁴ From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy; for thou hast considered my trouble,

²⁸ For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.

¹⁰ Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.

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.

¹⁶ Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich, or if the glory of his house be increased; ¹⁷ for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

¹⁰ For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills.

¹⁵ And call upon me in the time of trouble; so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me."

¹ {To the Chanter, an exhortation of David when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul, and showed him, saying: David is come to the house of Abimelech} Thy boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief, whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?

⁴ I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

³ who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words, ⁴ That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.

¹⁰ The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise; and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. ¹¹ Look what ye promise unto the LORD your God: see that ye keep it, all ye that be round about him; bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. ¹² Which taketh away the breath of princes, and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.

⁷⁰ He chose David also his servant, and took him away from the sheepfolds. ⁷¹ As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

¹⁵ Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast plagued us, and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

¹⁴ He suffered no man to hurt them, but reproved even kings for their sakes, ¹⁵ "Touch not mine anointed, do my prophets no harm."

³ What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue? ⁴ Even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals. ⁵ Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Meshech, and to have my habitation among the tents of Kedar!

¹ {A song of the stairs} If the LORD himself had not been on our side - now may Israel say - ² If the LORD himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us, ³ they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

³ Thou art about my path and about my bed, and spiest out all my ways.

²² which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

³⁰ A merry heart is the life of the body; but rancor consumeth away the bones.

⁷ When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh his very enemies to be his friends.

²³ Venomous lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. ²⁴ An enemy dissembleth with his lips, and in the mean season he imagineth mischief; ²⁵ but when he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. ²⁶ Whoso keepeth evil will secretly, to do hurt, his malice shall be showed before the whole congregation.

⁴ Wrath is a cruel thing, and furiousness is a very tempest; yea, who is able to abide envy?

¹ The ungodly fleeth, no man chasing him; but the righteous standeth stiff as a lion.

²⁵ He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

⁵ A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

⁴ Again, I saw that all travail and diligence of labour was hated of every man. This is also a vain thing, and a vexation of mind.

⁸ If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

¹ Then shall seven wives take hold of one man, and say, "We will lay all our meat and clothing together in common, only that we may be called thy wives, and that this shameful reproof may be taken from us."

¹⁴ Therefore gapeth hell, and openeth her mouth marvelous wide: that their pride, boasting, and wealth, with such as rejoice therein, may descend into it.

¹³ but sanctify the LORD of Hosts: let him be your fear and dread.

¹⁹ and cast their gods in the fire. Notwithstanding, those were no gods; but the works of men's hands, of wood or stone, therefore have they destroyed them.

²⁹ Therefore thy furiousness against me, and thy pride is come before me. I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bridle bit in the jaws of thee, and turn thee about, even the same way thou camest.

¹⁰ Be not afraid, for I will be with thee. Look not behind thee, for I will be thy God, to strengthen thee, help thee, and to keep thee with this righthand of mine.

¹ Bel is fallen, and Nebo is broken down: whose images were a burden for the beasts and cattle, to overladen them, and to make them weary. ² They are sunk down, and fallen together; for they may not ease them of their burden, therefore must they go into captivity.

¹⁷ but all the weapons that are made against thee, shall not prosper. And as for all tongues that shall resist thee in judgment, thou shalt overcome them, and condemn them. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and the righteousness that they shall have of me, sayeth the LORD.

⁹ Then shouldest thou call, and the LORD answer; then shouldest thou cry, and he shall say, "Lo, here am I. For I the LORD thy God am merciful."

²³ Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Let not the wise man rejoice in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength; neither the rich man in his riches.

¹¹ As for their gods, it may well be said of them, "They are gods, that made neither heaven nor earth: therefore shall they perish from the earth, and from all things under heaven."

²³ Because they sinned shamefully in Israel. For they have not only defiled their neighbours' wives, but also preached lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them. This I testify, and assure, sayeth the LORD.

⁵ And they said to Jeremiah, "The LORD of truth and faithfulness be our record, that we will do all that the LORD thy God commandeth us;

¹² He shall set fire upon the temples of the Egyptian gods, and burn them up, and take themselves prisoners. Moreover, he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, like as a shepherd putteth on his coat, and shall depart his way from thence in peace.

⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.

⁴⁴ "'Behold, all they that use common proverbs, shall use this proverb also against thee: 'Like mother, like daughter.'

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.

² "Thou son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and speak unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Woe be unto the shepherds of Israel, that feed themselves. Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? ³ Ye have eaten up the fat, ye have clothed you with the wool: the best fed have ye slain, but the flock have ye not nourished. ⁴ The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again. The lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them.

⁴⁷ The king answered Daniel, and said, "Yea, of a truth your God is a God above all gods, and LORD above all kings, and an opener of secrets: seeing thou canst discover this mystery."

¹⁹ Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of indignation, so that the countenance of his face changed upon Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Therefore he charged and commanded, that the oven should be made seven times hotter, than it was wont to be:

²⁸ Then spake Nebuchadnezzar, and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: which hath sent his angel, and defended his servants that put their trust in him: that have altered the king's commandment, and jeopardized their bodies thereupon, rather than they would serve or worship any other god except their own God only.

²⁰ Now as he came nigh unto the den, he cried with a piteous voice unto Daniel: Yea, the king spake, and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, thou servant of the living God, is not thy God, whom thou alway servest, able to deliver thee from the lions?"

²⁶ My commandment is, in all my dominion and kingdom, that men fear and stand in awe of Daniel's God. For he is the living God, which abideth ever: his kingdom shall not fail and his power is everlasting.

⁴ Thus the children of Israel shall sit a great while without king and prince, without offering and alter, without priest and revelation.

¹ O ye priests, hear this; take heed, O thou household of Israel; give ear, O thou kingly house. For this punishment will come upon you, that are become a snare unto Mizphah, and a spread net unto the mount of Tabor.

¹² Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

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.

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.'"

¹⁴ And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.

⁵ I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

²⁰ While he thus thought, Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: For that which is conceived in her is of the holy ghost.

¹² And after they were warned of God in a dream that they should not go again to Herod, they returned into their own country another way.

⁸ The devil took him up again and led him into an exceeding high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and all the glory of them;

¹⁶ But if he hear thee not, then take yet with thee one or two, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, all things may be established.

⁵ and said, 'For this thing, shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.' ⁶ Wherefore now are they not twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder, that which God hath coupled together."

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do as me listeth, with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

¹⁹ When he was set down to give judgment, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that just man, I have suffered many things this day in a dream about him."

⁵ And he looked round about on them, angrily mourning on the blindness of their hearts. And said to the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out: And his hand was restored, even as whole as the other.

⁸ And there were in the same region shepherds abiding in the field, and watching their flock by night.

⁵¹ And it followed, when the time was come that he should be received up, then he set his face to go to Jerusalem: ⁵² and sent messengers before him. And they went, and entered into a city of the Samaritans to make ready for him. ⁵³ But they would not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

¹² An hired servant which is not the shepherd, neither the sheep are his own, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flyeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. ¹³ The hired servant flyeth because he is a hired servant, and careth not for the sheep.

³⁵ Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and high priests have delivered thee unto me. What hast thou done?"

¹⁰ Then said Pilate unto him, "Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to loose thee?" ¹¹ Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given unto thee from above. Therefore he that delivered me unto thee, is more in sin."

¹⁵ When they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord, thou knowest, that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my lambs." ¹⁶ He said to him again the second time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" He said unto him, "Yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee." He said unto him, "Feed my sheep." ¹⁷ He said unto him the third time, "Simon the son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" And Peter sorrowed because he said to him the third time, "Lovest thou me," and said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee." Jesus said unto him, "Feed my sheep.

³⁸ And now I say unto you: refrain yourselves from these men, let them alone: For if the counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: ³⁹ but and if it be of God, ye cannot destroy it, lest haply ye be found to strive against God."

³⁴ I have perfectly seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now, come: and I will send thee into Egypt.'

⁵ And he said, "What art thou, Lord?" And the Lord said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it shall be hard for thee to kick against the prick."

³⁷ And they wept all abundantly, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him:

⁴ When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "This man must needs be a murderer: Whom, though he have escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live." ⁵ But he shook off the vermin into the fire, and felt no harm.

¹⁴ For the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are but foolishness unto him: Neither can he perceive them, because he is spiritually examined.

⁴ If ye have judgments of worldly matters, take them which are despised in the congregation, and make them judges. ⁵ This I say to your shame. Is there utterly no wise man among you? What, not one at all? That can judge between brother and brother?

¹⁰ But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.

²⁰ For this we eschew, that any man should rebuke us in this plenteous distribution that is ministered by us, ²¹ and therefore make provision for honest things, not in the sight of God only, but also in the sight of men.

²⁶ In journeying often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers; in jeopardies of mine own nation, in jeopardies among the heathen. I have been in perils in cities, in perils in wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

¹⁷ Did I defraud you by any of them which I sent unto you? ¹⁸ I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother: Did Titus defraud you of any thing? Walked we not in one spirit? Walked we not in like steps? ¹⁹ Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves? We speak in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

²⁶ Be angry, but sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

¹ Children, obey your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for so is it right.

⁵ Servants, be obedient unto your carnal masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your hearts, as unto Christ: ⁶ not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart ⁷ with good will, even as though serving the Lord and not men. ⁸ And remember that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, that shall he receive again of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. ⁹ And ye masters, do even the same things unto them, putting away threatenings: and remember that even your master also is in heaven, neither is there any respect of person with him.

²² Servants, be obedient unto your bodily masters in all things: not with eye service as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart fearing God. ²³ And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as though ye did it to the Lord, and not unto men, ²⁴ forasmuch as ye know that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of inheritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. ²⁵ But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong that he hath done: for there is no respect of persons.

⁵ Neither was our conversation at any time with flattering words — as ye well know — neither in cloaked covetousness, God is record:

¹⁰ Ye are witnesses, and so is God, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

⁴ he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings

⁹ The servants exhort to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please in all things, not answering again, ¹⁰ neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

³ For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

⁹ By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

¹ Wherefore let us also — seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses — lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,

⁵ Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with that ye have already. For he verily said, "I will not fail thee, neither forsake thee."

⁷ Remember them which have the oversight of you, which have declared unto you the word of God: consider the conversation of their living, the end of whose conversation see that ye look upon, and follow their faith.

¹⁸ Pray for us. We have confidence because we have a good conscience in all things, and desire to live honestly.

¹⁹ Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. ²⁰ For the wrath of man worketh not that which is righteous before God.

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass; the grass is withered, and the flower falleth away,

¹² and see that ye have honest conversation among the gentiles, that they which backbite you as evil doers, may see your good works and praise God in the day of visitation.

¹⁸ Servants obey your masters with all fear, not only if they be good and courteous: but also though they be froward.

⁶ even as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him "Lord" — whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, not being afraid of every shadow.

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that when they backbite you as evil doers, they may be ashamed, forasmuch as they have falsely accused your good conversation in Christ.

² see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind. ³ Not as though ye were lords over the parishes: but that ye be an example to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an incorruptible crown of glory.

⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, when he strove against the devil, and disputed the body of Moses, durst not give railing sentence, but said, "The Lord rebuke thee."