Exodus 23 Cross References - Rotherham

¹ Thou shalt not utter a false report. Do not lay thy hand with a lawless man, to become a witness helping forward violence and wrong. ² Thou shalt not follow multitudes to commit wickedness,––neither shalt thou answer in a quarrel, so as to turn away after multitudes to mislead. ³ Even a poor man, shalt thou not prefer in his quarrel. ⁴ When thou meetest the ox of thine enemy, or his ass, going astray, thou shalt, surely bring it back, to him. ⁵ When thou seest the ass of him that hateth thee, sinking down under his burden, and mightest have foreborne to unload him, thou shalt, surely help him to unload. ⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the vindication of thy needy one, in his quarrel. ⁷ From a matter of falsehood, thou shalt keep far away,––and, the innocent one and the righteous, do not thou slay, for I will not justify a lawless man. ⁸ And, a bribe, shalt thou not take,––for, the bribe, blindeth the clear–sighted, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ⁹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not drive away,––seeing that, ye yourselves, know the soul of a sojourner; for, sojourners, became ye in the land of Egypt.
¹⁰ And, six years, shalt thou sow thy land,––and shalt gather the yield thereof; ¹¹ but, the seventh year, shalt thou let it rest and be still, so shall the needy of thy people eat, and, what they leave, shall the wild–beast of the field eat,––in like manner, shalt thou deal with thy vineyard, with thine oliveyard. ¹² Six days, shalt thou do thy work, but, on the seventh day, shalt thou keep sabbath,––that thine ox may rest, and thine ass, and that the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed. ¹³ And, in all that I have said unto thee, shalt thou take heed to thyself,––and, the name of other gods, shalt thou not mention, it shall not be heard upon thy mouth. ¹⁴ Three times, shalt thou keep festival to me, in the year. ¹⁵ The festival of unleavened cakes, shalt thou keep,––seven days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes, as I commanded thee, at the appointed time of the month Abib; for, therein, camest thou forth out of Egypt,––and they shall not see my face, empty–handed. ¹⁶ And the festival of harvest, with the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou shalt sow in the field. And the festival of ingathering––at the outgoing of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours, out of the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year, shall all thy males see the face of the Lord Yahweh. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not offer, with anything leavened, the blood of my sacrifice,––neither shall the fat of my festival–sacrifice remain until morning. ¹⁹ The beginning of the firstfruits of thy ground, shalt thou bring into the house of Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.
²⁰ Lo! I, am sending a messenger before thee, to guard thee in the way,––and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. ²¹ Take thou heed of his presence, and hearken to his voice––do not vex him,––for he will not pardon your transgression, for, my name, is within him. ²² But, if thou, wilt indeed hearken, to his voice, and so wilt do all that I may speak, then will I be an enemy to thine enemies, and an adversary to thine adversaries; ²³ for my messenger shall go before thee, and bring thee in––unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,––so will I destroy them. ²⁴ Thou shalt not bow thyself down to their gods, neither shalt thou be led to serve them, neither shalt thou do according to their works,––but thou shalt, verily overthrow, them, and, completely break in pieces, their pillars. ²⁵ So shall ye serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water,––and I will take away sickness out of thy midst. ²⁶ There shall be nothing casting its young or barren, in thy land,––the number of thy days, will I make full. ²⁷ My terror, will I send before thee, and will confound all the people, amongst whom thou shalt come, and will deliver up all thine enemies unto thee as they flee. ²⁸ And I will send the hornet, before thee,––and it shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. ²⁹ I will not drive them out from before thee, in one year,––lest the land should become a desolation, so would the wild–beast of the field multiply over thee. ³⁰ Little by little, will I drive them out from before thee,––until thou become fruitful, then shalt thou take possession of the land. ³¹ So will I set thy bounds from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert, unto the River[=Euphrates], ––for I will deliver into your hand the inhabitants of the land, so shalt thou drive them out from before thee. ³² Thou shalt not make, with them or with their gods, a covenant: ³³ they shall not dwell in thy land, lest they cause, thee, to sin against, me,––for thou mightest serve their gods, verily! it would become to thee, a snare!

¹⁶ Thou shalt not testify against thy neighbour, with a witness of falsehood.

⁷ From a matter of falsehood, thou shalt keep far away,––and, the innocent one and the righteous, do not thou slay, for I will not justify a lawless man.

¹¹ Ye shall not steal,––nor deceive nor lie, one man to another;

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go about talebearing, among thy people, Thou shalt not stand by, over the blood of thy neighbour: I, am Yahweh.

²⁰ Neither shalt thou testify against thy neighbour, with a witness of falsehood:

¹⁶ When there shall rise up a wrongful witness against a man,––to answer against him, perversely, ¹⁷ then shall the two men who are at variance, stand before Yahweh,––before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days; ¹⁸ and the judges shall make diligent inquisition,––and lo! if the witness be, a false witness and, falsely, have answered against his brother, ¹⁹ then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to de unto his brother,––so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst; ²⁰ and, they who remain, shall hear and fear,––and not go on to do again according to this wicked thing, in thy midst: ²¹ neither shall thine eye pity,––life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

³ Then said the king, And where is thy lord’s son? And Ziba said unto the king––Lo! abiding in Jerusalem, for he said, Today, will the house of Israel, restore unto me, the kingdom of my father.

²⁷ And he hath slandered thy servant, unto my lord the king,––but, my lord the king, is as a messenger of God, do therefore what is good in thine own eyes.

¹⁰ then let two reckless men take their seats before him, that they may bear witness against him, saying, Thou hast reviled God and king! then shall ye carry him forth and stone him, that he die. ¹¹ So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did just as Jezebel had sent unto them,––as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them: ¹² they proclaimed a fast,––and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people. ¹³ Then came in the two reckless men, and sat before him, and the men bare witness against him, even against Naboth, before the people, saying, Naboth hath reviled God and king! So they carried him forth, outside the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.

³ Hath not carried slander on his tongue, hath not done his friend a wrong, nor, a reproach, taken up against his neighbour;

¹² Do not give me up unto the desire of mine adversaries, for there have risen up against me witnesses that are false, and he that fanneth up violence.

¹¹ There rise up witnesses helping forward violence and wrong, What I know not, they demand of me:

⁵ He that uttereth slander in secret against his friend, him, will I root out; One of lofty eyes, and of an ambitious heart, him shall I not be able to endure.

³ What shall be given to thee, and what shall be added to thee, thou deceitful tongue?

¹⁹ One that uttereth lies––a false witness, and one sending forth strifes between brethren.

¹⁸ He that concealeth hatred, hath false lips, and he that sendeth forth slander, the same, is a dullard.

¹⁷ He that whispereth faithfulness, declareth righteousness, but, a false witness, is a fraud.

⁴ Discord, giveth heed to the aggrieving lip,––Falsehood, giveth ear to the destroying tongue.

⁵ A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall not escape.

⁹ A false witness, shall not be held innocent, and, he that uttereth lies, shall perish.

²⁸ An abandoned witness, scorneth justice, and, the mouth of lawless men, swalloweth iniquity.

²⁸ A false witness, shall perish, but, the man who hearkeneth, with abiding effect, shall speak.

²⁸ Do not become a needless witness against thy neighbour, so mightest thou open too wide thy lips:

¹⁸ A hammer and a sword, and a sharpened arrow, is a man becoming a false witness against his neighbour.

²³ A north wind, bringeth forth rain, and, a face stirred with indignation, a secretive tongue.

¹⁰ Because I have heard the whispering of many––"A terror round about!" Tell ye [say they], that we may tell of him, All the men I am wont to salute, do watch for my halting,––Peradventure, he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail over him, and take our vengeance upon him.

¹⁸ He saith unto him, Which? Jesus, said––These: Thou shalt not commit murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal,––Thou shalt not bear false witness;

⁵⁹ Now, the High–priests and all the High–council, were seeking false–witness against Jesus, that they might, put him to death; ⁶⁰ and found not any, though many came forward as false–witnesses. At length, however, there came forward, two, ⁶¹ and said: This, man said––I am able to pull down the shrine of God, and, in three days, to, build, it.

¹⁴ And, if this be reported unto the governor, we, will persuade him, and will make, you, free from care. ¹⁵ And, they, taking the pieces of silver, did as they were instructed. And this account was spread abroad among the Jews. . . until this [very] day.

¹⁴ Then were questioning him, soldiers also, saying––What shall, even we, do? And he said unto them––Molest ye, no one, neither accuse falsely; and be content with your supplies.

⁸ But, taking his stand, Zacchaeus said unto the Lord––Lo! the half of my possessions, Lord, unto the destitute, I give; and, if, from anyone, I have taken aught by false accusation, I give back fourfold.

¹¹ Then, they set on men who were saying––We have heard him speaking profane things against Moses and God. ¹² And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes; and, coming upon him, they caught him away, and led him into the high–council. ¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said––This man, ceaseth not speaking things against this holy place and the law;

⁸ And why not, according as we are injuriously charged, [and] according as some affirm that we say, Let us do the bad things, that the good ones may come? whose sentence is, just.

²⁵ Wherefore, stripping off what is false, be speaking truth each one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

³ without natural affection, accepting no truce, given to intrigue, without self–control, uncivilized, unfriendly to good men,

¹⁶ Having, a good conscience, in order that, wherein they speak against you, they may be put to shame who cast wanton insult on, your good behaviour in Christ.

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying––Now, hath come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; because the accuser of our brethren hath been cast out, who was accusing them before our God day and night;

¹² And God beheld the earth, and lo! it had corrupted itself,––surely all flesh had corrupted its way, on the earth.

¹ And Yahweh said to Noah, Enter, thou and all thy house, into the ark,––for, thee, have I seen righteous before me, in this generation.

⁴ Ere yet they lay down, the men of the city––the men of Sodom, had come round against the house, from youth, even unto age,––all the people from every quarter.

⁷ And he said,––Do not, I pray you, my brethren, act wickedly. ⁸ Behold, I pray you, I, have two daughters who have not known man, I must needs, now, bring, them, forth unto you, and do ye, to them, as may be good in your eyes,––Only, to these men, ye may do nothing; for, on this account, have they come under the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Stand back, And they said, This one, by himself, hath come in to sojourn, and must always be acting the judge, Now, will we do more wickedly to thee, than to them. So they pressed sore upon the man––upon Lot––exceedingly, and drew near to break open the door.

⁶ Thou shalt not pervert the vindication of thy needy one, in his quarrel. ⁷ From a matter of falsehood, thou shalt keep far away,––and, the innocent one and the righteous, do not thou slay, for I will not justify a lawless man.

¹ And, when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him––Up, make for us gods, who shall go before us, for, as for this Moses––the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what hath befallen him. ² And Aaron said unto them, Break off the rings of gold, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,––and bring them unto me. ³ And all the people of themselves brake off the rings of gold which were in their ears,––and brought them unto Aaron. ⁴ And he received [the gold] at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf,––and they said––These, are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up, out of the land of Egypt. ⁵ And, when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made proclamation, and said, A festival to Yahweh, tomorrow!

¹⁵ Ye shall not act perversely in giving judgment, Thou shalt neither respect the person of the poor, Nor prefer the person of the great,––In righteousness, shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

¹ Then did all the assembly lift up, and give forth their voice,––and the people wept throughout that night. ² And all the sons of Israel, murmured against Moses and against Aaron,––and all the assembly said unto them––Oh that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or, in this wilderness, oh that we had died! ³ Wherefore, then, is Yahweh bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and little ones, will become a prey! Would it not be well for us to go back towards Egypt? ⁴ And they said, one to another,––Let us appoint a head, and let us go back towards Egypt.
⁵ Then did Moses and Aaron fall upon their faces,––before all the convocation of the assembly of the sons of Israel. ⁶ But, Joshua son of Nun, and Caleb son of Jephunneh, of them who spied out the land, rent their clothes; ⁷ and spake unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying,––As for the land through which we passed to spy it out, Good, is the land, exceedingly. ⁸ If Yahweh delight in us, then will he bring us into this land, and give it unto us,––A land which doth flow with milk and honey. ⁹ Only, against Yahweh, do not rebel. Do not, ye, fear the people of the land, For, our food, they are,––Their shade hath departed from over them, And Yahweh is with us, Do not fear them! ¹⁰ But, when all the assembly bade stone them, with stones, the glory of Yahweh, appeared, in the tent of meeting, unto all the sons of Israel.

¹⁷ Ye shall not take note of faces, in judgment––so, the small, as, the great, shall ye hear, ye shall not shrink from the face of any man, for judgment, unto God, belongeth,––but, the thing which is too hard for you, shall ye bring near unto me, and I will hear it.

¹⁹ Thou shalt not wrest judgment, thou shalt not take note of faces,––nor shalt thou accept a bribe, for, the bribe, blindeth the eyes of wise men, and perverteth the words of righteous men.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the sojourner [or] the fatherless,––neither shalt thou take in pledge the garment of a widow;

¹⁵ But, if it be, a vexation, in your eyes, to serve Yahweh, choose ye for yourselves, today, whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served, that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye are dwelling,––but, I and my house, will serve Yahweh.

⁹ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and the oxen and the lambs, also the fatlings, and all that was good, and would not devote them to destruction,––but, all the cattle that was contemptible and diseased, that, devoted they to destruction.

¹⁰ And he said––Very jealous, have I been, for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the sons of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thine altars, have they thrown down, thy prophets, also have they slain with the sword,––and, I alone, am left, and they have sought my life, to take it.

³⁴ Then let me be made to tremble at a great throng, yea let, the contempt of families, terrify me, so that, keeping silence, I shall not go out of the door!

² May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent. ¹¹ If they say––Come with us,––Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us watch in secret for him who is needlessly innocent;

¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path.

¹⁴ Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked:

¹⁵ Then were the princes wroth, against Jeremiah, and smote him,––and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for, that, had they made the prison.

²¹ Then King Zedekiah gave command and they committed Jeremiah into the guard–court, and [said] that there should be given him a cake of bread daily, out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread out of the city, should be spent. So Jeremiah remained, in the guard–court.

⁵ Then said King Zedekiah,––Lo! he, is in your hand; for, the king, is not, one who is able to do anything, against, you. ⁶ Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah son of the king, which was in the guard–court, and they let Jeremiah down with ropes,––now, in the dungeon, was no, water, only mire, so Jeremiah sank, in the mire.

⁹ My lord, O King! wickedly, have these men done all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom indeed they have cast into the dungeon,––since he would have died where he was, because of the famine, for there is no, bread any longer, in the city.

⁹ And he said unto me, the iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah, is, exceeding, great, and the land is filled, with shed blood, and, the city, is full of over–reaching,––for they have said, Yahweh hath forsaken, the land,––and, Yahweh doth not, see.

⁴ Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?

²⁴ And Pilate, seeing, that, nothing, it availed, but rather, a tumult, was arising, taking water, washed his hands of it before the multitude, saying––Innocent, am I, of the blood of this man,––Ye, shall see to it for yourselves. ²⁵ And all the people, answering, said––His blood be upon us and upon our children!
²⁶ Then released he unto them Barabbas, but, scourging, Jesus, delivered him up, that he might be crucified.

¹⁵ And Pilate, being minded to do what would satisfy, the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, having scourged him, that he should be crucified.

²³ But they became urgent with loud voices, claiming to have him crucified; and their voices began to prevail. ²⁴ And, Pilate, consented, that their request should be granted;

⁵¹ (the same had not consented unto their plan and deed), ––from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was awaiting the kingdom of God,

⁵⁰ Nicodemus saith unto them––he that came unto him formerly, being, one, from among them–– ⁵¹ Surely, our law, doth not judge the man, unless it hear first from him, and get to know what he is doing?

²⁷ When, however, two years, were completed, Felix, was succeeded, by Porcius Festus, and Felix, wishing to gain favour with the Jews, left Paul bound.

⁹ But, Festus, wishing, with the Jews, to gain, favour, answered Paul, and said––Art thou willing, unto Jerusalem, to go up, and, there, concerning these things, be judged before me?

³² Who, indeed, having acknowledged the righteous sentence of God,––that, they who such things as these do practise, are worthy of death, not only, the same things, are doing, but are even delighting together with them who are practising [them].

¹¹ But, when Cephas came unto Antioch, to the face, [even], him, I resisted, because he stood condemned; ¹² For, before that certain came from James, with them of the nations, used he to eat; whereas, when they came, he used to withdraw, and keep himself separate, fearing them of the circumcision; ¹³ And the rest of the Jews [also] used hypocrisy with him, so that, even Barnabas, was carried away by their hypocrisy.

² How long will ye judge perversely, And, the countenances of the lawless, uplift? [Selah.] ³ Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;

¹⁷ But, the wisdom from above, is––first pure, then peaceable, reasonable, easy to be entreated, fraught with mercy and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy.

¹ Thou shalt not see the ox of thy brother, or his sheep, going astray, and turn away from them,––thou shalt, bring them back, unto thy brother. ² And, if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or thou know him not, then shalt thou make room for it within thee own shed, and it shall be with thee, until thy brother seek after it, when thou shalt return it unto him. ³ And, so, shalt thou do with his ass, and, so, shalt thou do with his mantle, and, so, shalt thou do with any lost thing of thy brother’s, which shall go astray from him, and thou shalt find,––thou mayest not turn away. ⁴ Thou shalt not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox, fallen in the way, and turn away from them,––thou shalt, raise, them with him.

²⁹ If rejoiced in the misfortune of him that hated me, or exulted when calamity found him; –– ³⁰ Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

¹⁷ When thine enemy falleth, do not thou rejoice, and, when he stumbleth, let not thy heart exult: ¹⁸ Lest Yahweh see it, and it be wicked in his eyes, and he turn away from him his anger.

²¹ If he that hateth thee hunger, give him bread to eat, and, if he be thirsty, give him water to drink;

⁴⁴ But, I, say unto you, Be loving your enemies, and praying for them who are persecuting you:

²⁷ But, unto you, I say, who are hearkening: Be loving your enemies; be doing, good, unto them that hate you; ²⁸ Be blessing them that curse you; be praying for them that wantonly insult you.

¹⁷ Unto no one, evil for evil rendering: providing honourable things before all men: ¹⁸ If possible––so far as dependeth on you, with all men being at peace: ¹⁹ Not avenging, yourselves, beloved, but give place unto their anger; for it is written––Mine, is avenging, I, will recompense; ––saith the Lord; ²⁰ But––if thine enemy hunger, be feeding him, if he thirst, be giving him drink; for, this doing, coals of fire, shalt thou heap upon his head. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

¹⁵ See that none, evil for evil, unto any, do render: but, evermore, what is good, be pursuing, towards one another, and towards all:

⁴ Thou shalt not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox, fallen in the way, and turn away from them,––thou shalt, raise, them with him.

² Thou shalt not follow multitudes to commit wickedness,––neither shalt thou answer in a quarrel, so as to turn away after multitudes to mislead. ³ Even a poor man, shalt thou not prefer in his quarrel.

¹⁹ Cursed, be he that perverteth the right of the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow. And all the people shall say––Amen.

⁷ Now, therefore, let the dread of Yahweh be upon you,––observe and do, for there is, with Yahweh our God, neither perversity nor respect of persons nor the taking of bribes.

¹³ If I refused the right of my servant, or my handmaid, when they contended with me,

²¹ If I shook––against the fatherless––my hand, when I saw, in the gate, his need of my help, ²² Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder–blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

³ Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted; ⁴ Deliver the weak and the needy, Out of the hand of the lawless, make rescue.

⁸ If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter,––for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.

¹ Alas! for them who ordain iniquitous decrees,––And, busy writers, who make a business of writing, mischief: ² Turning aside, from judgment, the poor, And robbing, of justice, the oppressed of my people,––So that, widows, become, their spoil, And, of the fatherless, they make prey.

²⁸ They have waxed fat, they shine, Yea, they have overpassed the records of wickedness. The right, have they not determined, the right of the fatherless, that they might prosper,––Yea, justice to the helpless, have they not decreed.

²⁸ They all, are rebels of rebels, Slander–walkers, [They are] bronze and iron! As for them all, corrupters, they are!

⁶ The sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, shall not oppress, And, innocent blood, shall not shed in this place,––And, after other gods, shall not walk, to your own hurt,

¹¹ Therefore––because ye have trampled on the poor, and, the gift of corn, ye would take away from him, though, houses of hewn stone, ye have built, Yet shall ye not dwell in them,––Though, delightful vineyards, ye have planted, Yet shall ye not drink the wine of them. ¹² For I know how numerous are your transgressions, and how surpassing your sins,––ye adversaries of the righteous! ye acceptors of a bribe! Even the needy in the gate, have they turned away!

¹ Then said I, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel,––Is it not yours to know justice? ² Ye haters of right, and lovers of wrong,––tearing away their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; ³ Who indeed have eaten the flesh of my people, and, their skin from off them, have stript, and, their bones, have they broken in pieces,––and will spread them out, as flesh with a fork, and as flesh, in the midst of a pot. ⁴ Then, shall they make outcry unto Yahweh, but he will not answer them,––that he may hide his face from them, at that time, even as they have made wicked their doings.

¹ Alas for her that is rebellious, and polluted, the city that oppresseth! ² She hath hearkened to no voice, accepted no correction; in Yahweh, hath not trusted, to her God, hath not drawn near: ³ Her rulers in her midst, are roaring lions,––her judges, evening wolves, they have left nothing until morning! ⁴ Her prophets, are reckless, treacherous men! her priests, have profaned the holy, done violence to law. ⁵ Therefore will I draw near unto you for judgment, and will become a swift witness against the mutterers of incantations, and against the adulterers, and against them that swear to a falsehood,––and against them who rob the hire of the hireling, the widow and the fatherless, and that drive away the sojourner, and do not revere me, saith Yahweh of hosts.

⁵ Hearken! my brethren beloved:––Hath not, God, chosen the destitute in the world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? ⁶ Whereas, ye, have dishonoured the destitute man! Do not, the rich, oppress you? and, themselves, drag you into courts of justice?

¹³ Thou shalt not commit murder.

¹ Thou shalt not utter a false report. Do not lay thy hand with a lawless man, to become a witness helping forward violence and wrong.

⁷ Keeping lovingkindness to a thousand generations, Forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, Though he leave not, utterly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers Upon sons, And upon sons’ sons, Unto a third and unto a fourth generation.

²⁵ Cursed, be he that taketh a bribe to shed innocent blood. And all the people shall say––Amen.

²³ If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent,

¹⁴ Upon the path of the lawless, do not thou enter, and do not advance in the way of the wicked: ¹⁵ Avoid it, do not pass thereon––turn from it, and depart.

¹⁵ He that justifieth the lawless, and he that condemneth the righteous, an abomination to Yahweh, are they, both.

¹⁵ He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly,––He that refuseth the gain of exactions, That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,

³ Yahweh, is slow to anger, but great in vigour, He will not leave, unpunished, as for Yahweh, in storm–wind and in tempest, is his way, and, clouds, are the dust of his feet.

¹⁸ For there is being revealed an anger of God from heaven––against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who, the truth, in unrighteousness, do hold down; ––

⁵ But, according to thy hardness, and [thine] impenitent heart, art treasuring up for thyself anger, in a day of anger and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,–– ⁶ Who will render unto each one according to his works:––

²² From every form of wickedness, abstain.

¹⁷ For, as touching Yahweh your God, he, is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the great, the mighty, and the fearful GOD, who respecteth not persons, nor accepteth a bribe;

³ Howbeit his sons walked not in his ways, but stooped to extortion,––and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

³ Behold me! testify against me, before Yahweh, and before his Anointed––Whose, ox, have I taken? or whose, ass, have I taken? or whom have I oppressed? Whom have I crushed? or at whose, hands, have I taken a bribe, to cover up mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it unto you.

¹⁰ In whose hands is a plot, and, their right hand, is filled with a bribe.

²⁷ He, troubleth his own house, who graspeth with greed, but, he that hateth gifts, shall live.

⁸ A gift, in the eyes of its owner, is, a stone of beauty, whithersoever it turneth, it bringeth prosperity.

²³ A bribe out of his bosom, doth a lawless man take, to pervert the ways of justice.

⁴ Wealth, addeth many friends, but, the poor man, from his own friend, is parted.

⁷ For, oppression, maddeneth the wise,––and a bribe, destroyeth the understanding.

¹³ Ye shall not again, bring in an empty, present, Incense, an abomination, is that, unto me! New moon, and sabbath, calling an assembly––I cannot endure, iniquity and sacred festival!

²³ Who justify the lawless, for a bribe,––Whereas, the righteousness of the righteous, they take from him.

¹² Bribes, have they accepted in thee, For the sake of shedding blood,––Interest and increase, hast thou accepted, And thou hast overreached thy neighbour, by oppression, And, me, hast thou forgotten, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹⁸ Their drinking–bout, having passed,––they became, unchaste, they loved wildly, a contempt, became her great men.

¹² For I know how numerous are your transgressions, and how surpassing your sins,––ye adversaries of the righteous! ye acceptors of a bribe! Even the needy in the gate, have they turned away!

³ Of wickedness with both hands to make sure, the ruler, doth make demand––and the judge––for a recompense,––and, as for the great man, he, is putting into words the desire of his soul, So have they woven the net!

²¹ nevertheless, if, for a day or for two days, he continue, he shall not be avenged, for, his silver, he is.

²¹ And, a sojourner, shalt thou not tread down, neither shalt thou drive him away,––for, sojourners, ye became in the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ Therefore shall ye love the sojourner,––for, sojourners, became ye, in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant, that is poor and needy,––of thy brethren or of thy sojourners that are in thy land, within thy gates; ¹⁵ for his day, shalt thou give his hire, neither shall the sun, go in upon it, for, poor, he is, and, unto it, is he lifting up his soul,––lest he cry out against thee, unto Yahweh, and it be, in thee, a sin. ¹⁶ Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor shall, sons, be put to death for fathers,––every man, for his own sin, shall he put to death. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the sojourner [or] the fatherless,––neither shalt thou take in pledge the garment of a widow; ¹⁸ so shalt thou remember that, a servant, becamest thou in Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God, redeemed thee, from thence,––therefore, am I commanding thee to do this thing.

⁶ The widow and sojourner, they will slay, And, the fatherless, murder.

⁷ Father and mother, have they despised in thee, To the sojourner, have they dealt with oppression, in the midst of thee,––The fatherless and the widow, have they maltreated in thee:

³³ Was it not binding, upon thee also, to have mercy upon thy fellow–servant, as, I also, on thee, had mercy?

¹⁷ Whence he was obliged, in every way, unto the brethren, to be made like, that he might become a merciful and faithful high–priest, in the things pertaining unto God,––for the making of propitiation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For, in that, he, suffered when tested, he is able, unto them who are being tested, to give succour.

³ Six years, shalt thou sow thy field, and, six years, shalt thou prune thy vineyard,––and gather the increase thereof; ⁴ but, in the seventh year––a sabbath of sacred rest, shall there be unto the land, a sabbath unto Yahweh: thy field, shalt thou not sow, and, thy vineyard, shalt thou not prune;

² Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them:––When ye enter into the land which, I, am giving you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Yahweh. ³ Six years, shalt thou sow thy field, and, six years, shalt thou prune thy vineyard,––and gather the increase thereof; ⁴ but, in the seventh year––a sabbath of sacred rest, shall there be unto the land, a sabbath unto Yahweh: thy field, shalt thou not sow, and, thy vineyard, shalt thou not prune; ⁵ that which groweth of itself of thy harvest, shalt thou not reap; and, the grapes of thine unpruned vines, shalt thou not cut off: a year of sacred rest, shall there be to the land. ⁶ So shall the sabbath of the land be unto you for food: unto thee, and unto thy servant and unto thy handmaid,––and unto thy hireling, and unto thy settlers that are sojourning with thee; ⁷ and unto thy tame–beasts, and unto the wild–beasts that are in thy land, shall belong all the increase thereof, for food.

¹¹ A jubilee, shall that fiftieth year be unto you,––ye shall not sow, neither shall ye reap the self–grown corn thereof, nor cut off the grapes of the unpruned vines thereof. ¹² For, a jubilee, it is, holy, shall it be unto you,––out of the field, shall ye eat her increase.

²⁰ And, since ye may say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? Lo! we are not to sow, neither are we to gather our increase!

²² and ye shall sow, the eighth year, and eat of old store,––until the ninth year, until the coming in of the increase thereof, shall ye eat old store.

³⁴ Then, shall the land be paid her sabbaths, All the days she lieth desolate, While, ye, are in the land of your foes,––Then, shall the land keep sabbath, And pay off her sabbaths: ³⁵ All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath,––the which she kept not as your sabbaths, while ye dwelt thereupon.

⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to hallow it: ⁹ Six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; ¹⁰ but, the seventh day, is a sabbath, unto Yahweh thy God,––thou shalt do no work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, [nor] thy servant, nor thy handmaid, nor thy beast, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates. ¹¹ For, in six days, did Yahweh make the heavens and the earth, [and] the sea––and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day,––for this cause, Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

¹⁵ Six days, shall work be done, but, on the seventh day, is a holy sabbath–keeping of rest, unto Yahweh,––whosoever doeth work on the sabbath day, shall be, surely put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore shall the sons of Israel keep the sabbath,––by making it a Day of Rest to your generations, as an age–abiding covenant:

²¹ Six days, shalt thou labour, but, on the seventh day, shalt thou rest,––in plowing time and in harvest, shalt thou rest.

³ Ye shall not kindle a fire, in any of your dwellings,––on the sabbath day.

¹³ six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; ¹⁴ but, the seventh day, is a sabbath unto Yahweh thy God,––thou shalt do no work––thou, nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy servant nor thy handmaid, nor thine ox nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates, that, thy servant and thy handmaid, may rest, as well as thou. ¹⁵ So shalt thou remember that, a servant, wast thou, in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God brought thee forth from thence, with a firm hand, and with a stretched–out arm,––for this cause, hath Yahweh thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day:

³ Wherefore have we Fasted and thou hast not seen? Humbled our soul, and thou wouldst take no note? Lo! in the day of your fast, ye take pleasure, But all your toilers, ye drive on!

¹⁴ But the synagogue–ruler, answering, being greatly displeased that, on the Sabbath, Jesus had healed, began saying unto the multitude––Six days, there are, in which men ought to get their work done; On them, therefore, come and be healed, and, not on the day of rest.

³⁸ and Nebo and Baal–meon––their names being changed, and Sibmah,––and they gave names to the cities which they built.

⁹ Only take thou heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, so that thou forget not the things which thine own eyes have seen, and so that they go not out of thy heart, all the days of thy life,––but thou shalt make them known unto thy sons, and unto thy sons’ sons:––

¹⁵ Ye must take diligent heed, therefore, unto your own souls,––for ye saw no manner of form, on the day Yahweh spake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire;

³ And ye must tear down their altars, And break in pieces their pillars, And, their sacred stems, must ye consume with fire, And, the carved images of their gods, must ye fell to the ground,––And destroy their name out of that place.

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

⁷ so as not to go in among these nations, these which remain with you,––and, with the name of their gods, shall ye neither make memorial nor put on oath, and neither serve them,––nor bow down to them.

¹¹ Take diligent heed, therefore, unto your souls,––to love Yahweh your God.

⁷ So will I establish his kingdom, unto times age–abiding,––if he be strong, to do my commandments and my regulations, as at this day. ⁸ Now, therefore, in the eyes of all Israel––the convocation of Yahweh, and in the ears of our God, Observe and seek all the commandments of Yahweh your God,––to the end that ye may possess the good land,––and suffer your sons after you to inherit it, unto times age–abiding. ⁹ Thou, therefore, Solomon my son, Know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing soul, for, all hearts, doth Yahweh search, and, every devised purpose, doth he understand,––If thou seek him, He will be found of thee, but, if thou forsake him, He will cast thee off for ever.

⁴ They multiply their idols––another, have they purchased! I will not pour out their drink–offerings of blood, nor will I take up their names on my lips.

¹ [To the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Melody of David.]
I said, [to myself,] I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue,––I will put on my mouth a muzzle, So long as the lawless is before me.

¹¹ Thus, shall ye say unto them, The gods that made not the heavens, And the earth, Shall perish out of the earth, And from under these heavens!

¹⁷ So will I take away the names of the Baals, out of her mouth,––and they shall not be called to mind any more, by their name.

² And it shall come to pass, in that day, declareth Yahweh of hosts, That I will cut off the names of idols out of the land, and they shall not be remembered any more,––Moreover also, even the prophets and the spirit of impurity, will I cause to pass away out of the land.

¹² For, of the secret things which are brought to pass by them, it is, shameful, even to speak!

¹⁵ Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking,––not as unwise, but as wise,––

¹⁶ Be giving heed to thyself, and to thy teaching,––abide still in them; for, this doing, both, thyself, shalt thou save, and them that hearken to thee.

¹⁵ Using oversight––lest any one be falling behind from the favour of God,––lest any root of bitterness, springing up above, be causing trouble, and, through it, the many, be defiled:

¹⁷ Three times in the year, shall all thy males see the face of the Lord Yahweh.

²² And, the festival of weeks, shalt thou make to thee, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest,––and the festival of ingathering, at the closing in of the year: ²³ three times in the year, shall every one of thy males see the face of the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel. ²⁴ For I will root out nations from before thee, and will enlarge thy borders,––and no man shall covet thy land, when thou goes up to see the face of Yahweh thy God, three times in the year.

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is a Passover unto Yahweh;

¹⁶ until, on the morrow of the seventh sabbath, ye count fifty days,––then shall ye bring near a new meal–offering unto Yahweh.

³⁴ Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying:––On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the festival of booths, for seven days, unto Yahweh.

¹⁶ Three times in the year, shall each one of thy males see the face of Yahweh thy God, in the place which he shall choose, at the festival of unleavened cakes, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths,––and none shall see the face of Yahweh empty–handed:

¹⁴ So shall this day serve you for a memorial, and ye shall celebrate it, as a festival to Yahweh,––to your generations––as an age–abiding statute, shall ye celebrate it. ¹⁵ Seven days, unleavened cakes, shall ye eat, surely, on the first day, shall ye put away leaven, out of your houses,––for, whosoever eateth what is leavened, then shall that soul be cut off out of Israel, from the first day, unto the seventh day. ¹⁶ Both, on the first day, a holy convocation, and, on the seventh day––a holy convocation, shall there be to you,––no work, shall be done therein, save only what must be eaten by every soul, that alone, shall be done by you. ¹⁷ So then ye shall observe the unleavened cakes, because, on this self–same day, brought I forth your hosts out of the land of Egypt,––so then ye shall observe this day to your generations, as a statute age–abiding. ¹⁸ In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, shall ye eat unleavened cakes,––until the one–and–twentieth [day] of the month, in the evening. ¹⁹ For seven days, leaven, shall not be found in your houses,––for, whosoever eateth what is leavened, then shall that soul be cut off out of the assembly of Israel, whether sojourner, or native of the land. ²⁰ Nothing leavened, shall ye eat,––in all your dwellings, shall ye eat unleavened cakes.
²¹ So then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them,––Proceed and take for yourselves one of the flock, according to your families, and slay the passover. ²² Then shall ye take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and strike the upper beam, and the two door–posts, with the blood which is in the basin,––and, ye, shall not go forth, any man out of the entrance of his house, until morning. ²³ And Yahweh will pass along to plague the Egyptians, and, when he beholdeth the blood upon the upper beam, and upon the two door–posts, then will Yahweh pass over the entrance, and not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses, to inflict on you the plague. ²⁴ And ye shall observe this thing,––for a statute to thee and to thy sons, unto times age–abiding. ²⁵ And so it shall come to pass, when ye shall enter into the land which Yahweh will give you, as he hath spoken,––and ye shall observe this service; ²⁶ and it shall come to pass, that your sons shall say unto you,––What is this your service? ²⁷ Then shall ye say––A passover sacrifice, it is to Yahweh, who passed–over the houses of the sons of Israel, in Egypt, when he plagued the Egyptians, but, our houses, he delivered. Then did the people bend their heads and bow themselves down. ²⁸ And the sons of Israel went their way and did,––as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so, did they.

⁴³ And Yahweh said unto Moses and Aaron: This, is the statute of the passover,––No stranger, shall eat thereof; ⁴⁴ but, every man’s servant bought with silver,––when thou hast circumcised him, then, shall he eat thereof: ⁴⁵ An alien or a hireling, shall not eat thereof. ⁴⁶ In one house, shall it be eaten, thou shalt not take forth, out of the house, any of the flesh, outside; and a, bone thereof, shalt thou not break. ⁴⁷ All the assembly of Israel, shall keep it. ⁴⁸ And, when there may sojourn with thee a sojourner who may wish to keep a passover to Yahweh, there must be circumcised to him every male, and, then, may he draw near to keep it, so shall he be as a native of the land,––but, no uncircumcised male, shall eat thereof. ⁴⁹ One law, shall there be for the native,––and for the sojourner that sojourneth in your midst.

⁴ Today, are, ye, coming forth,––in the month Abib.

⁶ Seven days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes,––and, on the seventh day, [shall be] a festival to Yahweh. ⁷ Unleavened cakes, shall be eaten for the seven days,––neither shall there be seen with thee anything leavened, nor shall there be seen with thee leaven, within any of thy bounds.

¹⁸ The festival of unleavened cakes, shalt thou keep, seven days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes, which I commanded thee, at the set time, in the month Abib,––for, in the month Abib, camest thou forth out of Egypt.

²⁰ But, the firstling of an ass, thou mayst redeem with a lamb, and, if thou wilt not redeem it, then shalt thou break its neck. Every firstborn of thy sons, shalt thou redeem, and he must not see my face, with empty hand.

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, is a Passover unto Yahweh; ⁶ and, on the fifteenth day of this month, is the festival of unleavened cakes unto Yahweh,––seven days––unleavened cakes, shall ye eat. ⁷ On the first day––a holy convocation, shall there be to you: no laborious work, shall ye do. ⁸ So then ye shall bring near an altar–flame unto Yahweh, seven days,––on the seventh day, [shall there be] a holy convocation, no laborious work, shall ye do.

¹⁰ Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them:––When ye enter into the land which, I, am giving you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then shall ye bring in a sheaf of the first–ripe corn of your harvest, unto the priest;

² Let the sons of Israel, therefore, keep the passover, in its appointed season: ³ on the fourteenth day of this month, between the two evenings, shall ye keep it, in its appointed season,––according to all the statutes thereof, and according to all the regulations thereof, shall ye keep it. ⁴ Then spake Moses unto the sons of Israel, that they should keep the passover. ⁵ So they kept the passover, in the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, in the desert of Sinai,––according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did the sons of Israel. ⁶ But so it was, that there were certain men who had become unclean, by a dead person, and could not keep the passover on that day,––therefore came they near, before Moses and before Aaron, on that day. ⁷ Then said those men unto him, We, are unclean by a dead person,––wherefore should we become of less esteem, for want of offering the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season, in the midst of the sons of Israel? ⁸ And Moses said unto them,––Stay, and let me hear, what Yahweh shall command concerning you! ⁹ Then spake Yahweh unto Moses, saying: ¹⁰ Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying,––Though, any man, be unclean by a dead person, or be on a journey afar off, whether in the case of yourselves, or of your generations, yet shall he keep a passover unto Yahweh. ¹¹ In the second month, on the fourteenth day between the two evenings, shall they keep it,––with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs, shall they eat it. ¹² They shall not leave thereof until morning, and, no bone, shall they break therein––according to all the statutes of the passover, shall they keep it. ¹³ But, as for the man who, is, clean, and, no a journey, doth not chance to be, and yet faileth to keep the passover, that person shall he cut off from among his kinsfolk,––for, the oblation of Yahweh, hath he not offered in its appointed season, his own sin, shall, that man, bear. ¹⁴ When, moreover, there may sojourn with you a sojourner, who would keep a passover unto Yahweh, according to the statute of the passover, and according to the regulation thereof, so, must he keep [it], ––one statute, shall there be for you, both for the sojourner, and for the native of the land.

¹⁶ And, on the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be a passover unto Yahweh; ¹⁷ and, on the fifteenth day of this month, a festival,––seven days, unleavened cakes, shall be eaten. ¹⁸ On the first day, a holy convocation,––no laborious work, shall ye do; ¹⁹ but ye shall bring near––as an altar–flame––an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh,––two choice bullocks, and one ram,––and seven he–lambs a year old, without defect, must they be for you; ²⁰ and, for their meal–offering, fine meal, overflowed with oil,––three–tenths for a bullock, and two–tenths for a ram, shall ye offer; ²¹ a tenth, severally, shalt thou offer, for each lamb,––for the seven lambs; ²² also one he–goat for bearing sin, to put a propitiatory–covering over you: ²³ in addition to, the ascending–sacrifice of the morning, which is for the continual ascending–sacrifice, shall ye offer these. ²⁴ Like these, shall ye offer, daily, for seven days, as the food of the altar–flame of a satisfying odour, unto Yahweh,––besides the continual ascending–sacrifice, shall it be offered, with the drink–offering thereof. ²⁵ And, on the seventh day, shall ye have, a holy convocation,––no laborious work, shall ye do.

¹ Observe the month of Abib, when thou shalt keep a passover unto Yahweh thy God,––for, in the month of Abib, did Yahweh thy God bring thee forth out of Egypt, by night: ² therefore shalt thou sacrifice a passover unto Yahweh thy God, of flock or herd,––in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there. ³ Thou shalt not eat therewith, any thing leavened, seven days, shalt thou eat therewith unleavened cakes, the bread of humiliation,––for, in haste, camest thou forth out of the land of Egypt, that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt, all the days of thy life. ⁴ And there shall not be seen with thee leaven, in any of thy bounds, seven days,––neither shall there remain all night of the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, on the first day, unto the morning. ⁵ Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover,––within any of thine own gates, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee; ⁶ but, in the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose to make a habitation for his name, there, shalt thou sacrifice the passover, in the evening,––at the going in of the sun, at the very time thou camest forth out of Egypt. ⁷ Therefore shalt thou cook and eat it in the place which Yahweh thy God, shall choose,––and shalt turn away in the morning, and go thy way unto thy tents. ⁸ Six days, shalt thou eat unleavened cakes,––and, on the seventh day, shall be a closing feast, unto Yahweh thy God, thou shalt do no work.

¹⁰ Thus then the sons of Israel encamped in Gilgal,––and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the waste plains of Jericho. ¹¹ And they did eat of the corn of the land, on the morrow of the passover, unleavened cakes and parched ears of corn,––on this selfsame day.

²¹ Then did the king command all the people, saying, Keep ye a passover unto Yahweh, your God,––such as is written in this book of the covenant. ²² Surely there had not been held such a passover as this, from the days of the Judges who judged Israel,––nor all the days of the kings of Israel, and the kings of Judah; ²³ save only, in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, when this passover was held unto Yahweh, in Jerusalem.

⁹ Honour thou Yahweh, with thy substance, and with the firstfruit of all thine increase; ¹⁰ So shall thy storehouses be filled with plenty, and, with new wine, shall thy vats overflow.

¹² And, on the first day of the unleavened cakes, when, the passover, they were slaying, his disciples say unto him––Where wilt thou, we depart and make ready, that thou mayest eat the passover?

⁷ Now the day of the unleavened bread a came,––on which it was needful to be sacrificing the passover.

⁷ Purge ye out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,––even as ye are unleavened; for, our passover, hath even been sacrificed––Christ: ⁸ So then, let us be keeping the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of baseness and wickedness,––but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

²⁹ Thy fulness and thine outflow, shalt thou not delay,––the firstborn of thy sons, shalt thou give to me.

²² And, the festival of weeks, shalt thou make to thee, the firstfruits of the wheat harvest,––and the festival of ingathering, at the closing in of the year:

⁹ And Yahweh spake unto Moses, saying: ¹⁰ Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them:––When ye enter into the land which, I, am giving you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then shall ye bring in a sheaf of the first–ripe corn of your harvest, unto the priest; ¹¹ and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, that ye may be accepted,––on the morrow of the sabbath, shall the priest wave it. ¹² And ye shall offer, on the day when ye wave the sheaf, a he–lamb without defect, the finest of its year, for an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh; ¹³ and the, meal–offering thereof, shall be two–tenth parts of fine meal, overflowed with oil, as an altar–flame unto Yahweh, a satisfying odour,––and, the drink–offering thereof, [shall be] mine, the fourth of a hin. ¹⁴ And, neither bread, nor roasted corn, nor garden–land grain, shall ye eat, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought in the oblation of your God,––an age–abiding statute unto your generations, in all your dwellings.
¹⁵ Then shall ye keep count to yourselves, from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day ye brought in the wave sheaf,––seven sabbaths complete, shall there be: ¹⁶ until, on the morrow of the seventh sabbath, ye count fifty days,––then shall ye bring near a new meal–offering unto Yahweh. ¹⁷ Out of your dwellings, shall ye bring in two wave loaves of two–tenths of an ephah, of fine meal, shall they be, with leaven, shall they be baked,––firstfruits unto Yahweh. ¹⁸ Then shall ye bring near, with the bread, seven he–lambs without defect, of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams,––they shall be an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh, with their meal–offering, and their drink–offerings, an altar–flame of satisfying odour unto Yahweh. ¹⁹ Then shall ye offer one he–goat, as a sin–bearer,––and two he–lambs, of the first year, as a peace–offering. ²⁰ And the priest shall wave them, with the firstfruits’ bread, as a wave–offering before Yahweh, with the two he–lambs,––holy, shall they be unto Yahweh, for the priest. ²¹ And ye shall make proclamation on this self–same day––a holy convocation, shall it be unto you; no laborious work, shall ye do,––an age–abiding statute, in all your dwellings, unto your generations.

³⁴ Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying:––On the fifteenth day of this seventh month, shall be the festival of booths, for seven days, unto Yahweh. ³⁵ On the first day, [shall be] a holy convocation,––no laborious work, shall ye do. ³⁶ Seven days, shall ye bring near an altar–flame unto Yahweh: on the eighth day––a holy convocation, shall there be unto you, so shall ye bring near an altar–flame unto Yahweh––the closing of the feast, it is, no laborious work, shall ye do. ³⁷ These, are the appointed seasons of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim, as holy convocations,––for bringing near, as an altar–flame unto Yahweh, an ascending–sacrifice, and a meal–offering, a sacrifice and a drink–offering, each day’s appointment on its own day:–– ³⁸ besides the sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your presents, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which ye shall give unto Yahweh. ³⁹ Surely, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the yield of the land, shall ye celebrate the festival of Yahweh, seven days,––on the first day, a sacred rest, and, on the eighth day, a sacred rest. ⁴⁰ So then ye shall take you, on the first day, boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm–trees, and boughs of thick trees, and poplars of the ravine,––and shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, seven days. ⁴¹ So shall ye celebrate it as a festival unto Yahweh, seven days in the year,––a statute age–abiding, to your generations. In the seventh month, shall ye celebrate it; ⁴² In booths, shall ye dwell seven days; ––All the home–born in Israel, shall dwell in booths: ⁴³ To the end that your generations may know, that, in booths, made I the sons of Israel to dwell, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt,––I––Yahweh, am your God. ⁴⁴ So then Moses declared, the appointed seasons of Yahweh, unto the sons of Israel.

²⁶ And, on the day of firstfruits, when ye bring near a new meal–offering unto Yahweh, in your weeks, a holy convocation, shall there be unto you, no laborious work, shall ye do; ²⁷ but ye shall bring near as an ascending–sacrifice, for a satisfying odour unto Yahweh, two choice bullocks, one ram,––seven he–lambs a year old; ²⁸ also their meal–offering, fine meal, overflowed with oil,––three–tenths for each bullock, two–tenths for the one ram; ²⁹ a tenth, severally, for each lamb,––of the seven lambs; ³⁰ one young he–goat,––for putting a propitiatory–covering over you: ³¹ in addition to, the continual ascending–sacrifice, with the meal–offering thereof, shall ye offer them,––without defect, shall they be for you, with their drink–offerings.

¹² And, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a holy convocation, shall there be unto you, no laborious work, shall ye do,––but ye shall celebrate a festival unto Yahweh, seven days. ¹³ Then shall ye bring near as an ascending–sacrifice––an altar–flame of a satisfying odour unto Yahweh,––thirteen choice bullocks, two rams,––fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect, shall they be; ¹⁴ and, as their meal–offering, fine–meal over–flowed with oil, three–tenths to each bullock, of the thirteen bullocks, two–tenths to each ram, of the two rams; ¹⁵ and a tenth severally, to each lamb,––of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶ also one young he–goat, as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof. ¹⁷ And, on the second day, twelve choice bullocks, two rams,––fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ¹⁸ with their meal–offerings and their drink–offerings––to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs, by their number, according to the regulation; ¹⁹ also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, with its meal–offering, and their drink–offerings. ²⁰ And, on the third day, eleven bullocks, two rams,––and fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ²¹ with their meal–offering and their drink–offerings, to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs, by their number, according to the regulation; ²² also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer, in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, with the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof. ²³ And, on the fourth day, ten bullocks, two rams,––fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ²⁴ their meal–offering, and their drink–offerings, to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs, by their number, according to the regulation; ²⁵ also one he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof. ²⁶ And, on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams,––fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ²⁷ with their meal–offering and their drink–offerings,––to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs, by their number, according to the regulation; ²⁸ also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, with the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof. ²⁹ And, on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams,––fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ³⁰ with their meal–offering and their drink–offerings––to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs, by their number, according to the regulation; ³¹ also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offerings thereof. ³² And, on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he–lambs a year old, without defect; ³³ with their meal–offering and their drink–offering, to the bullocks, to the rams, and to the lambs––by their number, according to their regulation; ³⁴ also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof ³⁵ [And], on the eighth day, a closing feast, shall there be unto you,––no laborious work, shall ye do; ³⁶ but ye shall bring near––as an ascending–sacrifice, an altar–flame of a satisfying odour, unto Yahweh––one bullock, one ram,––seven he–lambs a year old, without defect: ³⁷ [with] their meal–offering and their drink–offerings––to the bullock to the ram, and to the lambs––by their number, according to the regulation; ³⁸ also one young he–goat as a sin–bearer,––in addition to the continual ascending–sacrifice, with the meal–offering thereof, and the drink–offering thereof. ³⁹ These, shall ye offer unto Yahweh, in your appointed seasons,––besides your vow–offerings and your freewill offerings––as your ascending–sacrifices, and as your meal–offerings, and as your drink–offerings, and as your peace–offerings.

⁹ Seven weeks, shalt thou count unto thee,––from the beginning of thrusting in the sickle into the standing corn, shalt thou begin to count, seven weeks. ¹⁰ So shalt thou keep the festival of weeks unto Yahweh thy God, in the measure of the freewill offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give,––as Yahweh thy God, shall bless thee. ¹¹ So shalt thou rejoice before Yahweh thy God––thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant and thy handmaid, and the Levite who is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow, who are in thy midst,––in the place which Yahweh thy God shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there. ¹² So shalt thou remember that, a servant, thou wast, in Egypt,––and shalt observe and do these statutes. ¹³ The festival of booths, shalt thou keep for thyself, seven days,––when thou hast gathered in out of thy threshing–floor, and out of thy wine–vat. ¹⁴ And thou shalt rejoice, in thy festival,––thou, and thy son and thy daughter, and thy servant and thy handmaid, and the Levite and the sojourner, and the fatherless and the widow, who are within thy gates. ¹⁵ Seven days, shalt thou keep festival unto Yahweh thy God, in the place which Yahweh shall choose,––for Yahweh thy God, will bless thee, in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands,––therefore shalt thou do nothing but rejoice.

¹⁴ And they found written in the law,––that Yahweh gave command through Moses, that the sons of Israel should dwell in booths, during the festival of the seventh month; ¹⁵ and that they should publish and send along a proclamation throughout all their cities and throughout Jerusalem, saying, Forth to the mountain, and bring in branches of olive, and branches of oleaster, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palms, and branches of thick trees,––to make booths, as it is written. ¹⁶ So the people went forth, and brought in, and made themselves booths, every one upon his roof, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water–gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And all the convocation of them who had returned out of the captivity made booths, and dwelt in booths, for, since the days of Jeshua son of Nun, had not the sons of Israel done so, unto that day,––and there was very great rejoicing. ¹⁸ So he read in the book of the law of God, day by day, from the first day unto the last day, and they kept the festival seven days, and, on the eighth day, a closing feast, according to the regulation.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass, that, as for every one that is left out of all the nations that came against Jerusalem, that they shall come up, from year to year, to bow down to the king, Yahweh of hosts, and to celebrate the festival of booths. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass that––whoso shall not come up out of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem, to bow down to the king, Yahweh of hosts,––there shall not, on them, be any rain. ¹⁸ And, if the family of Egypt shall not come up, and shall not enter in, upon whom there falleth none, then shall smite them the plague wherewith Yahweh, did plague, the nations, because they came not up to celebrate the festival of booths. ¹⁹ This, shall be the punishment of Egypt,––and the punishment of all the nations, when they come not up to celebrate the festival of booths.

² But the feast of the Jews was near, that of the pitching of tents.

³⁷ Now, on the last––the great––day of the feast, Jesus was standing, and he cried aloud, saying––If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink:

¹ And, when the day of pentecost was filling up [the number of days] they were all together with one intent; ––

¹⁴ Three times, shalt thou keep festival to me, in the year.

²³ three times in the year, shall every one of thy males see the face of the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel.

⁵ but, unto the place, which Yahweh your God shall choose, out of all your tribes, to put his name there,––as his habitation, shall ye ask your way, and come in thither;

¹¹ when all Israel cometh in to see the face of Yahweh thy God, in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel, in their hearing.

⁷ They go from strength to strength, Each one appeareth before God in Zion.

⁴² And, when he became twelve years, and they went up, according to the custom of the feast,

⁸ Then shall they eat the flesh, in the same night,––roast with fire, and with unleavened cakes, with bitter herbs, shall they eat it.

¹⁰ And ye shall let nothing thereof remain until morning,––but, that which is left remaining until morning, in the fire, shall ye consume.

¹⁵ Seven days, unleavened cakes, shall ye eat, surely, on the first day, shall ye put away leaven, out of your houses,––for, whosoever eateth what is leavened, then shall that soul be cut off out of Israel, from the first day, unto the seventh day.

²⁵ Thou shalt not slay, along with anything leavened, the blood of my sacrifice,––neither shall remain to the morning, the sacrifice of the festival of the passover.

¹¹ None of the meal–offerings which ye bring near unto Yahweh, shall be made into anything leavened,––for, of no leaven and of no syrup, may ye make a perfume, as an altar–flame unto Yahweh.

¹² If, for thanksgiving, he bring it near, then shall he bring near, with the thanksgiving sacrifice, perforated cakes, unleavened, overflowed with oil, and wafers, unleavened, anointed with oil,––and of fine flour moistened, perforated cakes overflowed with oil.

¹⁵ But, as for the flesh of his peace–offering of thanksgiving, on the day of bringing it near, shall it be eaten,––he shall not leave thereof, until morning.

⁴ And there shall not be seen with thee leaven, in any of thy bounds, seven days,––neither shall there remain all night of the flesh which thou shalt sacrifice in the evening, on the first day, unto the morning.

²⁶ The beginning of the firstfruits of thy ground, shalt thou bring into the house of Yahweh, thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

¹⁰ Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them:––When ye enter into the land which, I, am giving you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then shall ye bring in a sheaf of the first–ripe corn of your harvest, unto the priest; ¹¹ and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, that ye may be accepted,––on the morrow of the sabbath, shall the priest wave it. ¹² And ye shall offer, on the day when ye wave the sheaf, a he–lamb without defect, the finest of its year, for an ascending–sacrifice unto Yahweh; ¹³ and the, meal–offering thereof, shall be two–tenth parts of fine meal, overflowed with oil, as an altar–flame unto Yahweh, a satisfying odour,––and, the drink–offering thereof, [shall be] mine, the fourth of a hin. ¹⁴ And, neither bread, nor roasted corn, nor garden–land grain, shall ye eat, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought in the oblation of your God,––an age–abiding statute unto your generations, in all your dwellings.
¹⁵ Then shall ye keep count to yourselves, from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day ye brought in the wave sheaf,––seven sabbaths complete, shall there be: ¹⁶ until, on the morrow of the seventh sabbath, ye count fifty days,––then shall ye bring near a new meal–offering unto Yahweh. ¹⁷ Out of your dwellings, shall ye bring in two wave loaves of two–tenths of an ephah, of fine meal, shall they be, with leaven, shall they be baked,––firstfruits unto Yahweh.

¹² All the best of oil, and all the best of new–wine and corn,––the firstfruits thereof, which they shall give unto Yahweh, unto thee, have I given them. ¹³ The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they shall bring in unto Yahweh, thine, shall it be,––every one that is clean in thy house, shall eat it:

⁵ but, unto the place, which Yahweh your God shall choose, out of all your tribes, to put his name there,––as his habitation, shall ye ask your way, and come in thither; ⁶ and bring in thither your ascending–offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the heave–offering of your hand,––and your vow–offerings, and your freewill–offerings, and the firstlings of your herd, and of your flock; ⁷ and shall eat there, before Yahweh your God, and rejoice in all whereunto ye are putting your hand, ye, and your households,––wherewith Yahweh thy God hath blessed thee.

²¹ Ye shall not eat any thing that dieth of itself; to the sojourner who is within thy gates, mayest thou give it and he may eat it, or thou mayest sell it to a foreigner, for, a holy people, art thou, unto Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid, in the milk of its dam.

² then shalt thou take––of the first of all the fruit of the soil which thou shalt bring in from thy land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee and shalt put it in a basket,––and go thy way unto the place which Yahweh thy God, shall choose, to make a habitation for his name there.

¹⁰ Now, therefore lo! I have brought in the first of the fruit of the soil which thou hast given unto me, O Yahweh. Thus shalt thou set it down before Yahweh thy God, and shall bow thyself down before Yahweh thy God;

³⁵ And that we would bring in the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruit of all fruit of all trees, year by year,––unto the house of Yahweh;

¹⁰ A righteous man, regardeth the desire of his beast, but, the compassions of the lawless, are cruel.

³ For, as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are,––For, a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman, with the axe:

²⁰ But, now, hath Christ been raised from among the dead,––a firstfruit of them who have fallen asleep;

⁴ These, are they, who with women, were not defiled, for they are, virgin. These, are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he is going. These, were redeemed from mankind, as a firstfruit unto God and the Lamb;

¹⁸ In that day, did Yahweh solemnise with Abram a covenant, saying,––To thy seed, have I given this land, from the river of Egypt, as far as the great river––the river Euphrates:

¹⁶ The Messenger––who hath been my redeemer from all evil––bless the lads! And may there be called upon them, my name, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac; And may they swarm into a multitude in the midst of the earth!

² Then appeared the messenger of Yahweh unto him, in a flame of fire, from the midst of the thorn–bush,––so he looked, and lo! the thorn–bush, burning with fire, and yet, the thorn–bush, was not consumed. ³ And Moses said, Let me turn aside, pray, and see this great sight,––why the thorn–bush, doth not burn up. ⁴ And Yahweh saw, that he turned aside to see,––so God called unto him, out of the midst of the thorn–bush, and said––Moses! Moses! And he said––Behold me! ⁵ And he said––Do not draw nigh hither,––put off thy sandals from thy feet, for, the place whereon thou art standing, is, holy ground. ⁶ And he said––I, am the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

¹⁹ And the messenger of God who was going on before the camp of Israel, removed, and came on behind them,––and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them;

¹⁷ Thou bringest them in and plantest them, In the mountain of thine inheritance, Thy dwelling–place to abide in, which thou hast made, O Yahweh,––A hallowed place, O My Lord, which thy hands have established.

³⁴ Now, therefore, go lead the people to the place of which I spake to thee, lo! my messenger, shall go before thee,––But, in the day when I do visit, then will I visit upon them, their sin.

² And I will send before thee a messenger,––and will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;

¹⁴ So then he said,––Mine own presence, shall go on, thus will I give thee rest.

¹⁶ and we made outcry unto Yahweh, and he heard our voice, and sent a messenger, and brought us forth out of Egypt,––lo! then, we, are in Kadesh, a city at the extremity of thy boundary,

¹³ And it came to pass, while Joshua was at Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and lo! a man standing over against him, with his sword drawn, in his hand,––so Joshua went unto him, and said to him, For us, art thou, or for our adversaries?

² Then said Yahweh unto Joshua, See, I have delivered, into thy hand, Jericho and her king,––the mighty men of valour.

¹¹ For, his messengers, will he charge concerning thee, To keep thee, in all thy ways;

⁹ In all their affliction, he, was afflicted, And, the messenger of his presence, saved them, In his love and in his pity, he, redeemed them,––And then lifted them up and carried them, all the days of the age–past time.

¹ Behold me! sending my messenger, who will prepare a way before me,–– and, suddenly, shall come to his temple The Lord whom ye are seeking, even the messenger of the covenant in whom ye are delighting, Lo! he cometh! saith Yahweh of hosts.

³⁴ Then, will the king say to those on his right hand: Come ye, the blessed of my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

³ And, if I go, and prepare a place for you, again, am I coming, and will take you home unto––myself, that, where, I, am, ye also, may be.

⁹ Neither let us be putting the Lord to the test, as, some of them, put him to the test, and, by the serpents, were perishing; ¹⁰ Neither be ye murmuring, even, as some of them, murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

¹⁴ And God said unto Moses, I Will Become whatsoever I please. And he said––Thus, shalt thou say to the sons of Israel, I Will Become hath sent me unto you.

³ I appeared, therefore, unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as GOD Almighty,––although, by my name Yahweh, was I not made known to them;

⁵ And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and took his station with him, there,––and proclaimed himself by the name Yahweh. ⁶ So Yahweh passed before him, and proclaimed,––Yahweh, Yahweh, A GOD of compassion, and favour,––Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and faithfulness: ⁷ Keeping lovingkindness to a thousand generations, Forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, Though he leave not, utterly unpunished, Visiting the iniquity of fathers Upon sons, And upon sons’ sons, Unto a third and unto a fourth generation.

¹¹ Then said Yahweh unto Moses, How long must this people, despise me? And, how long can they not believe in me, in view of all the signs which I have done in their midst?

³⁵ I––Yahweh, have spoken, Verily, this, will I do to all this evil assembly, who have conspired against me,––In this desert, shall they be consumed, And, there, shall they die.

¹⁹ And it shall come to pass, that, the man who will not hearken unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I, myself, will require it of him.

¹⁹ Then said Joshua unto the people––Ye cannot serve Yahweh, for, a holy God, he is, a jealous GOD, he is, he will not forgive your transgression, nor your sins.

¹² Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish by the way, for soon might be kindled his anger,––How happy are all who seek refuge in him!

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious Name, unto times ago–abiding,––And filled with his glory be all the earth, Amen and Amen!

⁴⁰ How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

⁵⁶ But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

¹⁸ That men may know that, thou, Whose Name alone is Yahweh, Art Most High over all the earth.

¹⁴ Wherefore, let My Lord Himself give, you a sign,––Lo! a Virgin, being with child and giving birth to a son, thou wilt call his name Immanuel.

⁶ For, A Child, hath been born to us, A Son, hath been given to us, And the dominion is upon his shoulder,––And his Name hath been called, Wonderful Counselor, Mighty GOD, Father of Futurity, Prince of Prosperity.

⁸ I, am Yahweh, that, is my Name,––And, my glory, to another, will I not give, Nor, my praise, to images.

⁶ That men may get to know, From the rising of the sun, And from the west, That there is none besides me,––I, am Yahweh, and there is none, else:

¹⁵ For, thus, saith he that is high, and lifted up––Inhabiting futurity, And, holy, is his name: A high and holy place, will I inhabit, Also with the crushed and lowly in spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, and, To revive the heart of them who are crushed; ––

⁷ How, for this, can I pardon thee? Thine own sons, have forsaken me, And have sworn by No–gods,––When I had fed them to the full, Then committed they adultery, And, the house of the unchaste woman, they used to throng:

⁶ In his days, Shall Judah, be saved, And, Israel, abide securely,––And, this, is his name whereby he shall be called, Yahweh, our Righteousness.

²³ Lo! a Virgin, shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son,––and they shall call his name Emmanuel; which is, being translated, God with us.

⁵ While yet he was speaking, lo! a brightly shining cloud, overshadowed them, and lo! a voice, out of the cloud, saying––This, is, my Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight,––Be hearkening to him.

²³ That, all, may honour the Son, just as they honour the Father: he that doth not honour the Son, doth not, in fact, honour the Father who sent him.

³⁰ I and the Father, are, one.

³⁸ But, if I am doing them, even though, in me, ye believe not, in the works, believe,––that ye may get to know and go on to know, that the Father is, in me, and, I, am, in the Father.

⁹ Jesus saith unto him––So long a time as this, have I been, with you,––and thou hast not come to know me, Philip? He that hath seen me, hath seen the Father. How art, thou, saying, Show us the Father? ¹⁰ Believest thou not, that, I, am in the Father, and, the Father, is, in me? The things which I am saying unto you, from myself, I speak not; but, the Father, within me abiding, doeth his works.

³⁰ And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;

⁹ Because, in him, dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead, bodily,

¹⁰ Wherefore I was sore vexed with this generation, and said, Always err they in their heart; ––howbeit, they, learned not my ways: ¹¹ So I sware in mine anger––they shall not enter into my rest!––

¹⁶ For, who, though they heard, caused embitterment? Nay, indeed! did not all who come forth out of Egypt through Moses?

²⁶ For, if, by choice, we be sinning, after the receiving of the full–knowledge of the truth, no longer, for sins, is there left over, a sacrifice, ²⁷ But some fearful reception of judgment and fiery jealousy, about to devour the opposers. ²⁸ Any one having set aside a law of Moses, apart from compassions, upon [the testimony of] two or three witnesses, dieth: ²⁹ Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be accounted worthy, who hath trampled underfoot the Son of God, and, the blood of the covenant, hath esteemed, a profane thing, by which he had been made holy, and, unto the Spirit of favour, hath offered wanton insult?

²⁵ Beware, lest ye excuse yourselves from him that speaketh; for, if, they escaped not, who excused themselves from him who on earth was warning, how much less, shall, we, who from him that warneth from the heavens, do turn ourselves away:

¹⁶ If one should see his brother committing a sin, not unto death, he shall ask, and He will grant unto him life,––for them who are sinning, not unto death. There, is, a sin, unto death: not concerning that, am I saying, that he should make request.

⁸ I, am, the A, and, the Z, saith the Lord,––the, God who Is, and who Was, and who is Coming, The Almighty.

⁸ And, unto the messenger of the assembly, in Smyrna, write:––These things, saith the first and the last, who became dead, and lived:

²³ and, her children, will I slay with death; ––and all the assemblies shall get to know, that, I, am he that searcheth reins and hearts, and will give unto you, each one, according to your works.

⁷ And, unto the messenger of the assembly, in Philadelphia, write:––These things, saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no one shall shut, and shutteth and no one openeth:

³ That I may bless them who bless thee, But, him who maketh light of thee, will I curse,––So shall be, blessed in thee, all the families of the ground.

⁹ He hath knelt––hath lain down, Like a strong lion, yea like a lioness, Who shall rouse him up? Such as bless thee, are each one blessed, But, such as curse thee, are each one cursed.

⁷ And Yahweh thy God will put all these oaths upon thine enemies and upon them who hated thee, who persecuted thee.

²⁰ And, his sons, shall come to be, as aforetime, And, his assembly, before me, shall continue,––And I will bring punishment on all his oppressors;

⁸ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, For his own honour, hath he sent me unto the nations that are spoiling you,––Surely, he that toucheth you, toucheth the pupil of mine eye.

⁴ And, falling unto the earth, he heard a voice saying unto him––Saul! Saul! why, me, art thou persecuting? ⁵ And he said––Who art thou, Lord? And, he, [said]––I, am Jesus, whom, thou, art persecuting!

¹⁹ the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite; ²⁰ and the Hittite and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim; ²¹ and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.

² And Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the land, saw her,––so he took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.

¹⁷ therefore do I say––I will bring you up out of the humiliation of Egypt, into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,––into a land flowing with milk and honey.

²⁰ Lo! I, am sending a messenger before thee, to guard thee in the way,––and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

² And Aaron said unto them, Break off the rings of gold, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters,––and bring them unto me.

⁸ then I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who were dwelling over the Jordan, and they fought with you,––then delivered I them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land, so I destroyed them from before you. ⁹ Then rose up Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, and made war with Israel,––and sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you; ¹⁰ but I was not willing to hearken unto Balaam,––so, he kept on blessing, you, and I rescued you out of his hand. ¹¹ Then passed ye over the Jordan, and came in unto Jericho, and, when they would have made war with you––even the lords of Jericho––the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, then delivered I them into your hand.

¹³ Therefore, are my people taken away captive, before they know it,––And, their honourable men, are famished with hunger, And, their multitude, do gape for thirst.

⁵ thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor be led to serve them––For, I, Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers, upon sons, unto three [generations] and unto four, of them that hate me;

²⁰ Then took he the calf which they had made, and burned it in the fire, and ground it till it became powder,––and strewed it on the face of the waters, and made the sons of Israel drink.

¹³ For, their altars, shall ye smash, And, their pillars, shall ye shiver,––And, their sacred–stems, shall ye fell. ¹⁴ For thou shalt not bow thyself down to another GOD,––For, as for Yahweh, Jealous, is his name, A jealous GOD, he is:

³ After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do,––And, after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither, I, am bringing you in, shall ye not do, And, in their statutes, shall ye not walk:

²⁶ Ye, therefore, shall observe my statutes and my regulations, and have nothing to do with any of these abominations,––whether the home–born, or the sojourner that sojourneth in your midst; ²⁷ For, all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land, hath become unclean: ²⁸ So shall the land not vomit you, through your making it unclean,––as it vomited the nation which was before you. ²⁹ For, whosoever shall have anything to do with any of these abominations, the persons who have, shall be cut off, out of the midst of their people. ³⁰ Therefore shall ye keep my charge, So that ye may have nothing to do with any of the abominable statutes with which they have had to do before you, So shall ye not make yourselves unclean thereby,––I––Yahweh, am your God.

⁵² then shall ye dispossess all the inhabitants of the land, from before you, and shall destroy all their figured stones,––all their molten images, also shall ye destroy, and, all their high places, shall ye lay waste.

⁵ Verily, thus, shall ye do unto them: Their altars, shall ye tear down, And, their pillars, shall ye break in pieces,––And, their sacred stems, shall ye hew down, And, their carved images, shall ye burn up in the fire.

²⁵ The carved images of their gods, shalt thou consume with fire,––thou shalt not covet the silver and gold upon them, to take unto thee, lest thou be ensnared thereby; for, the abomination of Yahweh thy God, it is; ²⁶ and thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and so become devoted to destruction, like it,––thou shalt, abhor, it, and thou shalt, loathe, it, because, a thing devoted to destruction, it is.

³⁰ take heed to thyself, lest thou be thrust after them, after they have been destroyed from before thee,––and lest thou enquire after their gods, saying––In what manner, did these nations serve their gods, that, I too, may do likewise? ³¹ Thou shalt not do likewise unto Yahweh thy God,––for, everything that is an abomination unto Yahweh, which he doth hate, have they done unto their gods, for, even their sons and their daughters, do they consume with fire unto their gods.

² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,–according to the abominable ways of the nations, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.

⁹ And so Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,––to commit wickedness beyond the nations which Yahweh had destroyed from before the sons of Israel.

³ And, in the eighth year of his reign, he, being yet a boy, he began to seek unto the God of David his father,–and, in the twelfth year, he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem, from the high places and the Sacred Stems, and the carved images and the molten images. ⁴ And they threw down before him, the altars of the Baalim, and, the sun–pillars which were on high above them, he hewed down,––and, the Sacred Stems and the carved images and the molten images, brake he in pieces and ground to dust, and tossed over the face of the graves, of them who had been sacrificing unto them. ⁵ And, the bones of the priests, burned he upon their altars,––and so purified Judah and Jerusalem: ⁶ also throughout the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even as far as Naphtali,––searched he their houses, round about. ⁷ And, when he had thrown down the altars and the Sacred Stems, and, the images, he had beaten to powder, and, the sun–pillars, he had hewn down throughout all the land of Israel, then returned he to Jerusalem.

³ I will not set before mine eyes, a vile thing,––The doing of them who fall away, I hate, It shall not cleave unto me;

³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings; ³⁶ Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare: ³⁷ Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to mischievous demons; ³⁸ And poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, And the land was polluted with blood–shed;

⁴⁷ Yet, not in their ways, didst thou walk, nor, according to their abominations, didst thou do,––As though that were quite too little, thou didst corrupt thyself beyond them, in all thy ways.

²⁶ And he said: If thou, wilt indeed hearken, to the voice of Yahweh thy God, And, the thing that is right in his eyes, thou wilt do, And so give ear to his commandments, And keep all his statutes, None of the sicknesses which I laid on the Egyptians, will I lay upon thee, For, I, am Yahweh, thy physician.

¹³ Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere, And, him, shalt thou serve,––And, by his name, shalt thou swear.

¹³ and will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee,––and bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy corn, and thy new wine and thine oil, the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock, upon the soil, which he swart unto thy fathers to give unto thee.

¹⁵ and Yahweh, will turn away, from thee, all disease,––and, as for all the sore sicknesses of Egypt which thou knowest, he will not lay them upon thee, but will put them upon all who hate thee;

¹² Now, therefore, O Israel, what is, Yahweh thy God, asking of thee,––but to revere Yahweh thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul:

²⁰ Yahweh thy God, shalt thou revere, Him, shalt thou serve,––And, unto him, shalt thou cleave, And, in his name, shalt thou swear.

¹³ And it shall come to pass, if ye will, hearken, unto my commandments, which, I am commanding you, today,––to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him, with all your heart, and with all your soul, ¹⁴ then [saith he] I will give the rain of your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain; so shalt thou gather in thy corn, and thy new wine, and thine oil;

⁴ After Yahweh your God, shall ye walk, And, him, shall ye revere,––And, his commandments, shall ye observe, And, unto his voice, shall ye hearken, And, him, shall ye serve, And, unto him, shall ye cleave.

¹ And it shall be, if thou wilt, hearken, unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I am commanding thee, today, then will Yahweh thy God set thee on high, above all the nations of the earth; ² and all these blessings shall come in upon thee, and reach thee,––because thou dost hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God:–– ³ Blessed, shalt thou be in the city,––and, blessed, shalt thou be in the field: ⁴ Blessed, shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle,––the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock: ⁵ Blessed, shall be thy basket, and thy kneading–trough: ⁶ Blessed, shalt thou be when thou comest in,––and, blessed, shalt thou be when thou goest out: ⁷ Yahweh will deliver thine enemies who rise up against thee, to be routed before thee,––one way, shall they come out against thee, and, seven ways, shall they flee before thee: ⁸ Yahweh will command to be with thee, the blessing, in thy storehouses, and in all whereunto thou settest thy hand,––and will bless thee in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee: ⁹ Yahweh will confirm thee unto himself for a holy people, as he sware unto thee,––because thou dost keep the commandments of Yahweh thy God, and dost walk in his ways. ¹⁰ And all the peoples of the earth shall see that, the name of Yahweh, hath been called upon thee,––and shall be afraid of thee. ¹¹ And Yahweh will cause thee to abound in that which is good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy soil,––upon the soil which Yahweh sware unto thy fathers, to give unto thee: ¹² Yahweh will open unto thee his rich storehouse––the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless every work of thy hand, so shalt thou lend unto many nations, but, thou, shalt not borrow: ¹³ And Yahweh, will give thee, to be the head, and not the tail, and thou shalt be only above, and shalt not be beneath,––because thou dost hearken unto the commandments of Yahweh thy God, which I am commanding thee, today, to observe and to do; ¹⁴ and dost not turn side from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right hand or to the left,––to go after other gods, to serve them.

¹⁴ Now, therefore, revere ye Yahweh, and serve him, in sincerity and in truth,––and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Yahweh.
¹⁵ But, if it be, a vexation, in your eyes, to serve Yahweh, choose ye for yourselves, today, whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served, that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye are dwelling,––but, I and my house, will serve Yahweh.

²¹ But the people said unto Joshua,––Nay! but, Yahweh, will we serve.

²⁴ And the people said unto Joshua,––Yahweh our God, will we serve, and, unto his voice, will we hearken.

³ And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If, with all your heart, ye are returning unto Yahweh, then put away the gods of the foreigner out of your midst, and the Ashtoreths––and firmly set your heart towards Yahweh, and serve him, alone, that he may deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

²⁰ Then said Samuel unto the people––Do not fear, ye, have done all this wrong,––nevertheless, do not turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh, with all your heart;

²⁴ Only, revere Yahweh, and serve him in truth, with all your heart,––for see, what great things he hath done with you.

³ Who forgiveth all thine iniquity, Who healeth all thy diseases;

¹⁶ He, the heights, shall inhabit, A stronghold of crags, shall be his refuge,––His bread, hath been delivered, His waters, have been made sure.

²⁴ Neither shall the inhabitant say, I am sick,––The people who dwell therein, have been forgiven iniquity.

² And shall spread them out––To the sun, and, To the moon, and, To all the host of the heavens, Whom they have loved, And whom they have served, And after whom they have walked, And whom they have sought, And to whom they have bowed themselves down,––They shall not be gathered, Neither shall they be buried, As heaps of dung on the face of the ground, shall they be.

¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room.

¹⁰ Then saith Jesus unto him, Withdraw, Satan! for it is written,––The Lord thy God, shalt thou worship, and, to him alone, render divine service.

⁸ So Abraham breathed his last, and died, in a fine old age, old and satisfied,––and was gathered unto his people.

²⁹ And Isaac breathed his last, and died, and was added unto his people, old, and satisfied with days,––and Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

¹⁴ Blessed, shalt thou be beyond all the peoples,––there shall not be in thee a barren male or female, nor among thy cattle;

⁴ Blessed, shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle,––the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock:

¹ Now, David, was old, and satisfied with days,––so he made Solomon his son king, over Israel;

²⁶ Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.

¹⁰ His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;

¹⁷ So Job died, old and satisfied with days.

²³ But, thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of destruction, Men of bloodshed and deceit, shall not live out half their days; But, I, will trust in thee.

¹⁰ The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

³⁸ Thus hath he blessed them, and they have multiplied greatly, And, their cattle, he maketh not few.

¹³ Our garners, full, pouring out from one kind to another; Our flocks, multiplying by thousands––by myriads, in our open fields:

²⁰ There shall be thenceforward, no more, A suckling of a few days, or an elder, Who filleth not up his days,––But, a youth, a hundred years old, may die, Yea, a sinner, a hundred years old, shall be accursed,

¹⁰ Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, Yea, I pray you, put me to the proof hereby, saith Yahweh of hosts, whether I will not open to you the sluices of the heavens, and pour out for you blessing, until there be no room. ¹¹ Then will I rebuke, for you, the devourer that he spoil not, for you, the fruit of the ground,–– neither shall the vine in the field, be barren to you, saith Yahweh of hosts.

⁵ And they brake up,––and it came to pass that, the terror of God, was on the cities which were round about them, so that they pursued not after the sons of Jacob.

¹⁴ Peoples have heard, they tremble,––A pang, hath seized the dwellers of Philistia: ¹⁵ Then, were amazed the chiefs of Edom, The mighty ones of Moab, there seizeth them, a trembling,––Melted away, have all the dwellers of Canaan: ¹⁶ There falleth upon them a terror and dread, With the greatness of thine arm, are they struck dumb as a stone,––Till thy people pass over, O Yahweh, Till the people pass over, which thou hast made thine own:––

²⁵ This day, will I begin to extend the dread of thee, and the fear of thee, over the face of the peoples under all the heavens,––who will hear the report of thee, then will they quake, and writhe in pain because of thee.

²³ But Yahweh thy God will deliver them up before thee,––and discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they are destroyed;

²³ then will Yahweh dispossess all these nations, from before you,––and ye shall dispossess nations greater and stronger than ye:

²⁵ No man shall stand before you,––the dread of you and the fear of you, will Yahweh your God put forth over the face of all the land, whereon ye shall tread, as he spake unto you.

⁹ and said unto the men, I know that Yahweh hath given unto you the land,––and that the terror of you hath fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land, have melted away, from before you. ¹⁰ For we have heard how Yahweh, dried up, the waters of the Red Sea from before you, when ye came forth out of Egypt,––and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites who were over the Jordan unto Sihon and unto Og, whom ye devoted to destruction; ¹¹ and, when we heard, then did our heart melt, and there rose up no longer any spirit in any man because of you,––for, as for Yahweh your God, he, is God––in the heavens above, and upon the earth beneath.

¹⁵ And there came to be a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people, the outposts and the spoilers, they too, trembled,––and the earth quaked, so it became a preternatural trembling.

⁶ Now, the Lord, had caused the camp of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, noise of horses, a noise of a great host,––and they said one to another––Lo! the king of Israel hath hired against us––the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come against us.

¹⁴ And they smote all the cities round shout Gerar, for the dread of Yahweh was upon them,––and they plundered all the cities, for, great plunder, was there in them.

⁴⁰ As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.

²⁰ Moreover also, the hornet, will Yahweh thy God send among them,––until they are destroyed who are left remaining, and who are hiding themselves from thy face.

¹¹ Then passed ye over the Jordan, and came in unto Jericho, and, when they would have made war with you––even the lords of Jericho––the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, then delivered I them into your hand. ¹² And I sent before you the hornet, which drave them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites,––not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

²² So will Yahweh thy God, clear away, these nations from before thee, little by little,––thou mayest not consume them, at once, lest the wild beast of the field, should multiply ever thee.

⁶³ But, as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them,––so the Jebusites have dwelt with the sons of Judah, in Jerusalem, until this day.

¹⁰ But they did not dispossess the Canaanites who were dwelling in Gazer,––so the Canaanites have dwelt in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and have become tributary servants.

¹² The sons of Manasseh, however, could not dispossess these cities,––but the Canaanites were determined to remain in this land; ¹³ but, when the sons of Israel had waxed strong, they put the Canaanites under tribute,––though they, dispossessed, them not.

¹ Now, these, are the nations which Yahweh left, that he might, by them, put Israel to the proof,––all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan; ² that the generations of the sons of Israel might certainly get to know, by being taught to make war,––such, at least, as aforetime knew nothing thereof:–– ³ five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites dwelling in Mount Lebanon,––from Mount Baal–hermon as far as the entering in of Hamath. ⁴ So then [these] were [left], that, by them, he might put Israel to the proof,––to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Yahweh which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

³⁴ Then said Yahweh unto Moses––Do not fear him, for, into thy hand, have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land,––Therefore shalt thou do unto him, as thou didst unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was dwelling in Heshbon.

³ Ye shall therefore have a south corner, from the desert of Zin, on the side of Edom,––so shall ye have a south boundary, from the end of the salt sea, eastward: ⁴ and the boundary shall go round for you from the south towards the cliffs of Akrabbim, then cross over towards Zin, and the extension thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh–barnea, then shall it reach out to Hazar–addar, and cross over towards Azmon; ⁵ then shall the boundary turn round from Azmon towards the ravine of Egypt,––and the extension thereof shall be towards the sea. ⁶ And, for a west boundary,––ye shall have the great sea, even a boundary, this, shall serve you as west boundary. ⁷ And, this, shall serve you as a north boundary,––From the great sea, ye shall draw a line for you, to Mount Hor: ⁸ From Mount Hor, ye shall draw a line to the entering in of Hamath,––and the extension of the boundary shall be towards Zedad; ⁹ then shall the boundary reach out towards Ziphron, and the extension thereof, be to Hazar–enan. This, shall serve you as a north, boundary. ¹⁰ Then shall ye draw for yourselves a line, for an east boundary,––from Hazar–enan towards Shepham; ¹¹ and the boundary shall go down from Shepham towards Riblah, on the east of Ain,––then shall the boundary go down, and strike on the side of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward: ¹² then shall the boundary go down towards the Jordan, and the extension thereof be to the salt sea. This, shall be your land, by the boundaries thereof, round about. ¹³ And Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying,––This, is the land, which ye shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh had commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and the half tribe. ¹⁴ For the tribe of the sons of the Reubenites, by their ancestral house, and the tribe of the sons of Gad, by their ancestral house, have received,––and, the half tribe of Manasseh, have received, their inheritance: ¹⁵ the two tribes, and the half tribe, have received their inheritance––on this side Jordan near Jericho, eastwards, towards sunrise.

² And Yahweh said unto me: Do not fear him, for, into thy hand, have I delivered him, and all his people, and his land,––so then thou shalt do unto him, as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who was dwelling in Heshbon.

²⁴ every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread, yours, shall it be,––from the desert and the Lebanon, from the river––the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea, shall be your boundary.

⁴ From the desert and this Lebanon, even unto the great river––the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea, toward the going in of the sun, shall be your boundary.

⁷ Then, ye, shall rise up out of the ambush, and take possession of the city,––and Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

¹⁸ Then said Yahweh unto Joshua––Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand, towards Ai, for, into thy hand, will I deliver it. So Joshua stretched out with the javelin which was in his hand, towards the city.

⁸ And Yahweh said unto Joshua: Do not fear because of them, for, into thy hand, have I delivered them,––not a man of them shall stand before thee.

¹⁹ but do not, ye, stay, chase after your enemies, so shall ye attack them in the rear,––do not suffer them to enter into their cities, for Yahweh your God hath delivered them into your hand.

⁴⁴ And Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he had sworn unto their fathers,––and there stood not a man before them, of all their enemies; all their enemies, did Yahweh deliver into their hand.

¹⁴ But lo! I am going today, in the way of all the earth,––ye must acknowledge, therefore, with all your heart and with all your soul, that there hath not failed a single thing, out of all the good things which Yahweh your God spake concerning you, the whole, hath come to pass to you, there hath not failed thereof, a single thing.

⁸ then I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who were dwelling over the Jordan, and they fought with you,––then delivered I them into your hand, and ye took possession of their land, so I destroyed them from before you.

¹² And I sent before you the hornet, which drave them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites,––not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

¹⁸ then did Yahweh drive out all the peoples, even the Amorites were dwelling in the land, from before us,––we too, will serve Yahweh, for, he, is our God.

⁴ And Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand,––and they smote them in Bezek, ten thousand men.

²¹ Then did Yahweh, God of Israel, deliver up Sihon, and all his people, into the hand of Israel, and they smote them,––so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that land.

⁴ So David yet again enquired if Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him,––and said––Arise, go down to Keilah, for I am about to deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

²¹ And, Solomon, became ruler over all the kingdoms, from the River [even unto] the land of the Philistines, and as far as the boundary of Egypt,––and these were bringing presents, and serving Solomon, all the days of his life.

²⁴ For, he, had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even as far as Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River,––and he had, peace, on all sides of him, round about.

¹³ And lo! a certain prophet, drew near unto Ahab king of Israel, and said,––Thus, saith Yahweh, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold me! delivering it into thy hand, today, so shalt thou know that, I, am, Yahweh.

⁸ So let him have dominion, From sea to sea, And from the River[=Euphrates] unto the ends of the earth;

¹² Take heed to thyself, Lest thou solemnise a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, whereupon, thou, art about to enter,––Lest he become a snare in thy midst;

¹⁵ Lest thou solemnise a covenant, with the inhabitant of the land,––And then, as surely as they go unchastely after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, So surely will he invite thee, And thou wilt eat of his sacrifice;

¹ And Israel remained among the acacias,––and the people began to go away unchastely unto the daughters of Moab; ² who invited the people unto the sacrifices of their gods,––so the people did eat, and did bow themselves down unto their gods.

² and Yahweh thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them, thou shalt devote them to destruction, thou shalt not solemnise with them a covenant, neither shalt thou shew them favour;

¹⁶ and thou shalt devour all the peoples whom, Yahweh thy God, is delivering up unto thee, thine eye shall not look with pity upon them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, for, a snare, would it be unto thee.

¹⁴ So the men took of their provision,––but, the bidding of Yahweh, had they not asked.
¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and solemnised with them a covenant to let them live,––and the princes of the assembly, entered into an oath with them. ¹⁶ And it came to pass, at the end of three days after they had solemnised with them a covenant, that they heard that, near neighbours, they were unto them, and, in their midst, they were dwelling. ¹⁷ So the sons of Israel brake up, and came in unto their cities on the third day,––their cities, being Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath–jearim. ¹⁸ And the sons of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the assembly had sworn unto them by Yahweh, God of Israel,––but all the assembly murmured against the princes. ¹⁹ And all the princes said unto all the assembly, We, have sworn unto them, by Yahweh, God of Israel,––now, therefore, we may not touch them. ²⁰ This, will we do unto them, even let them live,––lest there come on us wrath, because of the oath which we have sworn unto them. ²¹ And the princes said unto them––Let them live. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the assembly, as the princes spake unto them.
²² And Joshua called for them, and spake unto them, saying,––Wherefore did ye deceive us, saying––We are, very far, from you, whereas, ye, in our midst, are dwelling? ²³ Now, therefore, accursed, ye are,––and ye shall not cease to be in bond–service as hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God.

¹ And there came to be a famine, in the days of David, for three years, year after year, so then David sought the face of Yahweh,––and Yahweh said––It respecteth Saul and his house, as to bloodshed, in that he put to death the Gibeonites. ² The king therefore called the Gibeonites, and said unto them (now, the Gibeonites, were, not of the sons of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites, with whom, the sons of Israel, had entered into an oath, and Saul had sought to smite them, in his jealousy for the sons of Israel and Judah)––

³⁵ But had fellowship with the nations, and learned their doings;

¹⁵ And what concord hath Christ with Beliar? Or what part hath a believer with an unbeliever?

² and Yahweh thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them, thou shalt devote them to destruction, thou shalt not solemnise with them a covenant, neither shalt thou shew them favour; ³ neither shalt thou intermarry with them,––thy daughter, shalt thou not give unto his son, nor, his daughter, shalt thou take for thy son;

³⁰ take heed to thyself, lest thou be thrust after them, after they have been destroyed from before thee,––and lest thou enquire after their gods, saying––In what manner, did these nations serve their gods, that, I too, may do likewise?

¹³ know, that Yahweh your God will no further drive out these nations from before you,––but they will become unto you a snare and a hook, and a goad in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye have perished from off this goodly soil, which Yahweh your God hath given unto you.

³ Wherefore also I said, I will not drive them out from before you,––but they shall be your adversaries, and, their gods, shall become unto you a snare.

²¹ And Saul said to himself––I will give her unto him, that she may prove to him a snare, and that, the hand of the Philistines, may be upon him. So then Saul said unto David, A second time, mayest thou become my son–in–law today.

¹⁶ That he may deliver up Israel,––on account of the sin of Jeroboam, which he committed, and which he caused, Israel, to commit.

³⁶ Yea they served their idols, and they became to them a snare:

²⁶ And they should wake up to sobriety out of, the adversary’s, snare,––though they have been taken alive by him for, that one’s, will.