Exodus 19 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now on the first day of the third month after the departure of the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, on the very day they came to the wilderness of Sina; ² when they had removed from Raphidin and came to the wilderness of Sina and Israel were encamping there before the mount, ³ Moses went up to the mount of God. And God called to him out of the mount and said, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and announce to the children of Israel; ⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians; and how I have taken you up as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself. ⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine: ⁶ but as for you, you shall be a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words thou shalt deliver to the children of Israel. ⁷ Upon this Moses came and called the elders of the people and laid before them all these words which God enjoined on them. ⁸ And all the people with one consent answered and said, All that God hath said we will do and we will be obedient. And Moses carried up these words to God. ⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold I will come to thee in a pillar of cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee and believe thee for ever. ¹⁰ When Moses told the Lord the words of the people the Lord said to Moses, Go down and testify to the people and purify them to-day and to-morrow and let them wash their garments ¹¹ and be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will descend upon mount Sina in the sight of all the people. ¹² Therefore thou shalt remove the people to some distance round about and say, Take heed to yourselves not to go up to the mount nor touch any part of it. Whoever shall touch the mount shall surely die. ¹³ A hand shall not touch him, for he shall be stoned with stones or shot with a dart. Whether man or beast it shall not live. When the voices and the trumpets and the cloud are gone from the mount, they may go up to the mount. ¹⁴ So Moses went down from the mount to the people and purified them, and they washed their garments. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready, for three days you must not approach a wife. ¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all the people in the camp were terrified. ¹⁷ Then Moses led forth the people out of the camp to meet God, and they halted at the foot of the mount. ¹⁸ The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed. ¹⁹ Still the sounds of the trumpet waxed louder and louder. Moses had spoken and God had answered him by a voice. ²⁰ And the Lord descended upon mount Sina on the summit of the mount, and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up. ²¹ And God spoke to Moses saying, Go down and testify to the people; peradventure they may come nigh to God to observe, and a multitude of them may perish. ²² And let the priests who come near to the Lord God be purified, lest peradventure the Lord withdraw from them. ²³ And Moses said to God, The people cannot advance to mount Sina; for thou hast testified to us saying, Set apart the mount and hallow it. ²⁴ But the Lord said to him, Away; go down and come up thou and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests nor the people presume to come up to God lest peradventure the Lord destroy some of them. ²⁵ And when Moses had gone down to the people and spoken to them,

² This month shall he to you the beginning of months. It is the first for you among the months of the year.

⁶ And it shall be kept up by you until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

¹ And the whole congregation of the children of Israel removed from Aileim and came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Aileim and Sina.

¹⁶ even till the morrow after the last week, you shall reckon fifty days, and then offer a sacrifice of new corn to the Lord. ¹⁷ You shall bring from your dwelling two loaves, as loaves of dedication. They shall consist of two tenths of fine flour. Being of the first fruits for the Lord, ¹⁸ they shall be baked with leaven. And with the loaves you shall present seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, and one young bull from the herd, and two rams without blemish; and they shall be a whole burnt offering for the Lord; and their sacrifices, and their libations, shall be a sacrifice, a smell of fragrance for the Lord.

¹⁵ And they removed from Raphadin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina.

¹ Now when Moses was feeding the flocks of Jothor his father in law the priest of Madiam he led them below the wilderness and came to the mountain Choreb.

¹² Upon which God spoke to Moses saying, That I will be with thee, even this is the sign for thee. And because I will send thee, therefore when thou hast brought my people out of Egypt you shall worship God on this mountain.

¹ When all the congregation of the Israelites had removed from the wilderness of Sin according to their encampments by the command of the Lord and encamped at Raphidin and there was no water for the people to drink,

⁸ Now Amalek had come and made war on Israel at Raphidin,

⁵ Jothor the father in law of Moses came out to him with his sons and his wife to the wilderness where he was encamped by the mount of God.

³⁰ And when forty years were completed, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness at mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush,

³⁸ This is the person who was in the congregation in the wilderness, with the angel who spake to him at mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received living oracles to give to us;

²⁴ These things have an allegorical meaning, for by these women are represented the two covenants; one from mount Sina, bringing forth for bondage; this is Hagar.

⁴ But when the Lord saw that he drew near to look; the Lord called to him out of the bush saying, Moses! Moses! And he said, What is it?

²¹ Then the people stood afar off, and Moses went into the thick darkness, where God was.

¹⁵ Moses then went up with Joshua to the mount and the cloud covered the mount. ¹⁶ And the glory of God descended on mount Sina and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud. ¹⁷ Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like fire blazing on the top of the mount in the view of the Israelites; ¹⁸ and Moses went into the midst of the cloud and ascended the mount and remained there forty days and forty nights.

² and be ready against the morning and thou shalt come up to mount Sina, and wait for me there on the top of the mount,

⁵ I indeed stood between the Lord and you, at that time, to declare to you the words of the Lord, because you were terrified at the fire, and did not go up to the mountain; ⁶ and he said, I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. ⁷ Thou shalt have no other gods before me. ⁸ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing in the heaven above, or of any of the things which are on the earth below, or which are in the waters below the earth. ⁹ Thou shalt not worship them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a zealous God, retributing, to them who hate me, the sins of fathers upon children, to the third and fourth generation, ¹⁰ and shewing mercy for thousands [of generations] to them who love me, and keep my commandments. ¹¹ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not purify him who taketh his name in vain. ¹² Keep the day of the sabbaths to hallow it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. ¹³ Labour six days, and do all thy works; ¹⁴ but on the seventh day are the sabbaths for the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work; neither thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the proselyte who sojourneth with thee; that thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and thy labouring beast may rest as well as thou. ¹⁵ Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm; for this cause the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbaths and hallow it. ¹⁶ Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst live long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not commit murder. ¹⁸ Thou shalt not commit adultery. ¹⁹ Thou shalt not steal. ²⁰ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. ²¹ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing which is thy neighbour's. ²² These are the injunctions which the Lord delivered verbally, to all your congregation, at the mount, out of the midst of the fire. There was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tempest, and a loud voice. And he added no more. And having written them on two tables of stone, he gave them to me. ²³ Now when you heard the voice from the midst of the fire [the mountain indeed was burning with fire] you came to me, even all the leaders of your tribes, and your elders, ²⁴ and said, Behold the Lord our God hath shewn us his glory, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire. We have this day seen that God can speak to man, and he may live. ²⁵ Now therefore let us not die, for this great fire will consume us, if we continue any longer to hear the voice of the Lord our God; and we shall die. ²⁶ For what mortal, who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, can live. ²⁷ Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and thou shalt rehearse to us all that the Lord our God may speak to thee, and we will hear and do it. ²⁸ And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people, even all that they have spoken to thee. All that they have said is right. ²⁹ O that they may have their heart so disposed in them as to fear me, and to keep my commandments continually, that it may be well with them, and their children for ever. ³⁰ Go say to them, Return to your houses. ³¹ But as for thee, Stand thou here with me, and I will speak to thee all the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them; and let them act accordingly in the land which I give them for a possession.

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses saying, Behold I have made thee a god to Pharao, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet, ² and thou shalt deliver to him all that I command thee. And Aaron thy brother shall speak to Pharao, to send the Israelites out of his land. ³ But I will let Pharao's heart be stubborn, and I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. ⁴ And when Pharao will not hearken to you, I will lay my hand upon Egypt and bring out my people, the children of Israel with my host out of the land of Egypt with great vengeance. ⁵ And all the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I lay my hand on Egypt and bring the children of Israel out from among them. ⁶ So Moses acted in conjunction with Aaron; and as the Lord commanded so they did. ⁷ Now Moses was eighty years old and his brother Aaron was eighty three years old, when he spoke to Pharao. ⁸ And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, ⁹ If Pharao shall speak to you and say, Give us a sign or a miracle, then thou shalt say to thy brother Aaron, Take this staff and throw it on the ground in the presence of Pharao and before his attendants and it shall be a dragon. ¹⁰ So Moses went in with Aaron before Pharao and his attendants and they did as the Lord commanded them. But when Aaron threw down the staff before Pharao and before his attendants and it became a dragon, ¹¹ Pharao called together the wise men of Egypt and the sorcerers. And the Egyptian enchanters by their sorceries did in like manner. ¹² They cast down each his staff, which became dragons. Though Aaron's staff devoured their staves, ¹³ yet Pharao's heart was stubborn and he hearkened not to them to do as the Lord commanded them. ¹⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, Pharao's heart is obstinately bent not to let the people go.

⁹ Take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently. Forget not all the things which thine eyes have seen, and let them not depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; that thou mayst impress upon thy children, and thy childrens' children,

³³ Hath any nation heard the voice of the living God, speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and are still alive? ³⁴ Or hath God come, and made trial to take for himself a nation out of the midst of a nation, by trials, and by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and with a strong hand, and an outstretched arm, and with great visions, according to all that the Lord our God hath done in Egypt, before thine eyes? ³⁵ So that thou must needs know that the Lord thy God is very God, and that there is none else besides him. ³⁶ From heaven he caused his voice to be heard to instruct thee; and on earth he shewed thee his great fire. And thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

² Then Moses called all the sons of Israel, and said to them, You have seen all the things which the Lord did in Egypt, before your eyes, to Pharao and his servants, and all his land;

¹¹ As an eagle would defend his nest, And, when anxious for his young, would spread out his wings, and receive them, And bare them up on his shoulders; ¹² The Lord alone conducted them, And there was not a strange god with them.

³¹ but they who wait upon God shall have new strength; they shall put forth fresh feathers like eagles; they shall run and not be wearied; they shall march on and shall not faint.

⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old.

¹⁴ and to the woman were given two wings of the great eagle that she might fly to the wilderness to her place where she is nourished for a time and times and the half of a time from the face of the serpent.

²⁹ And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord and the voices will cease and there will be no more hail and rain, that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's.

²⁶ and said, If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and do the things well pleasing in his sight, and hearken to his commandments, and keep all these his rules of rectitude, I will not bring upon thee any of the diseases which I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord thy God who healeth thee.

²² If you will hearken diligently to this voice of mine, and do whatever I command thee, and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine, but you shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation. These words you shall deliver to the children of Israel; If you will hearken diligently to my voice, and do all that I command thee, I will be an enemy to thy enemies, and an adversary to thy adversaries;

⁷ Then he took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do and we will be obedient.

²⁰ God hath indeed taken you and brought you out of the land of Egypt; out of the iron furnace; out of Egypt, to be to him a chosen people, as at this day;

² The Lord your God made a covenant with you at Choreb.

⁶ For thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a peculiar people to himself, in preference to all the nations which are on the face of the earth.

¹⁴ Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, belong to the Lord thy God, the earth also, and all that are therein.

²⁷ the blessing, if you will hearken to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I this day command you;

² Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations on the face of the earth,

²¹ Every thing which dieth of itself you shall not eat. It may be given to the stranger, who is in thy cities, and he may eat it, or thou mayst sell it to the stranger. Because thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam.

¹⁸ And the Lord hath this day chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, as he hath said, that thou mayst keep his commandments,

¹ Now it shall come to pass, that if thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and perform all these commandments which I this day give thee in charge, the Lord thy God will set thee high above all the nations of the earth;

⁸ When the Most High divided nations; When he dispersed the children of Adam, He settled the boundaries of nations, According to the number of God's messengers; ⁹ And the Lord's portion was his people Jacob; Israel was his lot of inheritance.

²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the Lord, and hearken to his voice.

²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold obedience is better than good sacrifice; and to hearken, is better than the fat of rams.

⁵³ since thou hast set them apart for thyself for an heritage from among all the people of the earth, as thou spakest by the ministry of thy servant Moses, when thou, Lord, Lord, didst bring our fathers out of the land of Egypt. Then Solomon spoke of the house as if he had just finished building it, The Sun he pointed out in heaven; The Lord said, he would dwell in darkness. Build thou my house; a house becoming thyself to dwell in when new. Behold this is written in the book of the Ode.

¹¹ or who can rise up against me and stand to it? If the whole world is mine,

¹ A Psalm by David, on the first day of the week. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, the World and all its inhabitants.

¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth; to them who seek his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹ I claim all the birds of the air; and to me belong the ripe fruits of the field. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the World is mine and the fulness thereof.

¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from age to age over them who fear him: and his saving goodness over children's children, ¹⁸ for them who keep his covenant, and remember his commands to do them.

⁴ For the Lord hath made choice of Jacob for himself; of Israel for his peculiar treasure.

¹² My vineyard which is before me shall continue to be mine. Solomon shall have the thousand pieces of silver, and they who take care of its fruits, two hundred.

¹⁹ If you indeed be willing and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land:

⁸ but thou Israel my servant; thou Jacob, whom I have chosen; thou seed of Abraham whom I loved!

¹ Still however thus saith the Lord, the God who made thee Jacob, and who formed thee, Israel! fear not. Because I have redeemed thee; have called thee by thy name; thou art mine;

⁴ For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, whoever of them shall keep my sabbaths, and chuse the things in which I delight and adhere to my covenant;

²³ but only gave them this charge saying, "Hearken to my voice and I will be your God and you shall be my people; and walk in all my ways which I command you that it may be well with you."

¹⁶ Unlike to these is the portion of Jacob: for he who formed all things is his inheritance. His name is, The Lord.

⁴ which I enjoined on your fathers, at the time when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; out of the iron furnace saying, Hearken to my voice, and do all that I command you: and you shall be my people, and I will be your God; ⁵ that I may perform the oath which I sware to your fathers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Thereupon I answered and said, So be it, O Lord. ⁶ Then the Lord said to me, Read these words in the cities of Juda and in the streets of Jerusalem, and say, Hear the words of this covenant and do them. ⁷ [Omitted]

³¹ Behold the days are coming, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Juda. ³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them. ³³ For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.

³⁴ And at the end of the days I Nabuchodonosar lifted up mine eyes to heaven, and mine understanding was restored to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and glorified him who liveth forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion and his kingdom is to endless generations, ³⁵ and all the inhabitants of the earth are reckoned as nothing; and he doth according to his pleasure in the army of heaven and in the habitations of the earth; and there is none who can stay his hand, or say to him, What hast thou done.

¹⁷ And they shall be, saith the Lord Almighty, an acquisition for me, on the day which I make; and I will make choice of them, as a man maketh choice of a son who serveth him.

²⁶ for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

²⁸ But if any one say to you, This was sacrificed to an idol, eat not of it for the sake of him who gave the information; and for conscience sake; for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.

¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called, shewed obedience by going to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and set out on his journey not knowing whither he was going.

⁴⁴ Because I am the Lord your God, therefore you must hallow yourselves, and be holy, because I the Lord your God am holy. And you must not defile yourselves with any of the reptiles, which creep on the earth, ⁴⁵ because I am the Lord who brought you up out of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, because I the Lord am holy.

² Speak to the congregation of the children of Israel; and thon shalt say unto them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

²⁴ and said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God, who have separated you from all the nations,

²⁶ and you shall be consecrated to me. Because I the Lord your God am the Holy One, who hath separated you from all the nations, that you should be mine,

⁷ They shall not take to wife a harlot, nor a woman who hath been defiled, nor a woman divorced from her husband. Because he is consecrated to the Lord his God, ⁸ therefore thou shalt hallow him. He offereth up the gifts of the Lord your God, he shall be hallowed. Because I the Lord am the holy one who halloweth them,

²³ but he shall not approach to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he hath a blemish. And he shall not profane the sanctuary of his God, because I am the Lord who halloweth them.

¹⁹ and be, as he hath made thee, renowned above all the nations, and a boast, and glorious, and that thou mayst be a people dedicated to the Lord, as he hath spoken.

⁹ The Lord establish thee a holy people for himself, as he solemnly promised thy fathers. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and walk in all his ways,

² and he said, The Lord came from Sina And shined upon us out of Seir; He hasted from mount Paran, With myriads from Kades; His angels with him on his right. ³ He compassionated his people; All the sanctified are under thy sway, But these are immediately under thee. ⁴ From His words Moses received the law Which he gave in charge to us, An inheritance for the assemblies of Jacob.

⁶ But you shall be called priests of the Lord, ministers of God. You shall eat the wealth of nations and for their riches be admired.

¹² And he will call this a holy people, redeemed by the Lord; and thou shalt be called the city sought and not forsaken.

¹ therefore I exhort you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God as your rational, religious service;

¹⁷ If any one corrupt the temple of God, him God will destroy; for the temple of God is holy.

²⁷ I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brethren.

¹⁵ but as he who hath called you is holy, be ye also holy in the whole course of your life; ¹⁶ for it is written, "Be ye holy, because I am holy."

⁵ and you yourselves as living stones are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ;

⁹ but you being a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people peculiarly set apart that you may publish the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light

⁶ and made us kings and priests to God, even his father to him be the glory and dominion for the ages of the ages. Amen.

¹⁰ and hast made us kings and priests for our God, and we shall reign on the earth."

⁶ Happy and holy is he who hath a portion in this first resurrection. Over them the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and the Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years.

¹⁶ Go therefore and assemble the Senate of the children of Israel and say to them, The Lord, the God of our fathers hath appeared to me, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob saying, With watchfulness I have observed you and all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

²⁹ And Moses and Aaron went and assembled the Senate of the Israelites, and Aaron rehearsed all the words which God had spoken to Moses; and he performed the miracles in the presence of the people. ³⁰ And the people believed and were rejoiced that God had visited the children of Israel and that he had seen their affliction. So bowing their heads the people worshipped.

¹ I now, brethren, remind you in what terms I proclaimed the gospel which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and in which you have continued,

¹⁹ And they said to Moses, Speak thou to us: and let not God speak to us lest we die.

³ So Moses came and told the people all the words of God and the rules of rectitude, and all the people with one voice answered and said, All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will perform and we will be obedient.

²⁷ Go thou near, and hear all that the Lord our God may say, and thou shalt rehearse to us all that the Lord our God may speak to thee, and we will hear and do it. ²⁸ And the Lord heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me. And the Lord said to me, I have heard the sound of the words of this people, even all that they have spoken to thee. All that they have said is right. ²⁹ O that they may have their heart so disposed in them as to fear me, and to keep my commandments continually, that it may be well with them, and their children for ever.

¹⁷ Thou hast this day chosen God to be thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his rules of rectitude, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice. ¹⁸ And the Lord hath this day chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, as he hath said, that thou mayst keep his commandments, ¹⁹ and be, as he hath made thee, renowned above all the nations, and a boast, and glorious, and that thou mayst be a people dedicated to the Lord, as he hath spoken.

²⁹ were urgent with their brethren, and bound themselves with an oath, entering into a curse and an oath;] that we will walk in the law of God, which was given by the ministry of Moses the servant of God, to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord and his judgments and his statutes;

³¹ And when Israel saw that great hand; what the Lord had done to the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord, and they put confidence in God and in Moses his servant.

¹⁶ And it came to pass on the third day that about dawn there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on mount Sina, and the voice of the trumpet sounded loud, so that all the people in the camp were terrified.

¹⁵ Moses then went up with Joshua to the mount and the cloud covered the mount. ¹⁶ And the glory of God descended on mount Sina and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day the Lord called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

¹¹ So you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. Though the mountain was blazing with fire up to heaven, there was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tempest. ¹² And the Lord uttered to you, from the midst of the fire, the sound of words which you heard. You saw no similitude, but only heard a voice.

³⁶ From heaven he caused his voice to be heard to instruct thee; and on earth he shewed thee his great fire. And thou hast heard his words out of the midst of the fire.

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¹ Then Solomon said, The Lord said he would dwell in thick darkness.

²⁰ And they arose early in the morning, and went out to the wilderness of Thekoe. And as they were marching out, Josaphat stood and cried with a loud voice, and said, Hear me, Juda, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem. Trust in the Lord our God, and you shall be confirmed in your confidence. Confide in his prophet, and you shall prosper.

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air. ¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire!

² A cloud and darkness are around him: justice and judgment are the basis of his throne.

⁹ though Somoron is the head of Ephraim, and the son of Romelias, the head of Somoron, yes though you may not believe nor understand.

¹ A vision concerning Egypt. Behold the Lord is seated on a swift cloud; and he will come into Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence; and the heart of the people shall melt within them.

⁵ While he was yet speaking, behold! a bright cloud overshadowed them; and lo! from the cloud, a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him.

⁷ Then there came a cloud which overshadowed them, and from the cloud came a voice, saying, This is my Son, the Beloved; hearken to him.

³⁴ And while he was thus speaking, a cloud came and overshadowed them. And at entering the cloud, they were terrified. ³⁵ And there came a voice from the cloud, saying, This is my son, the Beloved; hearken to him.

¹⁶ He who hearkeneth to you, hearkeneth to me: and he who rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he who rejecteth me, rejecteth him who sent me.

²⁹ The multitude therefore who were standing by, when they heard it, said, it thundered. Others said, An angel hath spoken to him, ³⁰ Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for yours.

⁷ Behold he is coming with clouds, and every eye shall see him, even they who pierced him; and for him all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. Yes, be it so.

² Thereupon Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, Put away the strange gods which are with you and purify yourselves and change your garments;

¹⁴ So Moses went down from the mount to the people and purified them, and they washed their garments. ¹⁵ And he said to the people, Be ready, for three days you must not approach a wife.

²⁵ And whoever carrieth any of their carcases shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until evening.

⁵ And whoever shall touch his bed must wash his clothes, and wash himself with water, and shall be unclean until the evening.

⁷ And in this manner thou shalt perform their purification. Thou shalt sprinkle them with the water of purification, and a razor shall pass over their whole body, and they shall wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

²¹ Now when the children of Israel had done so to them, and the Levites were purified, and had washed their clothes, and Aaron had solemnly given them up in the presence of the Lord, and had made atonement for them to purify them;

²⁴ And on the seventh day you must wash your clothes, and you shall be clean; and after that you may come into the camp.

⁵ Then Joshua said to the people, Purify yourselves against to-morrow; for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

¹³ Arise, hallow the people, and order them to hallow themselves, against to-morrow. Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, The Anathema is among you. You cannot stand before your enemies, until you remove the Anathema from among you.

⁵ And he said, It is peaceable. I come to sacrifice to the Lord. Sanctify yourselves, and rejoice with me to-day. And when he was hallowing Jessai and his sons and inviting them to the sacrifice,

⁵ he said to them, Hearken, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and hallow the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and remove the uncleanness out of the Holies.

³⁴ And as the priests were but few, and could not flay the whole burnt offerings, the Levites their brethren helped them, until the work was finished, and until the priests had purified themselves. For the Levites had purified themselves with more promptitude than the priests.

¹⁷ Because there were many of the congregation who were not purified, therefore the Levites had it in charge to kill the paschal lamb, for every one who had not been able to purify himself to the Lord. ¹⁸ And because most of the people from Ephraim, and Manasses, and Issachar, and Zabulon, had not purified themselves, but ate the passover contrary to the scripture, therefore Ezekias prayed for them on this account and said, The good Lord make atonement for every heart ¹⁹ which hath directed its course to seek the Lord the God of their fathers, although not according to the purification of the sanctuary.

⁵ And soon as the days of the entertainment were over, Job sent for, and purified them early the next morning, and offered sacrifices for them according to their numbers; a young bull for a sin offering for each of them; for Job said, Perhaps my children have in their mind conceived evil before God. In this manner therefore Job acted after every of those days.

³ [Now Jesus was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel.] ⁴ Then [the Lord] addressing them who stood before him, spoke, saying, Take away from him those filthy garments; [and to him he said, Behold I have taken away thy transgressions] and clothe ye him with a flowing robe

¹¹ Now such some of you were; but, you have washed yourselves; but you are hallowed, but you are acquitted by the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God.

²² let us come with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water.

¹⁴ And I said to him, "Sir, thou knowest" Then he said to me, "These are they who have come out of great affliction and have washed their robes and made them white by the blood of the Lamb.

⁸ therefore I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land, and conduct them to a land good and spacious; to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the country of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and the Evites and the Jebusites.

¹⁸ The whole mountain Sina was enveloped with smoke, because God had descended upon it in fire. And the smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, so that all the people were exceedingly amazed.

²⁰ And the Lord descended upon mount Sina on the summit of the mount, and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount, and Moses went up.

⁵ and the Lord descended in a cloud and stood by him there and called in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ and I will come down and talk with thee there, and I will take a portion of the spirit which is upon thee, and put it upon them; and they will help thee to bear the burden of this people, so that thou shalt not bear them thyself alone.

² and he said, The Lord came from Sina And shined upon us out of Seir; He hasted from mount Paran, With myriads from Kades; His angels with him on his right.

⁹ And he bowed the heaven and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

⁵ O Lord, bow thy heaven and come down: touch the mountains and let them smoke.

¹ If thou wilt open the heaven, at thy presence terror will seize the mountains, and they will melt ² as wax melteth before fire; and a fire will burn up the adversaries, and thy name will be manifest to the adversaries; At thy presence the nations will be troubled.

³ God will come from Thaiman, even the Holy One from the thick shady mountains of Pharan. ⁴ His glory obscured the heavens; and the earth was full of his praise. His splendor will be like light; beaming rays in his hands, which impressed a lasting love of his majesty. ⁵ Before him Logos [the word] will march, and advance into the plain. ⁶ He stood and the earth was shaken: he looked, and nations melted away: the mountains were violently convulsed, the everlasting hills melted.

¹³ No one indeed hath ascended up into heaven, but he who came down from heaven, namely, the son of man who is in heaven.

³⁸ For I am come down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him who sent me.

²⁸ therefore Pharao said, Begone from me. Take heed to thyself not to see my face any more. For the day thou appearest before me thou shalt die.

²¹ And God spoke to Moses saying, Go down and testify to the people; peradventure they may come nigh to God to observe, and a multitude of them may perish.

²³ And Moses said to God, The people cannot advance to mount Sina; for thou hast testified to us saying, Set apart the mount and hallow it.

¹² Take thou heed to thyself that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going, lest it become a stumbling block to you.

⁴ and give thou a charge to this people, saying, You are about to march along by the borders of your brethren, the children of Esau who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, and dread you exceedingly.

⁴ But let there be a considerable distance between you and it. You shall keep at the distance of about two thousand cubits. You must not come near it, that you may know the way you are to march; for you have never heretofore gone this way.

²⁰ for they could not bear this threat, "And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or pierced through with a dart." ²¹ And so awful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am exceedingly terrified and tremble:"

¹⁹ Still the sounds of the trumpet waxed louder and louder. Moses had spoken and God had answered him by a voice.

²⁸ If a bull gore a man or a woman and he or she die, the bull shall be stoned to death and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be held guiltless: ²⁹ but if the bull hath heretofore been accustomed to push with his horns, and this hath been made known to his owner, and he hath not shut him up; if he kill a man or woman, the bull shall be stoned and his owner also may be put to death.

¹⁵ And whoever shall lie with a beast, he shall be put to death, and you shall kill the beast. ¹⁶ And if any woman approach to any beast to be pressed under it, you shall kill the woman and the beast. Let them be put to death. They are guilty.

⁵² in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for it will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

¹⁶ that the Lord himself, with an authoritative command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall be raised first;

²⁰ for they could not bear this threat, "And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or pierced through with a dart."

¹⁰ When Moses told the Lord the words of the people the Lord said to Moses, Go down and testify to the people and purify them to-day and to-morrow and let them wash their garments ¹¹ and be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will descend upon mount Sina in the sight of all the people.

⁴ And the priest in reply said to David, I have no common bread at hand. Because there is none but the holy bread; if thy servants have but kept themselves from women they may eat it. ⁵ And David in answer to the priest, said to him, Of a truth we have kept ourselves from women these three days. When I set out on the journey, all the servants were purified [though the journey was on secular affairs] because they were to be holy this day, on account of my provision for it.

¹⁶ Assemble the people; sanctify the congregation; choose elders. Bring together infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom come forth from his chamber and the bride from her wardrobe.

¹² therefore in this manner will I deal with thee, Israel. But because I will deal thus with thee, prepare, Israel, to invoke thy God:

³ and in the third chariot white horses, and in the fourth chariot bay spotted horses.

³ saying to the priests who were at the house of the Lord Almighty, and saying to the prophets, The dedication came hither in the fifth month as it hath done now for many years.

¹² And the land will mourn in separate families, the family of the house of David by itself and their women by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their women by themselves; ¹³ the family of the house of Levi by itself and their women by themselves; the family of Symeon by itself and their women by themselves; ¹⁴ all the remaining families, every family by itself and their women by themselves.

² And who can abide the day of his coming? Or who can stand his appearance? Since he is coming like the fire of a refiner's furnace; and like the soap of the fullers.

¹⁰ Now the axe is at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore which doth not produce good fruit is to be cut down and cast into the fire. ¹¹ I indeed baptize you in water for a reformation; but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in a holy spirit and fire. ¹² His winnowing instrument is in his hand. He will thoroughly clean his floor, and gather his wheat for the granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."

⁴⁴ Be ye therefore ready prepared, because the son of man cometh at an hour you least expect.

⁵ Withdraw not from each other, unless by mutual consent for a time, that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again that satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

¹¹ Therefore as all these things are to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conversation and godliness, ¹² expecting, and eagerly desiring, the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens, all on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with intense heat,

²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt.

²⁸ Pray therefore for me to the Lord; and let the voices of God and the hail and fire cease and I will send you away and you shall stay no longer. ²⁹ And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city I will spread out my hands to the Lord and the voices will cease and there will be no more hail and rain, that thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's.

⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Behold I will come to thee in a pillar of cloud, that the people may hear me speaking to thee and believe thee for ever.

¹⁸ And all the people looked towards the thunder and the lightnings and the sound of the trumpet and the mount which was smoking; and all the people being struck with terror stood at a distance.

³⁴ the cloud covered the tabernacle of the testimony, and the tabernacle was filled with the glory of the Lord

¹⁷ Is it not now wheat harvest? I will invoke the Lord, and he will send thunder and rain, that you may know, and see that the evil is great which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king. ¹⁸ Then Samuel invoked the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that very day, and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

¹⁴ so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

¹ on the account of this my heart was troubled, and moved violently out of its place. ² Hear the report made by the fierce anger of the Lord! when a threat shall proceed from his mouth; ³ as his dominion extendeth over all under heaven, and his light over the wings of the earth; ⁴ after it he will thunder with a voice; he will thunder with the voice of his indignation. [And should it not make a change in those men when he shall cause his voice to be heard?] ⁵ With his voice the Almighty will thunder to our astonishment; for he hath done great things which we cannot comprehend;

²⁵ Who hath prepared a course for the tempest,

¹¹ But he made darkness his covering, His tent around him was dark water in clouds of air. ¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire! ¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice: ¹⁴ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: he multiplied his lightnings and confounded them.

³ The voice of the Lord on the waters! The God of the glory thundered! The Lord is over many waters. ⁴ The voice of the Lord is with power: the voice of the Lord is with majesty. ⁵ The voice of the Lord rending the cedars! The Lord will rend the cedars of Lebanon, and shatter them to pieces: ⁶ as a young unicorn would a calf; so will the beloved [shatter] Lebanon itself. ⁷ The voice of the Lord bursting through a flame of fire! The voice of the Lord shaking the wilderness. ⁸ The Lord will shake the wilderness of Kades. ⁹ The voice of the Lord collecting the hinds; when he shall lay the forests bare. When in his temple every one uttereth praise; ¹⁰ the Lord will cause that which was deluged to be inhabited: and the Lord will sit enthroned king forever. ¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

³ God in full manifestation, even our God will come and will not keep silence. Before him a fire shall blaze; and around him shall be a mighty tempest.

¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled.

⁴ His lightnings shot a glare through the World: the earth saw and trembled.

²² Will you not fear me, saith the Lord, nor be struck with awe at the presence of me who have by an everlasting decree, made sand a boundary to the ocean, so that it shall not pass it. Though it be tossed with a tempest, it shall not prevail; though the waves thereof roar, they shall not overpass it.

¹⁸ For you are not come to a mountain which might be touched, and to blazing fire, and to gloom, and darkness, and a turbid tempest, ¹⁹ and to the sound of a trumpet, and a sound of words, the hearers of which entreated that the discourse might not be continued to them;

²¹ And so awful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am exceedingly terrified and tremble:"

¹⁰ I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound of a trumpet,

¹ After this I looked and behold a door was opened in the heaven, and the voice which I heard at first like that of a trumpet speaking to me said, Come up hither and I will shew thee the things which must hereafter come to pass.

⁵ And from the throne proceed lightnings and thunders and voices. And there were seven lamps of fire blazing before the throne: these are the seven spirits of God.

⁵ the angel took the censer and filled it with some of the fire of the altar and threw it on the earth. And there were noises and thunders and lightnings and an earthquake.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened; and the ark of his covenant in his temple was seen. And there were lightnings and noises and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

¹⁰ that day when you stood in the presence of the Lord our God at Choreb, on the day of the solemn assembly. For the Lord said to me, Assemble the people before me, and let them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days they live on the earth. And let them teach their children.

⁵ I indeed stood between the Lord and you, at that time, to declare to you the words of the Lord, because you were terrified at the fire, and did not go up to the mountain;

¹⁷ And as the sun was setting there was a flash of fire, and lo! a smoking furnace and lamps of fire passed between the halved parts.

²⁸ and he looked towards Sodom and Gomorra and towards the circumjacent plain, and he beheld and lo! a flame ascended out of the earth like the smoke of a furnace.

² And an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a fire blazing out of a bush. And when he saw that the bush blazed with fire, but was not consumed,

¹³ A hand shall not touch him, for he shall be stoned with stones or shot with a dart. Whether man or beast it shall not live. When the voices and the trumpets and the cloud are gone from the mount, they may go up to the mount.

¹⁷ Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like fire blazing on the top of the mount in the view of the Israelites;

²² These are the injunctions which the Lord delivered verbally, to all your congregation, at the mount, out of the midst of the fire. There was darkness, thick darkness, a turbid tempest, and a loud voice. And he added no more. And having written them on two tables of stone, he gave them to me.

⁵ The mountains shook at the presence of the Lord Eloi, That Sina, at the presence of the Lord God of Israel.

¹¹ And it said, Thou shalt go out to-morrow and stand before the Lord on the mount. Behold the Lord will pass by. Accordingly behold there was a mighty strong blast of wind rending mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind, there was an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake. ¹² And after the earthquake, a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire, there was a sound of a gentle breeze

¹ And soon as Solomon finished his prayer the fire from heaven descended and consumed the whole burnt offerings with their sacrifices. Now the glory of the Lord filled the house ² so that the priests could not enter the house of the Lord at that time, because the glory of the Lord filled the house. ³ And when all the Israelites saw the fire descending and the glory of the Lord on the house, they fell with their face to the ground on the pavement. And when they had worshipped, they sung to the Lord the hymn of praise, For it is good: for It is mercy endureth forever,

⁷ When thou, God, wentest forth before thy people; when thou wast marching through the wilderness; ⁸ the earth shook and the heavens dissolved in showers at the presence of the God of Sina: at the presence of the God of Israel.

³² When he looketh at the earth, he causeth it to tremble; when he toucheth the mountains, they smoke.

⁷ The earth was moved at the presence of the Lord; at the presence of the God of Jacob:

⁴ And the lintel of the door was shaken with the sound of their cry, and the house was filled with smoke.

²⁴ I beheld the mountains; and they were trembling, and all the hills were in perturbation.

⁵ At him the mountains quake and the hills tremble; at his presence the earth is startled; the World and all its inhabitants. ⁶ At the presence of his wrath who can stand, or who can resist his fierce indignation? His wrath dissolveth governments, and by him the rocks are rent to pieces.

⁵ And the valley of my mountains shall be blocked up; and the valley of mountains shall be closed up even to Jasod. It shall be blocked up as it was in the days of the earthquake; in the days of Ozias king of Juda. And when the Lord my God shall come and all the holy ones with him,

⁷ For nation will rise against nation; and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places.

⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ For you are not come to a mountain which might be touched, and to blazing fire, and to gloom, and darkness, and a turbid tempest,

²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth, but he hath now announced, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth but the heaven also."

¹⁰ Now the day of the Lord will come, as a thief at night, when the heavens with a crashing roar shall pass away, and the elements shall be dissolved by fire, and the earth, and all the works thereon, shall be burned up.

⁸ And the temple was filled with smoke because of the glory of God and of his majesty, so that no one could enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

¹³ thou camest down also on mount Sina and didst speak to them from heaven, and give them right judgments and laws of truth and statutes and good commandments.

⁷ [J] "In affliction thou didst call upon me, and I delivered thee. I heard thee in the secret of a tempest. I proved thee at the water of strife.

³ Moses went up to the mount of God. And God called to him out of the mount and said, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and announce to the children of Israel;

¹² the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount and stay there and I will give thee the tables of stone, the law and the commandments which I have written to be promulgated to them. ¹³ Thereupon Moses arose with Joshua his attendant and they went up to the mount of God;

¹⁸ and Moses went into the midst of the cloud and ascended the mount and remained there forty days and forty nights.

⁴ So when Moses had hewn two tables of stone such as the first he arose early in the morning and went up mount Sina, as the Lord had commanded him. And Moses took the two tables of stone

⁹ When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone; the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you. Now I was on the mount forty days, and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water;

³ Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight; why the bush is not consumed.

⁵ And he said, Approach not hither. Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

¹² Therefore thou shalt remove the people to some distance round about and say, Take heed to yourselves not to go up to the mount nor touch any part of it. Whoever shall touch the mount shall surely die. ¹³ A hand shall not touch him, for he shall be stoned with stones or shot with a dart. Whether man or beast it shall not live. When the voices and the trumpets and the cloud are gone from the mount, they may go up to the mount.

²⁰ but, said he, thou canst not see my face; for no man can see my face and live.

¹⁹ But among the men of Baithsamus, the sons of Jechonias did not receive it with joy; because they looked into the ark of the Lord, therefore he smote among them seventy men, including fifty of the men's chiliad. Thereupon the people mourned, because the Lord had inflicted a very great blow on that community;

¹ Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and let thy sacrifice be a readiness to hear rather than the oblation of fools. Because they are not sensible that they do amiss,

²⁸ As we have therefore received a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have gratitude by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and holy awe: ²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.

⁵ Now therefore if you will hearken diligently to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a peculiar people above all the nations; for the whole earth is mine:

⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord.

¹ and the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abiud, having taken each his censer, laid fire on it, and threw incense thereon, and presented before the Lord strange fire, which the Lord had not ordered them; ² upon which a fire darted forth from the Lord, and destroyed them, and they died before the Lord. ³ Whereupon Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord spoke, saying, I will be hallowed by them who come near me, and glorified by all the congregation; and Aaron was pierced with anguish.

⁶ But when they came to the threshing floor of Nachor, Oza stretched forth his hand upon the ark of God to stay it, and took hold of it, because the young bull shook it. ⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Oza, and he smote him there, by the ark of the Lord, in the presence of God. ⁸ Now David was disheartened because the Lord had broke out upon Oza, and that place is to this day called Breach of Oza;

⁹ But when they came to the threshing floor, Oza stretched forth his hand to take hold of the ark, because the bullock caused it to lean: ¹⁰ whereupon the anger of the Lord was kindled against Oza, and he smote him there, because he stretched forth his hand upon the ark, and he died there before God. ¹¹ And David was disheartened because the Lord had made a breach on Oza, and called that place, Breach of Oza, which is still its name.

¹³ for because you did not do this on the former occasion, our God made a breach among us, because we did not seek him with judgment.

³ for they could not keep it at that time, because a sufficient number of priests was not purified, nor were the people assembled at Jerusalem.

¹⁵ they killed the paschal lamb on the fourteenth of the second month. And as the priests and the Levites were humbled, and had purified themselves, they offered whole burnt offerings in the house of the Lord,

¹¹ [J] Depart, depart; come out thence, and touch no polluted thing. Come out from the midst of her; be clean, ye who carry the vessels of the Lord.

⁵ Upon hearing these words Ananias fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard these things.

¹⁰ At that instant she fell at his feet and expired. And the young men coming in found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

³⁰ For this cause many among you are weakly and sick, and many are falling asleep. ³¹ For if we distinguish ourselves, should we not be judged? ³² And being judged, we are corrected by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

¹² Therefore thou shalt remove the people to some distance round about and say, Take heed to yourselves not to go up to the mount nor touch any part of it. Whoever shall touch the mount shall surely die.

⁴ But let there be a considerable distance between you and it. You shall keep at the distance of about two thousand cubits. You must not come near it, that you may know the way you are to march; for you have never heretofore gone this way. ⁵ Then Joshua said to the people, Purify yourselves against to-morrow; for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

²¹ And God spoke to Moses saying, Go down and testify to the people; peradventure they may come nigh to God to observe, and a multitude of them may perish. ²² And let the priests who come near to the Lord God be purified, lest peradventure the Lord withdraw from them.

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Come up to the Lord, thou and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the elders of Israel; and let them at a distance worship the Lord;

⁹ Then Moses and Aaron and Nadab and Abiud and seventy of the senate of Israel went up;

¹² Now ever since the days of John the baptist, the kingdom of the heavens is invaded and invaders are forcibly taking possession of it.

²⁴ Strive with all your might to enter in through the narrow gate; for many, I assure you, will seek to enter, who will not be able.

¹⁶ the law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and into it every one is pressing.

¹⁷ Because the law was given by Moses grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

¹⁵ For the law operateth to produce wrath; for where there is no law, there is no transgression.

⁷ [Now if the ministration of death engraven in letters, on stones, was attended with such glory, that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses, because of the temporary glory of his countenance; ⁸ shall not the ministration of the spirit be much more attended with glory? ⁹ For if that ministration of condemnation was attended with glory, much more doth this ministration of justification abound in glory. ¹⁰ For as many as are of works of law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is every one who will not persevere in all that. are written in the book of the law to do them." ¹¹ And that none is justified by law in the sight of God is evident, for "the just shall live because of faith."

¹⁹ To what purpose then was the law? [b] On the account of transgressions it was superadded until the seed should come, to whom the promise was made; and it was introduced through angels by the hand of a mediator;

²² But the scripture hath shut all up under sin, that the promise for belief in Jesus Christ might be granted to them who believe.

¹⁶ Let us therefore come with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find favour for seasonable assistance.

¹⁹ As we, therefore, brethren, have, by virtue of the blood of Jesus, free access to the holies 20 by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, his flesh;

²¹ and a great high priest over the house of God, ²² let us come with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and the body washed with pure water.

¹⁸ For you are not come to a mountain which might be touched, and to blazing fire, and to gloom, and darkness, and a turbid tempest, ¹⁹ and to the sound of a trumpet, and a sound of words, the hearers of which entreated that the discourse might not be continued to them; ²⁰ for they could not bear this threat, "And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned or pierced through with a dart." ²¹ And so awful was the appearance, that Moses said, "I am exceedingly terrified and tremble:" ²² but you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels ²³ to the general assembly and congregation of first born, enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel. ²⁵ See that you do not reject him who speaketh. For if they did not escape who rejected him who gave forth oracles on earth, how much less shall we who reject him who is from heaven,

²⁹ for our God is a consuming fire.