Exodus 23 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness. ² Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multitude to shut out justice. ³ In passing judgment thou shalt not be influenced by compassion for the needy. ⁴ If thou meet the ox of thy enemy or his ass going astray thou shalt turn it back and restore it to him. ⁵ And if thou seest thine enemy's ass fallen under his burden thou shalt not pass it by, but shalt raise it up with its load. ⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the trial of his cause. ⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes. ⁸ Bribes thou shalt not receive, for they blind the eyes of them who see, and pervert judgment. ⁹ You shall not afflict a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. ¹⁰ Six years thou shalt sow thy ground and gather in the products thereof; ¹¹ but on the seventh thou shalt give it rest and let it lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat, and what they leave, let the wild beasts of the field eat. The same thou shalt do with thy vineyards and thy olives. ¹² Six days thou shalt do thy work; but on the seventh there shall be a rest; that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and that the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may repose. ¹³ You shall keep all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the name of strange gods, nor let it be heard out of your mouth. ¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me; ¹⁵ the festival of unleavened bread you shall carefully observe. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time fixed in the month of new things. For in that month thou didst come out of Egypt. Thou shalt not appear before me empty. ¹⁶ Thou shalt also keep the festival of the ingathering of the first fruits of thy labours employed in sowing thy field; and the festival of completion at the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours from the field. ¹⁷ Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God; ¹⁸ for when I have driven out the nations from before thee I will enlarge thy borders. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; nor shall the fat of my festival remain till the morning. ¹⁹ The dedications of the first products of thy land thou shalt bring to the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in the milk of its dam. ²⁰ Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have prepared for thee. ²¹ Take heed to thyself and hearken to him and disobey him not; for he should not withdraw from you; for my name is upon him. 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; ²³ For my angel shall go before thee as thy leader, and conduct thee to the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Chananite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite, and I will exterminate them. ²⁴ Thou shalt not worship their gods nor serve them. Thou shalt not do according to their works; but destroy utterly and break in pieces their pillars ²⁵ and worship the Lord thy God. And I will bless thy bread and thy wine and thy water, and turn away sickness from you. ²⁶ There shall not be a man childless, nor a woman barren in thy land. The number of your days I will completely fulfil. ²⁷ And I will send terror before thee and confound all the nations to which thou shalt go; and cause all thy adversaries to flee before thee. ²⁸ And I will send hornets before thee, and thou shalt drive out the Amorites and the Evites and the Chananites and the Chettites from before thee. ²⁹ I will not drive them out in one year, lest the land become a waste and the wild beasts of the earth multiply against thee. ³⁰ By little and little I will drive them away from thee until thou art increased and canst possess the land. ³¹ And I will establish thy boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of Philisteim, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates, and deliver into your hands those who are settled in the land, or drive them out from before thee. ³² Thou shalt not make a treaty with them and their gods, ³³ nor shall they dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me. For if thou serve their gods, they will be to thee a stumbling block.

¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes.

¹¹ you shall not steal; you shall not lie; nor shall any one accuse his brother for trifles,

¹⁶ Thou shalt not go about with deceit among thy nation, nor set thyself against the blood of thy neighbour. I am the Lord your God;

²⁰ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

¹⁶ And if a false witness rise up against a man, and accuse him of any crime, ¹⁷ the two men between whom is the controversy, shall stand before the Lord, and before the priests, and before the judges, who may be in those days. ¹⁸ And when the judges have made a strict examination, if the false witness hath testified falsehoods, and risen up against his brother; ¹⁹ you shall do to him as he wickedly thought to do to his brother. thou shalt remove the evil from among you; ²⁰ and the rest, when they hear, will be afraid, and thenceforth proceed no more to commit such evil among you. ²¹ Thine eye shall not pity him; life for life; eye for eye; tooth for tooth; hand for hand; foot for foot.

³ Then the king said, But where is thy master's son? And Siba said to the king, Behold he abideth in Jerusalem; for he said, Now will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

²⁷ But he acted deceitfully with thy servant, before my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in thy sight.

¹⁰ and suborn two wicked men and let them testify against him saying, He renounced God and the king. Then let him be led out and stoned to death. ¹¹ And the men of the city, the elders and freemen who dwelt in his city did as Jezabel had sent to them, even as it was written in the letter she sent them. ¹² So having proclaimed a fast, they set Nabuthi at the head of the people, ¹³ and there came in two wicked men and sat over against him and testified against him saying, Thou hast renounced God and the king. Upon which they led him out of the city, and stoned him with stones so that he died.

³ Who hath not deceived with his tongue; nor done evil to his neighbour; nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.

¹² Deliver me not up to the will of them who are afflicting me. Because false witnesses have risen up against me and injustice hath belied itself;

¹¹ False witnesses having risen up against me, laid to my charge things which I knew not;

⁵ Him, who privily slandered his neighbour, I expelled. With one of a haughty eye and unsatiable heart I would not eat.

³ What should be given thee? Or what return made thee for a deceitful tongue?

¹⁹ as a false witness he spreadeth lies, and soweth discord among brethren.

¹⁸ Honest lips hide hatred; but they who utter reproaches are the greatest fools.

¹⁷ A righteous man declareth the truth as it appeareth to him: but a false witness is deceitful.

⁴ A wicked man hearkeneth to the tongue of transgressors: but a righteous man payeth no attention to lying lips.

⁵ A false witness shall not go unpunished; and he who accuseth unjustly shall not escape.

⁹ Let not a false witness go unpunished; and let him who kindleth mischief perish by it.

²⁸ He who is surety for a foolish son, shall rail at the statute; but the mouth of the wicked shall swallow decisions.

²⁸ A false witness shall perish; but a man who is a witness will speak guardedly.

²⁸ Be not a false witness against thy fellow citizen, nor give a loose to thy lips.

¹⁸ Sharp is a nail and a sword and an arrow: so is a man who beareth false witness against his friend.

²³ The north wind raiseth clouds: and an impudent countenance irritateth the tongue.

¹⁰ Because I heard the whisper of many collected from all around saying, "Join in conspiracy and let us all conspire against him; ye men who are his friends watch his thoughts; if he can be deceived, we shall then prevail over him and take our revenge on him."

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

⁵⁹ And the chief priests and the elders, even the whole Sanhedrim, sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰ but found it not. Though many false witnesses came forward, they did not find it. At last two false witnesses came, ⁶¹ who said, This man said, I can destroy the temple of God and in three days rebuild it.

¹⁴ And if this come to the governor's ears, we will appease him, and secure you. ¹⁵ So they took the money, and did as they were taught. And this is the current report among the Jews even at this day.

¹⁴ And when soldiers asked him, saying, And what shall we do? He said to them, Injure no man, either by violence or false accusation, and be content with your wages.

⁸ Whereupon Zaccheus, standing up, said to the Lord, Behold, Sir, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have wronged any man, I make him fourfold restitution:

¹¹ they suborned men to say, We heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God. ¹² And having stirred up the people and the elders and the Scribes, they came upon him and seized him, and brought him to the Sanhedrim, ¹³ and set up false witnesses, who said, This man is incessantly speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law;

⁸ And will you, [as we are calumniated and as some affirm that we] say, that we should do evil that good may come, you whose condemnation is just?

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away all falsehood, speak truth, every one to his neighbour. Because we are members one of another,

³ void of natural affection, perfidious, false accusers, intemperate, fierce, destitute of love for goodness,

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that when they speak against you as evil doers, they who calumniate your good conversation in Christ may be put to shame.

¹⁰ And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven. "Now is come salvation and the power and reign of our God and the authority of Christ himself; for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, he who accused them before our God day and night;

¹² And God beheld the earth and it was corrupt. Because all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth;

¹ and when he had done so, the Lord God said to Noe, "Go into the ark, thou and all thy family, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.

⁴ But before they went to rest, the men of the city, the Sodomites, surrounded the house, both young and old; all the people in a body.

⁷ And he said to them, You must not brethren, commit such wickedness. ⁸ I have two daughters who have not known man; Let me bring out these to you, and use them as you please; only do no injury to these men in as much as they have come under the shelter of my roof. ⁹ And they said to him, Begone there! Thou camest to sojourn, didst thou also, to be our judge? Now therefore we will treat thee worse than them. And they pressed violently against the man, Lot; and came near to break open the door.

⁶ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of a poor man in the trial of his cause. ⁷ Thou shalt keep aloof from every thing unjust. An innocent and a righteous man thou shalt not slay; nor shalt thou justify a wicked man for the sake of bribes.

¹ [Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, they rose up together against Aaron and said to him; Arise and make for us gods who shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out from the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him. ² Thereupon Aaron said to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters and bring them to me. ³ So all the people took off the gold ear-rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron; ⁴ and he received them at their hands and having made of them a molten bull he fashioned it with a graving tool and said, These are thy gods 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, saying, To-morrow is the festival of the Lord.

¹⁵ you shall not do an unjust thing in the execution of justice: thou shalt not respect the face of the poor, nor revere the face of the mighty. With righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour.

¹ Upon this, all the congregation, raising their voices, shouted aloud, and ² the people wept that whole night. And all the Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, that we had died in the land of Egypt, or even in this wilderness! ³ If we must die, why doth the Lord lead us into that land to fall in battle? Our wives and our children will be for a prey. Now therefore it is better for us to return to Egypt. ⁴ Then they said to one another, Let us appoint a leader, and return to Egypt. ⁵ Upon this Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the children of Israel, ⁶ and Joshua the son of Nave, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, two of them who had viewed the land, rent their clothes, ⁷ and spoke to all the congregation of the Israelites, saying, The land which we viewed is indeed a most excellent land. ⁸ If the Lord delighteth in us, he will lead us to that land, and give it to us. It is a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁹ Only rebel not against the Lord, and you need not be afraid of the people of the land, for they are food for us. For their time is over, and the Lord is with us. Fear them not. ¹⁰ And when all the congregation ordered to stone them with stones, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud, over the tabernacle of the testimony, to all the children of Israel.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not respect a person in judgment. Against the low and the high thou shalt pass sentence, and not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. And if the matter be too hard for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it.

¹⁹ They shall not wrest judgment, nor respect persons, nor shall they receive a gift. For gifts blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge,

¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

⁹ Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and spared the best of the flocks, and the herds, and provisions, and vineyards, and all that was good; and would not destroy them, but destroyed only what was of no estimation or of little value.

¹⁰ To which he replied, I have been very zealous for the Lord Almighty, because the children of Israel hath forsaken thee. They have demolished thy altars and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I alone am left and they seek my life to take it.

³⁴ for I was not so awed by the multitude as not to mention it before them; [Now if I had suffered a poor man to go from my door with an empty lap,

² That he may judge thy people with righteousness; and thy distressed ones with judgment.

¹⁰ My son, let not wicked men lead thee astray. Consent not when they advise thee, ¹¹ saying, Come with us; partake of blood; and let us hide in the earth an innocent man without cause,

¹⁵ Go not thou in the way with them; but turn thy foot from their paths.

¹⁴ Go not in the ways of wicked men; nor be fond of the ways of transgressors.

¹⁵ And the chiefs were enraged at Jeremias and smote him and committed him to the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that a prison.

²¹ Thereupon the king gave orders and they committed him to the guard house and gave him a loaf of bread a day from the bake house until all the bread in the city was spent. So Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.

⁵ And the king said, Behold he is in your hands. For the king could not withstand them. ⁶ So they threw him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son which was in the court of the prison. And when they had lowered him down into the dungeon, there was no water in the dungeon, but there was mire; and he was in the mire.

⁹ Thou hast done wrong in ordering this man to be put to death out of the way of the famine, for there is no bread in the city.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Juda is exceeding great. Because the land is filled with many peoples and the city is filled with iniquity and impurity; and because they said, the Lord hath forsaken this land; the Lord doth not see;

⁴ "Is it indeed time for you to dwell in your cieled houses, whilst this house of ours is lying waste?"

²⁴ When Pilate saw that he could not in the least prevail, but that a tumult rather was rising, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am clear from the blood of this innocent person. Look ye to it. ²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children. ²⁶ Then he released to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up to be crucified.

¹⁵ Thereupon Pilate willing to satisfy the populace, released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him up to be crucified.

²³ But they with loud clamours persisted in their demands that he should be crucified. So the clamours of them and of the chief priests prevailed, ²⁴ and Pilate pronounced sentence that what they requested should be done,

⁵¹ and who had not concurred with the rest in their counsel and proceedings; he was of Arimathea, a city of the Jews, and was one who was expecting the reign of God.

⁵⁰ Nicodemus, he who came to Jesus by night, and who was one of them, said to them, ⁵¹ Doth our law condemn the man without hearing him, and knowing what he hath done?

²⁷ After two years however Felix was succeeded by Portius Festus, and being desirous to ingratiate himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

⁹ Festus willing to gratify the Jews addressed Paul saying, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and be judged there before me concerning these things?

³² Some having recognised God's law, That they who do such things deserve death, not only do the same things themselves, but have even a complacency in them who commit them;

¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch I .opposed him to his face, because he was reprehensible. ¹² For before certain persons came from James, he had eaten with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew, and kept himself apart, being afraid of them who were of the circumcision. ¹³ And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

² [J] How long will you judge unjustly; and respect the persons of sinners? [[J] Jehovah [p] the prophet or psalmist.] ³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy.

¹⁷ Now the wisdom which cometh from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

¹ When thou seest thy brother's ox or sheep going astray, thou must not overlook them. Thou shalt surely bring them back to thy brother, and restore them to him. ² And if thy brother be not near thee, and thou dost not know him; thou shalt take them home to thy house; and they shall be with thee, until thy brother seek them; then thou shalt restore them to thy brother. ³ In like manner thou shalt do with his ass, and in like manner with his raiment, and in like manner with every thing which thy brother hath lost. Whatever hath been lost by him, if thou find it thou must not overlook it. ⁴ When thou seest thy brother's ass, or his ox, fallen in the way, thou must not overlook them; thou shalt help him to lift them up.

²⁹ If I have rejoiced at the downfall of mine enemies, and my heart hath said, Aha! ³⁰ Let mine ear hear myself cursed, and let me be a by-word among the people, when I am afflicted.

¹⁷ If thine enemy fall rejoice not over him; nor be elated at his stumbling: ¹⁸ for the Lord will see and it will displease him, and he will turn away his wrath.

²¹ If thine enemy hunger feed him; if he be thirsty give him drink:

⁴⁴ But I say to you, Love your enemies. Bless them who curse you. Do good to them who hate you: and pray for them who spitefully use you and persecute you;

²⁷ But I charge you, my hearers, Love your enemies. Do good to them who hate you. ²⁸ Bless them who curse you; and pray for them who spitefully abuse you.

¹⁷ Render to none evil for evil. Be provident in regard to things good in the sight of all men. ¹⁸ If possible, that is, as far as in your power, be at peace with all men. ¹⁹ Beloved, avenge not yourselves, but give place to the wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will requite, saith the Lord." ²⁰ Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him; if he be thirsty, give him drink; for by doing so thou wilt use the means to melt him. ²¹ Be not overcome by evil; but overcome evil with good.

¹⁵ see that none return evil for evil to any one; but on all occasions do all the good you can, both to one another and to all men.

⁴ When thou seest thy brother's ass, or his ox, fallen in the way, thou must not overlook them; thou shalt help him to lift them up.

² Thou shalt not be with the majority in wickedness, nor join with the multitude to shut out justice. ³ In passing judgment thou shalt not be influenced by compassion for the needy.

¹⁹ Cursed he who perverteth the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

⁷ Now therefore let the fear of the Lord be upon you. Keep watch and do your duty; for with the Lord our God there is no injustice, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.

¹³ If I have slighted the cause of my man servant or maid servant when they had a controversy with me,

²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support: ²² may my shoulder bone be dislocated, and my arm broken at the elbow.

³ Do justice to the fatherless and the afflicted; Justify the lowly and the needy. ⁴ Rescue the needy and deliver the afflicted out of the sinner's hand.

⁸ If thou seest a frivolous accusation of a poor man, and a rigorous exaction of judgment and justice in a country, marvel not at the matter. Because there is a high one over a high one to watch, and high ones are for these things,

¹ Woe to them who write wickedness! For writers are writing wickedness; ² turning aside the cause of the distressed; robbing the poor of my people, of their right; that the widow

²⁸ and overleaped judgment; they did not administer justice to the orphan, nor decide righteously the cause of the widow;

²⁸ They are all disobedient and walk perversely. Being brass and iron they are all utterly consumed.

⁶ and do not oppress the stranger and orphan and widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place, nor go after strange gods to your hurt:

¹¹ therefore because they have beaten the poor with their fists, though you had received from them choice gifts; you have built houses of hewn stone; but in them you shall not dwell; you have planted lovely vineyards, but you shall not drink the wine thereof. ¹² [p] Because I know your manifold impieties and your sins are mighty: you trample down the righteous, take pledges and turn aside the poor in the gates;

¹ and he will say, "Hear these things ye children of the house of Jacob, and ye remnant of the house of Israel, is it not your business to know judgment? ² As for them who hate good and seek evil, who tear off the skin from these and the flesh from their bones: ³ as they have devoured the flesh of my people and have flayed off their skin from them; and have broken their bones and chopped them up, as flesh for a kettle and as pieces of meat for a pot: ⁴ so they shall cry to the Lord but he will not hearken to them; but will turn away his face from them at that time, because by their devices they have committed evil against these.

¹ [p] Oh! the illustrious and redeemed city! ² This dove hearkened not to a voice. She received not instruction: she trusted not in the Lord; nor did she draw near to her God: ³ her chiefs within her were like roaring lions, and her judges like the Wolves of Arabia. They left nothing for the morning: ⁴ her prophets are enthusiasts, arrogant men: her priests profane the holies and unhallow the law: ⁵ And I will bring to judgment before you and be a swift witness against sorcerers, and against adulteresses, and against them who swear by my name to a falsehood, and against them who deprive the hireling of his wages, and them who oppress the widow, and them who buffet the fatherless, and them who turn aside the cause of the stranger, and them who do not fear me, saith the Lord Almighty.

⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them who love him? ⁶ But you have treated the poor with disdain. Do not the rich domineer over you? Do they not drag you to tribunals?

¹³ Thou shalt not commit adultery.

¹ Thou shalt not countenance an idle report, nor conspire with the unrighteous to be a false witness.

⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

²⁵ Cursed he who taketh bribes to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

²³ If thou wilt return and humble thyself before the Lord, having removed iniquity far from thy dwelling,

¹⁴ Go not in the ways of wicked men; nor be fond of the ways of transgressors. ¹⁵ In what place soever they encamp, go not thither: but turn away from them and keep at a distance:

¹⁵ He who acquitteth the wicked and condemneth the just, is unclean and abominable in the sight of God.

¹⁵ He who is walking in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes; who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice:

³ [a] The Lord is slow to anger, though his power is great; will not the Lord then acquit the innocent? Is his way in destruction and whirlwind, when clouds are the dust of his feet? [[a] An objection, [b] The answer]

¹⁸ for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of the men, who by unrighteousness repress truth.

⁵ Indeed according to this obduracy, and impenitent heart of thine thou art treasuring up for thyself wrath against a day of the wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, ⁶ who will render to every one according to his works

²² Abstain from every appearance of evil.

¹⁷ For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords; the God, great, and mighty, and awful. He respecteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe.

³ But his sons did not walk in his way. They turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

³ Here I am. Bring your complaints against me before the Lord, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom among you have I oppressed? or whom have I aggrieved? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even to a shoe latchet? Witness against me, and I will make you restitution.

¹⁰ in whose hands are iniquities; and whose right hand is full of bribes.

²⁷ He who receiveth bribes destroyeth himself: but he who hateth the receiving of bribes is safe. By acts of kindness and faithfulness sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one will decline from evil.

⁸ Instruction is a precious reward to them who use it: and whithersoever it turneth it will prosper.

²³ When one unrighteously receiveth gifts in his bosom; his ways will not be straight. But a wicked man perverteth the ways of justice.

⁴ Wealth maketh many friends; but a poor man is forsaken by the only friend he hath.

⁷ Because oppression distracteth a wise man and destroyeth his good disposition, the final sentence is better than such a government.

¹³ Though you bring fine flour; it is a vain incense: it is an abomination to me. Your new moons and sabbaths and great day I cannot endure:

²³ who justify the wicked for rewards; and deprive the just of his right.

¹² In thee they received bribes to shed blood. In thee they took interest and usury, and thou hast completed thy wickedness by oppression. And me thou hast forgotten, saith the Lord.

¹⁸ They addicted themselves to the Chananites; they went on in a continued course of whoredom; they loved dishonour because of its revelry;

¹² [p] Because I know your manifold impieties and your sins are mighty: you trample down the righteous, take pledges and turn aside the poor in the gates;

³ they are preparing their hands for evil. The chief asketh and the judge hath spoken words of peace! He is entirely at his devotion;

²¹ but if the servant live a day or two, let no vengeance be taken, for he is his money.

²¹ A stranger you shall not injure; nor shall you afflict him; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ Love ye therefore the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ Thou shalt not withhold the wages of a poor and needy man, whether he be one of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities. ¹⁵ Thou shalt pay him his wages on the very day: let not the sun set upon it. For he is poor, and dependeth on it; and he will cry to the Lord against thee, and it will be a sin in thee. ¹⁶ Fathers shall not be put to death for children; nor the children for fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin. ¹⁷ Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or the orphan, or the widow. Thou shalt not take the garment of a widow in pledge, ¹⁸ but remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that thence the Lord thy God redeemed thee; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

⁶ They have slain the widow and orphan: they have murdered the stranger,

⁷ In thee they reviled father and mother; and in thee practised injustice against the stranger. They oppressed the widow and the orphan;

³³ shouldst thou not then have had compassion on thy fellow servant as I had on thee?

¹⁷ whence it behoved him to be made like his brethren in all things; that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people. ¹⁸ For by what he himself suffered when he was tried he can help them who are tried.

³ Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof. ⁴ But in the seventh year there shall be sabbaths; there shall be a rest for the land; sabbaths for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard,

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, the land which I give you must rest sabbaths for the Lord. ³ Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof. ⁴ But in the seventh year there shall be sabbaths; there shall be a rest for the land; sabbaths for the Lord. Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard, ⁵ nor reap the spontaneous productions of thy field, nor gather the grapes of thy dedication. It shall be a year of rest for the land. ⁶ And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man servant, and for thy maid servant, and for thy hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourneth with thee; ⁷ and for thy cattle, and the wild beasts in thy land, shall the whole product thereof be for food.

¹¹ This jubilee, this fiftieth year, shall be for you a general release, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the spontaneous productions thereof, nor gather the vintage which is dedicated. ¹² Because it is a jubilee, it shall be holy to you. From the fields you may eat the productions thereof.

²⁰ Now if you should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we neither sow nor gather our produce?

²² Though you are to sow in the eighth year, yet on account of the produce, you shall eat the old, even to the ninth year, even till the products of that come in, you shall eat of the old store.

³⁴ And the land shall then enjoy its sabbaths all the time of its desolation. When you shall be in the land of your enemies, the land shall then rest; and the land shall keep those sabbaths, ³⁵ which it did not keep by your sabbaths when you dwelt therein.

⁸ Remember the day of the sabbaths to hallow it. ⁹ Six days labour and do all thy works; ¹⁰ but on the seventh day are sabbaths to the Lord thy God; On it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger who sojourneth with thee; ¹¹ for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.

¹⁵ Six days thou shalt perform works, but on the seventh day are the sabbaths, a rest holy to the Lord. Whoever shall do any work on the seventh day shall be put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbaths and cause them to be kept throughout their generations. It is an everlasting covenant between me and the children of Israel.

²¹ Six days perform works, but on the seventh thou shalt rest. In seeding time and harvest it shall be a rest.

³ You shall not kindle a fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day. I am the Lord.

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.

³ Saying, "Why have we fasted and thou hast not seen? We have humbled our souls and thou hast not known." In the very days of your fasts you enjoy your own pleasures and goad all them who are under your controul.

¹⁴ Upon which the ruler of the synagogue, to express his indignation because Jesus cured on the sabbath day, addressed the people and said, There are six days on which work should be done: come therefore on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.

³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names.

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,

¹⁵ Therefore watch your souls with diligence; for you saw no similitude on the day when the Lord spoke to you at Choreb, in the mount, out of the midst of the fire;

³ You shall level their mounts, and break in pieces their pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn the graven images of their gods with fire, so that their name may be destroyed out of that place.

⁵ But be very careful to perform the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you to do, to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him and serve him with your whole heart, and with your whole soul.

⁷ That you may have no fellowship with those nations which are left, the names of their gods must not be mentioned among you; nor shall you perform religious service to them, nor worship them;

¹¹ Therefore take good heed to love the Lord our God.

⁷ and I will establish his kingdom forever, provided he exert his power to keep my commandments and my judgments as at this day. ⁸ Now therefore, in the presence of all the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, I adjure you to keep and to seek all the commandments of the Lord our God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you forever. ⁹ And now, Solomon, my son, know thou the God of thy fathers, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts and knoweth every thought. If thou seek him, he will be found by thee; but if thou forsake him, he will at last forsake thee.

⁴ Their infirmities were multiplied: after these hallowed things they hastened. I will no more assemble their congregations for blood, nor make mention of their names with my lips.

¹ For the conclusion. For Idithun. An Ode by David. I Said, Let me watch my ways; that I may not sin with my tongue. I set a guard on my mouth; when the sinner stood before me.

¹¹ Thus shall you say to them. Let the gods, which have not made heaven and earth, perish from the earth and from under heaven.

¹⁷ I will indeed take away the names of the Baalims out of her mouth, and their names shall no more be mentioned.

² And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land; and there shall no more be a remembrance of them. And I will remove the false prophets and the unclean spirit out of the land.

¹² for as to the things done by them in secret, it is shameful even to mention them.

¹⁵ Take heed therefore how circumspectly you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

¹⁶ take heed to thyself and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for by doing this thou wilt save thyself and them who hearken to thee.

¹⁵ watching diligently that none fall short of the favour of God"that no root of bitterness spring up and occasion trouble, and many be defiled by it

¹⁷ Three times a year all thy males must appear before the Lord thy God;

²² The festival of weeks thou shalt celebrate for me at the beginning of the reaping of wheat; and the festival of the ingathering in the middle of the year. ²³ Three times a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord the God of Israel. ²⁴ For when I shall have driven out the nations from before thee and enlarged thy borders, none shall covet thy land, when thou comest up to appear before the Lord thy God three times a year.

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover for the Lord.

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.

³⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days for the Lord.

¹⁶ every male shall, three times in the year, appear before the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; at the festival of unleavened bread, and at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of tabernacles. Thou shalt not appear before the Lord thy God empty handed.

¹⁴ And that day shall be to you for a memorial. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord throughout all your generations. As an everlasting ordinance you shall celebrate it. ¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. And from the first day you shall remove all leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel. ¹⁶ And with regard to the first day, it shall be proclaimed holy; and the seventh day shall be holy to you. In them you shall not do any kind of sacrificial service, save that which must be done for every soul. This alone shall be done for you ¹⁷ and you shall keep this commandment. For on that day I will lead out your host from the land of Egypt; therefore you shall make the observance of that day an everlasting rite to your generations. ¹⁸ Beginning at evening with the fourteenth day of the first month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty first day. ¹⁹ For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. Whoever shall eat leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation of Israel; whether he be a stranger or born in the land. ²⁰ You shall eat nothing that is leavened. But in all your habitations you must eat unleavened bread. ²¹ Moses therefore convened the whole senate of the children of Israel and said to them, Go take for yourselves the sheep according to your families and kill the passover; ²² and ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and having dipped it in the blood by the door you shall smear the lintel and the two side posts with some of the blood which is at the door; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ²³ For the Lord will pass by to smite the Egyptians; and when he shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to smite. ²⁴ And this ordinance you shall keep as a rite established for thee and thy children for ever. ²⁵ And when you come to the land which the Lord will give you as he hath spoken, you must keep up this religious service. ²⁶ And if your children say to you, What is the meaning of this religious service? ²⁷ then you shall say to them, It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the Lord; because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Upon which the people bowed down and worshipped; ²⁸ and the Israelites went and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

⁴³ the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover; No stranger shall eat of it; ⁴⁴ but every servant born at home or bought with money thou shalt circumcise and then he may eat of it. ⁴⁵ A sojourner or a hireling shall not eat of it. ⁴⁶ In one family it shall be eaten, and you must not carry any of the flesh abroad out of the house; nor shall you break a bone thereof. ⁴⁷ All the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep this festival. ⁴⁸ And if any proselyte come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise all his males and then he may come and keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ⁴⁹ There shall be one law for the home born and for the proselyte who shall come among you.

⁴ for on this day you are marching out in the month of new things.

⁶ Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the Lord. ⁷ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee; nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.

¹⁸ The festival of unleavened bread thou shalt keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread as I commanded thee at the set time in the month of new things; for in the month of new things thou didst come out of Egypt.

²⁰ but the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a sheep; and if thou wilt not redeem it with that thou shalt pay the worth of it. Every first born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. Thou shalt not appear before me empty.

⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover for the Lord. ⁶ And on the fifteenth day of this month beginneth the festival of unleavened bread for the Lord. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ Now the first day shall be a holy, set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service, ⁸ but offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord seven days, and the seventh day shall be a holy set day for you. You shall do no sacrificial service.

¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest,

² Give orders, and let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. ³ On the fourteenth day of this first month, towards evening, thou shalt celebrate it in its season. According to its rites, and according to its institution, thou shalt celebrate it. ⁴ Accordingly Moses spoke to the children of Israel to keep the passover ⁵ on the fourteenth day of the first month, in the wilderness of Sina. And when the children of Israel were doing as the Lord commanded Moses, ⁶ there were some men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, and could not keep the passover; so these men came to Moses and Aaron on that day, ⁷ and said to them, We are defiled by the dead body of a man, must we therefore be deprived of the opportunity of offering our gift to the Lord, in its appointed season, among the children of Israel: ⁸ whereupon Moses said to them, Stand here; and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you. ⁹ Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, If any man among you, or among your posterity, happen to be defiled by the dead, or be on a far distant journey, he shall keep the passover to the Lord ¹¹ in the second month. On the fourteenth day they shall keep it towards evening. They shall eat it with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs; ¹² they shall not leave any of it till the morning; nor shall they break a bone of it. They shall keep it according to the ritual of the passover. ¹³ And if any man be clean, and not on a distant journey, and fail to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from among his people; because he did not offer this gift to the Lord, in its appointed time, such a man shall bear his sin. ¹⁴ And if there come to you a proselyte in your land, and he chuse to keep the passover to the Lord, he must keep it according to its ritual, and according to its institution. You shall have one law for the proselyte and for him born in the land.

¹⁶ And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be the passover to the Lord, ¹⁷ and on the fifteenth day of the month shall commence the festival thereof. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ¹⁸ Now, this first day shall be solemnly set apart for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service; ¹⁹ but you shall bring for whole burnt offerings; for an offering of homage to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs of the first year. You must see that they are without blemish. ²⁰ And their sacrifice shall be fine flour, mixed up with oil, three tenths for each bull, and two tent! is for the ram, ²¹ and thou shalt prepare a tenth for every one of the seven lambs; ²² and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; ²³ over and above the whole burnt offering which is to be made every morning, and which is a continual whole burnt offering. ²⁴ After this manner you shall make daily offerings, during the seven days, as a gift; an offering of homage, for a smell of fragrance, to the Lord: Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, thou shalt offer it with its libation. ²⁵ And the seventh of these days shall be solemnly set apart for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work.

¹ Observe the month of New things, and keep the passover to the Lord thy God, because in the month of New things thou didst come out of the land of Egypt, by night. ² And at the passover thou shalt sacrifice to the Lord thy God, sheep, and kine, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked. ³ At it thou shalt not eat leaven. Seven days, at it, thou shalt eat unleavened bread; the bread of affliction, because you came in haste out of Egypt, that you may remember the day of your coming out of the land of Egypt, all the days of your life. ⁴ No leaven shall be seen in all thy borders for seven days, and none of the flesh of that which you shall sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall be left till the morning. ⁵ Thou shalt not be at liberty to keep the passover in any of the cities which the Lord thy God giveth thee, ⁶ but only in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse, for his name to be there invoked. Thou shalt kill the passover in the evening, at the setting of the sun, in the season thou didst come out of Egypt. ⁷ And when thou hast cooked, and roasted, and eaten it, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen, in the morning thou mayst return and go home. ⁸ Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be the Exod; a festival to the Lord thy God. On it thou shalt not do any work, but what is necessary for life.

¹⁰ And on the fourteenth of the same month, towards evening, the children of Israel pre 11 pared the passover, on the confines of Jericho, in the plain of Jordan, ¹¹ and ate of the corn of the land, unleavened cakes and parched corn. On that very day,

²¹ Then the king issued orders to all the people, saying, Celebrate the passover to the Lord our God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. ²² For from the days of the Judges who judged Israel, there had not been during all the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Juda, ²³ such a passover as this which was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem in the eighteenth year of Josias.

⁹ Honour the Lord with some of thy righteous labours: and set apart for him some of thy fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that thy barns may be plenteously filled with corn; and that thy vats may overflow with wine.

¹² And on the first day of the festival of unleavened bread, the day when the paschal lamb was to be killed, his disciples said to him, Where wouldst thou have us go and prepare for thine eating the paschal lamb.

⁷ Now when the day of unleavened bread was come, on which the paschal lamb was to be killed,

⁷ Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new mass as you are unleavened. For Christ our Paschal lamb is indeed slain for us, ⁸ so that we should keep the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

²⁹ The first fruits of thy threshing floor and of thy press thou shalt not withhold. The first born of thy sons thou shalt give to me.

²² The festival of weeks thou shalt celebrate for me at the beginning of the reaping of wheat; and the festival of the ingathering in the middle of the year.

⁹ Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest, ¹¹ and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you; On the morrow after the first day, the priest shall offer this up. ¹² And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, ¹³ and for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord; and for the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine. ¹⁴ You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains, of the new corn, till this day; until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings, ¹⁵ That from the morrow of these sabbaths; from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, 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. ¹⁹ They shall also prepare one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year, for a sacrifice of thanksgiving, with the loaves of the first fruits. ²⁰ And the priest shall dedicate these, with the loaves of the first fruits, as a dedication before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be dedicated to the Lord; they shall be for the priest who offereth them. ²¹ And you shall call this day, a set day. It shall be hallowed for you. On it you shall do no sacrificial work. It is an everlasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

³⁴ Speak to the children of Israel, and say, On the fifteenth of this seventh month shall commence the festival of Tabernacles, seven days for the Lord. ³⁵ The first day shall be proclaimed holy. You shall do no sacrificial work; ³⁶ seven days you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and the eighth day shall be proclaimed holy for you, and you shall offer whole burnt offerings to the Lord. It is the exit. You shall not do any sacrificial service. ³⁷ These are the festivals for the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, in order that you may offer homage offerings to the Lord; whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations; that allotted for each day on its day, ³⁸ over and above the sabbaths of the Lord, and over and above your gifts, even besides all your vows, and besides your free will offerings, which you may give to the Lord. ³⁹ Now on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, when you have finished the ingathering of the products of the land, you shall begin this festival of seven days for the Lord. On the first day there shall be a rest; and on the eighth day, a rest. ⁴⁰ And on the first day you shall take the ripe fruit of trees, and branches of palm trees, and bushy boughs of trees and willows, and branches of the willow of the brook, to rejoice before the Lord your God seven days of the year. ⁴¹ It shall be an everlasting statute for your generations. In the seventh month you shall celebrate this festival. ⁴² You shall dwell in booths seven days. All that are Israelites born, shall dwell in booths, ⁴³ that your posterity may see that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in tents when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. ⁴⁴ And when Moses had mentioned these festivals of the Lord to the Israelites,

²⁶ And on the day of new things when you bring for the Lord the new sacrifice of the weeks, there shall be a solemn festival for you. You shall not do any kind of sacrificial service; ²⁷ but you shall bring, as whole burnt offerings, for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, two young bulls from the herd, one ram, seven lambs, of the first year, without blemish, ²⁸ with their sacrifice of fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for each bull, and two tenths for the ram, ²⁹ and one tenth for every of the seven lambs; ³⁰ and one kid of the goats, for a sin offering, to make atonement for you. ³¹ Over and above the continual whole burnt offering, you shall offer me the sacrifice of these [and see that they be without blemish] together with the libations thereof.

¹² And on the fifteenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a solemn festival set apart for you. You shall do no sacrificial work. And you shall celebrate this festival to the Lord seven days. ¹³ And you shall bring, for whole burnt offerings; for an offering of homage; for a smell of fragrance to the Lord, on the first day, thirteen young bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, [they shall be without blemish] ¹⁴ with their sacrifices; fine flour mixed up with oil; three tenths for every one of the thirteen bulls, and two tenths for each of the two rams, ¹⁵ and one tenth for every one of the fourteen lambs; ¹⁶ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings with their sacrifices and their libations. ¹⁷ And on the second day, twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ¹⁸ with their sacrifice and their libation, for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to their number agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ¹⁹ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁰ And on the third day, eleven young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²¹ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, according to their number, agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²² and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²³ And on the fourth day, ten young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²⁴ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²⁵ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁶ And on the fifth day, nine young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ²⁷ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ²⁸ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ²⁹ And on the sixth day, eight young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³⁰ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls, and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³¹ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ³² And on the seventh day, seven young bulls; two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³³ with their sacrifices and their libations; for the bulls and the rams, and the lambs, according to the number of them agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³⁴ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ³⁵ And on the eighth day, you shall close the festival. On that day you shall not do any kind of sacrificial work. ³⁶ But you shall bring for whole burnt offerings; for a smell of fragrance; for offerings of homage to the Lord, one young bull, one ram, seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, ³⁷ with their sacrifices and their libations, for the bull, and the ram, and the lambs, according to the number of them, agreeably to what is prescribed for them; ³⁸ and a kid of the goats for a sin offering, over and above the continual whole burnt offerings, with their sacrifices and their libations. ³⁹ These you shall offer to the Lord at your festivals, over and above your vows, and your free will offerings, and your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your libations, and your offerings of thanksgiving.

⁹ Seven weeks thou shalt number for thyself; from thy first beginning to put the sickle to the harvest thou shalt begin to number the seven weeks. ¹⁰ And thou shalt keep the festival of weeks, to the Lord thy God, according to the ability of thy hand; according to what the Lord thy God may have given thee. ¹¹ And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow who is among you, in the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse for his name to be there invoked. ¹² And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt; therefore thou shalt keep, and perform, these commandments. ¹³ The feast of tabernacles thou shalt keep for thyself seven days. When thou hast gathered in from thy threshing floor, and from thy press, ¹⁴ thou shalt rejoice at this thy festival, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, and thy maid servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who is in thy cities. ¹⁵ Seven days thou shalt celebrate this festival to the Lord thy God, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for himself. So when the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy productions, and in all the works of thy hands, and thou shalt be made glad,

¹⁴ they found it written in the law which the Lord had given in charge to Moses, That the Israelites should dwell in booths at the festival in the seventh month, ¹⁵ and that they should sound trumpets in all their cities and in Jerusalem. Whereupon Esdras said, Go out to the mountains and bring in olive branches, and branches of cypress trees and myrtle branches and palm branches, and the branches of every bushy tree to make booths according to what is written. ¹⁶ Accordingly the people went out and brought them, and made for themselves booths, every man on his house top, and in their court yards, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the streets of the city, even to the gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ And when all the congregation; all who had returned from captivity, had made themselves booths and sat therein, because the Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua son of Nave even to that day, the joy was great. ¹⁸ So he read in the book of the law of God, day by day, from the first day to the last. And when they had kept the festival for seven days, on the eighth day they kept the exod according to custom.

¹⁶ And it shall come to pass that all who are left of the nations which came against Jerusalem shall come up every year to worship the Lord Almighty and to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall not come up to Jerusalem from all the tribes of this land, to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even they shall be added to those. ¹⁸ But if the tribe of Egypt go not up nor come; upon them shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the nations which come not up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles. ¹⁹ This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations which decline to come up to celebrate the festival of tabernacles.

² Now the Jews festival of tabernacles was near,

³⁷ It being now the last the great day of the festival, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

¹ Now when the day of pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in the same place.

¹⁴ Three times a year you shall keep a festival to me;

²³ Three times a year all thy males shall appear before the Lord the God of Israel.

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked;

¹¹ when all Israel assemble, to appear before the Lord your God, in the place which the Lord shall chuse; you shall read this law before all Israel, in their hearing.

⁷ They shall go on from strength to strength: the God of Gods will be seen in Sion.

⁴² So when he was twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the festival,

⁸ And that night they shall eat the flesh roasted with fire. They shall also eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs.

¹⁰ Nothing of it shall be left till the morning. And you shall not break a bone of it. And what is left of it till the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. And from the first day you shall remove all leaven out of your houses. Whoever shall eat leaven from the first to the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from among Israel.

²⁵ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my burnt offerings with leaven, nor shall the victims of the passover festival remain till the morning.

¹¹ Every sacrifice which you bring to the Lord, you shall prepare without leaven; for you must not bring any kind of leaven, not even honey, as a gift to pay homage to the Lord.

¹² If one offereth it for praise, he shall bring with the sacrifice of praise loaves of fine flour make up with oil, and unleavened cakes anointed with oil, and fine flour tempered with oil.

¹⁵ And the flesh of the victim of praise and thanksgiving shall be for himself, and shall be eaten on the day it is offered. They shall not leave any of it till the morning.

⁴ No leaven shall be seen in all thy borders for seven days, and none of the flesh of that which you shall sacrifice on the evening of the first day shall be left till the morning.

²⁶ The first fruits of thy land thou shalt lay by for the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in the milk of its dam.

¹⁰ Speak to the 10 children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give you, and are about to reap the harvest thereof, you shall bring a sheaf, as the first fruits of your harvest, to the priest, ¹¹ and he shall offer up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you; On the morrow after the first day, the priest shall offer this up. ¹² And on the day when you bring the sheaf, you shall prepare a lamb without blemish of the first year, for a whole burnt offering for the Lord, ¹³ and for the sacrifice thereof, two tenths of fine flour, made up with oil for the Lord, a smell of fragrance for the Lord; and for the libation thereof, the fourth of an hin of wine. ¹⁴ You shall not eat bread, nor parched grains, of the new corn, till this day; until you have offered these gifts to your God. It is an everlasting statute for your generations, in all your dwellings, ¹⁵ That from the morrow of these sabbaths; from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, 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,

¹² Every dedication of oil, and every dedication of wine, every dedication of food of all kinds which they give to the Lord, these I have given to thee. ¹³ All the first fruits in their land, which they bring for the Lord, shall belong to thee. Every one in thy house, who is clean, may eat these.

⁵ but you shall seek out and come to the place, which the Lord thy God shall make choice of, in one of your cities, to put his name there, and to be invoked; ⁶ and to that place you shall bring your whole burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your oblations, and your vows, and your free will offerings, and your thank offerings, and the firstlings of your herds, and flocks; ⁷ and you shall eat there before the Lord your God, and rejoice with your households, for all your possessions, and the labours of your hands, as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

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.

² thou shalt take some of the first fruits of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and put them in a basket, and go to the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen for his name to be there invoked;

¹⁰ Now therefore, behold, I have brought this offering of the products of the land, which thou, Lord, hast given me; a land flowing with milk and honey. Then thou shalt leave it before the Lord thy God; and when thou hast worshipped before the Lord thy God,

³⁵ and that we will bring the first fruits of our land, and the first fruits of every fruit tree yearly to the house of the Lord, and do,

¹⁰ A righteous man regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the mercies of the wicked are cruel.

³ because the ordinances of the nations are vain. Timber is cut from the forest:

²⁰ But now Christ hath been raised from the dead. He was the first fruits of them who have been composed to rest.

⁴ These are they who were not defiled with women, for they are pure as virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men; first fruits for God and the Lamb.

¹⁸ On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, "To thy seed I will give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river Euphrates,

¹⁶ the Angel who delivered me from all evils, bless these children! And let them be called by my name and by the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaak; and may they be increased to a great multitude on the earth!

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, ³ Moses said, I will go near and see this great sight; why the bush is not consumed. 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? ⁵ And he said, Approach not hither. Loose the sandals from thy feet; for the place where thou standest is holy ground. ⁶ Then he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob. Whereupon Moses turned away his face; for he was afraid to look forward in the presence of God.

¹⁹ Now the Angel of the Lord who marched before the camp of the Israelites had removed and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud had removed from the front and taken its station in the rear.

¹⁷ Introduce and plant them on the mount of thy heritage in the settlement thou hast prepared for thy dwelling, Lord; The sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands have prepared.

³⁴ Now therefore go thy way; go down and lead this people to the place which I commanded thee. Behold my angel will go before thee but on the day when I visit I will bring upon them this sin of theirs.

² And I will send my angel before thee and he will drive out the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite and the Chananite.

¹⁴ And he said, Must I myself go before thee and give thee rest?

¹⁶ we cried to the Lord, and the Lord hearkened to our voice; and having sent a messenger he hath brought us out of Egypt, and we are now at Kades, a city on the extremity of thy borders.

¹³ Now when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes, and saw a man standing before him, with a drawn sword in his hand, upon which Joshua, advancing, said to him, Art thou one of us or of our enemies?

² Then the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver into thy hand, Jericho, and the king thereof, who is in it, and the mighty men of valour.

¹¹ For he will give his angels a charge concerning thee; to keep thee in all thy ways;

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.

¹ Behold I am about to send my messenger and he will examine the way before me. And the Lord whom ye seek; even the angel of the covenant whom you desire will come suddenly to his temple. Behold he is coming, saith the Lord Almighty.

³⁴ Then the king will say to them on his right, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which hath been prepared for you from the formation of the world:

³ Now when I have gone and prepared a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

⁹ nor let us try the Christ as some indeed of them did, and were destroyed by serpents: ¹⁰ nor murmur ye, as some of them murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer.

¹⁴ On which God spoke to Moses saying, I am The I Am. Moreover he said, Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel, The I Am hath sent me to you.

³ and I appeared to Abraham and to Isaak and to Jacob as their God. Though I did not clearly manifest to them my name Lord,

⁵ and the Lord descended in a cloud and stood by him there and called in the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, The Lord, the God compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness and mercy for thousands, taking away transgressions, iniquities and sins, will by no means clear the guilty, when he bringeth the transgressions of fathers on children and children s children to the third and fourth generation.

¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, How long shall this people provoke me? And how long will they disbelieve me, notwithstanding all the miracles which I have done among them?

³⁵ I the Lord have spoken. In this manner I will assuredly deal with this wicked congregation, which hath risen up against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die,

¹⁹ and whosoever will not hearken to what that prophet shall speak in my name, I will execute vengeance on him.

¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You may not be able to serve the Lord, because he is the Holy God, and will be zealous. He will not bear with your sins and your iniquities.

¹² Keep fast hold of instruction; the Lord may be angry and you may perish out of the right way. When his anger suddenly blazeth forth, happy are all they who have trusted in him.

¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever and ever: and let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen. Amen.

⁴⁰ How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and excite him to anger in the desert?

⁵⁶ Still they tempted and provoked God the Most High, and did not keep his testimonies;

¹⁸ and let them know that thy name is the Lord; that thou alone art the Most High over all the earth.

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and he shall be called Emmanuel.

⁶ because for us a child is born, and to us a son is given, whose government is on his own shoulder; and his name is called, "The Messenger of Great Counsel." For I will bring peace on the rulers and health for him.

⁸ I am the Lord God; this is my name: this glory of mine I will not give to another, nor these powers of mine to the graven idols.

⁶ that they from the risings of the sun and they from its goings down may know, that there is no God besides me. I the Lord am God and there is none else.

¹⁵ Thus saith the Most High, who on earth inhabiteth eternity, who is Holy among holies; whose name is THE MOST HIGH; who at rest in the holies giveth patience to the humble, and life to them who are of a contrite heart;

⁷ for which of these can I be merciful to thee? Thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by things which are no Gods. When I fed them plentifully, they committed adultery, and revelled in the houses of harlots.

⁶ In his days Juda shall be saved and Israel shall dwell securely. And the name which the Lord will give him by the prophets shall be Josedek [Lord of righteousness.]

²³ "The virgin shall conceive and bear a son and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel," the meaning of which is, God with us:

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.

²³ that all may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son, doth not honour the Father, who sent him.

³⁰ I and my father are one.

³⁸ But if I do; though you do not believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the father is in me, and I in him.

⁹ Jesus saith to him, Am I so long a time with you, and hast thou not known me, Philip? He who hath seen me hath seen the Father: how then sayest thou, Shew us the Father? ¹⁰ Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words which I speak to you, I do not speak from myself. And it is the Father himself abiding in me who doth the works.

³⁰ And grieve not the holy spirit of God by which you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

⁹ Because all the plenitude of the deity resideth substantially in him, 10 therefore you are complete in him who is the head of all principality and power;

¹⁰ For which cause I was incensed with that generation; And said, They do always err with the heart, And have not known my ways: ¹¹ So in mine indignation I solemnly said, "They shall not enter into my rest."

¹⁶ For some hearers provoked him; but did they not all come out of Egypt by Moses?

²⁶ For if we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more any sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ²⁸ Whoever hath set at naught the law of Moses dieth without mercy, on the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ Of how much greater punishment, think ye, will he be thought worthy, who hath trampled upon the Son of God, and accounted the blood of the covenant, by which he was sanctified, a common thing, and treated contemptuously the spirit of grace?

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,

¹⁶ If any one see his brother committing a sin not unto death, let him ask, and he will give him life for them who do not sin unto death: there is a sin unto death, with respect to this I do not say that he should make petition.

⁸ "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end," saith the Lord, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty."

⁸ "And to the angel of the congregation at Smyrna write, "Thus saith the first and the last, who was dead and is alive,

²³ and I will slay her children with death; and all the congregations shall know, that I am the searcher of reins and hearts, and will give to every one of you according to your works.

⁷ And to the angel of the congregation at Philadelphia write thus saith the Holy one and the True, who hath the key [the Son] of David, who openeth and none shutteth, and who shutteth and none openeth,

³ and I will bless them, who bless thee; and those who curse thee I will curse: and by thee all the tribes of the earth shalt be blessed.

⁹ Couching down, he is gone to rest, like a lion; Yes like a young lion; who dare rouse him? Blessed are they who bless thee, And they who curse thee are already cursed.

⁷ And the Lord thy God will lay all these curses upon thine enemies, and upon them who hate thee, and have persecuted thee.

²⁰ And their sons shall come in as in former times; and their judicatories shall be established in my presence. And I will punish them who afflict them.

⁸ for thus saith the Lord Almighty. He behind glory hath sent me against the nations which plundered you: for he who toucheth you, is like one touching the apple of his eye.

⁴ And having fallen on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, Why persecutes! thou me?" ⁵ And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom thou art persecuting. It is hurting thyself to kick against sharp pointed goads."

¹⁹ the Kenites and the Kenezites, and the Kedmonites ²⁰ and the Chettites and the Pherezites and the Raphaeims ²¹ and the Amorites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Gergesites and the Jebusites.

² And Sychem the son of Emmor the Evite, who was the prince of the country, saw her and took her and lay with her and humbled her.

¹⁷ Moreover he said, I will bring you up from the oppression of the Egyptians to the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites and the Pherezites, and the Gergasites and the Evites and the Jebusites; to a land flowing with milk and honey,

²⁰ Now behold I send my angel before thy face, that he may guard thee in the way, and bring thee to the land, which I have prepared for thee.

² Thereupon Aaron said to them, Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives and daughters and bring them to me.

⁸ he brought us to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan; and the Lord delivered them into our hands, and you took possession of their land, and extirpated them from before you. ⁹ And when Balak, son of Sepphor, king of Moab, arose and drew up in array against Israel, and sent for Balaam to curse us, ¹⁰ the Lord thy God would not destroy thee, nay he caused him to bless us with blessings, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them up. ¹¹ And when you crossed the Jordan, and came to Jericho, and the Amorites who inhabited Jericho, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Chettites, and the Gergasites, fought against us, the Lord delivered them into our hands.

¹³ Therefore my people are become captives, because they did not know the Lord; and multitudes have died of famine and thirst;

⁵ thou shalt not worship them; nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a zealous God, retributing to them who hate me the sins of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation;

²⁰ And taking the bull which they had made he burned it with fire and grinded it fine and strewed it in the water and made the Israelites drink it.

¹³ Their altars you shall demolish: their pillars you shall break to pieces; and their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. ¹⁴ For you must not worship other gods; for the Lord God, a zealous name, is a zealous God.

³ you shall not do according to the customs of Egypt, in which you sojourned; nor shall you do according to the customs of the land of Chanaan, to which I am leading you; you shall not walk by their ordinances.

²⁶ You therefore shall keep all my institutions and all my ordinances; and none of you, neither the native, nor the proselyte who dwelleth among you, ²⁷ shall commit any of these abominations, which the men of the country who were before you have committed, and by which the land hath been polluted; ²⁸ that the land may not become a mortal enemy to you when you pollute it; as it hath been to those nations which were before you. ²⁹ For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons who shall commit them shall be cut off from among their people ³⁰ Therefore you shall keep my ordinances that you may not practise any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you. You shall not pollute yourselves with them; for I the Lord am your God.

⁵² You shall destroy all those who dwell in that land, from before you, and demolish their obelisks, and utterly destroy their molten images, and all their pillars you shall demolish. And when you have destroyed all the inhabitants of that land,

⁵ But in this manner thou shalt deal with them" their altars you shall destroy; their pillars you shall break to pieces; their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire.

²⁵ The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Thou shalt not covet the silver nor the gold thereof. Thou shalt not take any of it for thyself, lest thou be ensnared by it. Because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God, ²⁶ therefore thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house; for thou wilt be an Anathema as well as it. Thou shalt utterly detest it, and hold it in utter abomination; for it is an Anathema, [a devoted thing.]

³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are driven out from before thee, saying, How did these nations sacrifice to their gods? I will sacrifice in like manner. ³¹ Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord, which he hated; for they burned their sons, and their daughters, with fire, to their gods.

² and did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominable acts of the nations which the Lord had rooted out from before the children of Israel.

⁹ Now when Manasses had caused Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, and to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord had destroyed from before the children of Israel;

³ In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek the Lord the God of his father David. And in the twelfth year of his reign, he began to cleanse Juda and Jerusalem, from the high places and the bowers, and from their processions around altars, and from the molten images. ⁴ And having caused to be torn down in his presence, the altars of the Baalims, and the high things which were on them, he cut down the bowers, and broke in pieces the graven and the molten images. And having beaten them to dust, he strewed it over the graves of them who had sacrificed to them, ⁵ and burned the bones of the priests on the altars. And when he had cleansed Juda and Jerusalem, ⁶ he proceeded on through the cities of Manasses, and Ephraim, and Symeon, and Nephthaleim, and the places around them, ⁷ and tore down the altars, and the bowers, and chopped to pieces the idols. And having demolished all the high places in all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

³ I have not set any wicked thing before mine eyes: them who commit transgressions I detested.

³⁵ but mingled with those nations; and learned their works. ³⁶ And served their graven images which became to them a stumbling block. ³⁷ They actually sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons: ³⁸ and shed innocent blood; the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the graven idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood and

⁴⁷ But thou hast not walked even in their ways, nor done according to their transgressions in a small degree. Thou hast surpassed them in all thy ways.

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.

¹³ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him alone, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the offspring of thy womb, and the product of thy land; thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, thy herds of cattle, and thy flocks of sheep, in the land which he, with an oath, promised thy fathers to give thee.

¹⁵ And the Lord will remove from thee every malady, and will not lay upon thee any of the sore diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen, which thou hast known: but will lay them upon all that hate thee.

¹² Now therefore, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul;

²⁰ Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and cleave to him, and swear by his name.

¹³ And if you will hearken diligently to all the commands which I this day command thee, to love the Lord thy God, and to serve him with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, ¹⁴ he will give rain for thy land in due season; the former and the latter rain; and thou shalt gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

⁴ You shall follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and hearken to his voice, and cleave to him.

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; ² and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and find thee. If thou wilt hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God, ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city; and blessed shalt thou be in the field; ⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the products of thy land, and thy herds, and thy flocks. ⁵ Blessed shall be thy granaries, and thy stores. ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed when thou goest out. ⁷ May the Lord thy God deliver up thine enemies, who rise up against thee, to be smitten before thee. They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. ⁸ The Lord send upon thee the blessing in thy store houses, and on all the labours of thy hands, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 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, ¹⁰ then shall all the nations of the earth see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of thee; ¹¹ and the Lord thy God will multiply thee, for good, in the offspring of thy body, and in the increase of thy cattle, and in the products of thy ground, in the land which he solemnly promised thy fathers to give thee. ¹² The Lord open for thee his good treasury, the heaven, to give thy land the rain in due season. May he bless all the works of thy hands, so that thou mayst lend to many nations, and not borrow of them; ¹³ and that thou mayst rule over many nations, and they not rule over thee. May the Lord establish thee for a head and not for a tail, so that thou mayst be above, and not beneath. If thou wilt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all that I this day enjoin thee, ¹⁴ thou wilt not turn aside from all the commandments which I this day command thee, either to the right, or to the left, to go after other gods, to serve them.

¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with sincerity and truth, and put away the strange gods which our fathers worshipped in beyond the river, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ¹⁵ But if it seemeth not good to you to serve the Lord, chuse for yourselves this day whom you will serve, either the gods of your fathers which were in beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord; for he is holy.

²¹ And the people said to Joshua, Nay, we will serve none but the Lord.

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

³ Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If with your whole heart you turn to the Lord, put away the strange gods from among you, and the bowers, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve him alone, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

²⁰ Whereupon Samuel said to the people, Fear not. You have done all this evil; yet turn not away from following the Lord; but serve the Lord with your whole heart,

²⁴ I will indeed serve the Lord, and point out the good and straight way: in addition to this, fear ye the Lord, and serve him with truth, and with your whole heart; for you have seen what great things he hath done with you.

³ who pardoneth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;

¹⁶ he shall dwell in a lofty cavern of a strong rock: bread shall be given him and his water shall not fail.

²⁴ but let not the people who dwell among these say, "I am wearied out for their sin is forgiven them."

² and expose them to the sun and moon and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven which they loved and served, and after which they went and to which they were attached, and to which they bowed down. They shall not be lamented nor buried; but shall be for a spectacle, on the face of the earth

¹⁰ Now let that which hath been plundered from him be in his house. Turn now in this respect, saith the Lord Almighty: [see] if I will not open for you the flood gates of heaven and pour my blessing upon you, until there is enough;

¹⁰ Whereupon Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan: for it is written, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and serve him alone.

⁸ And Abraham declining died in a good old age, an old man and full of days and he was added to his people.

²⁹ And Isaak fainting away died and was added to his race being an old man and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all the nations. There shall not be a male without a progeny, nor a female barren among you, or your cattle.

⁴ blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the products of thy land, and thy herds, and thy flocks.

¹ When David was old and full of days, and had made Solomon his son king over Israel in his stead,

²⁶ And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe grain cut in due season; or like a heap from a threshing floor, carried home in time.

¹⁰ Their kine bring not forth untimely births, but go their time safely, and cast not their calves.

¹⁷ and died an old man and full of days. And it is written that he will rise again with them whom the Lord raiseth up. This is translated out of a book in the Syrian language: For he dwelt in the land of Ausitis, on the confines of Idumea and Arabia. His first name was Jobab, and having married an Arabian woman, he had by her a son whose name was Ennon. Now he himself was a son of father Zare, one of the sons of Esau, and his mother"s name was Bosorra: so that he was the fifth in descent from Abraham. Now these were the kings who reigned in Edom, over which country he also bore rule. The first was Balak, the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dannaba. And after Balak, Jobab, who is called Job; and after him, Asom who was general from the region of Thaimanitis; and after him, Adad, son of Barad, who smote Madiam in the plain of Moab; and the name of his city was Gethaim. And the friends who came to Job were Eliphaz, of the sons of Esau, the king of the Thaimanites; Baldad, the sovereign of the Saucheans, and Sophar, the king of the Minaians.

²³ But thou, O God, wilt drag them down to the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days. But as for me I will trust in thee, Lord.

¹⁰ The days of these years of ours are seventy years: and if by reason of strength they be eighty years; still the surplus of them is labour and sorrow. Because gentleness hath come upon us: let us, therefore,

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

¹³ their store houses full and overflowing; their flocks prolific, abounding in their outwalks;

²⁰ Nor shall there any more be there an untimely birth, nor an old man, who shall not complete his term. For he who is a hundred years old shall be young; and the sinner, who dieth at a hundred years, shall be deemed accursed.

¹⁰ Now let that which hath been plundered from him be in his house. Turn now in this respect, saith the Lord Almighty: [see] if I will not open for you the flood gates of heaven and pour my blessing upon you, until there is enough; ¹¹ and send you it for food and no more destroy the fruit of your land; so that your vine shall no more be sickly in the field, saith the Lord Almighty,

⁵ Then Israel removed from the country of the Sekimites; and a terror of God was on all the cities around them, so that they did not pursue the children of Israel.

¹⁴ Nations have heard and are troubled: Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim; ¹⁵ The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them: All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled. ¹⁶ On them let dread and terror fall. By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified, till thy people pass through, Lord; till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased.

²⁵ Begin to impress the fear of thee, and the dread of thee, on the face of all the nations under heaven. They who hear of thy name shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

²³ But the Lord thy God will deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until you may utterly exterminate them.

²³ the Lord will drive out all those nations from before you, and you shall possess nations much greater and stronger than you.

²⁵ None shall be able to stand before you. For the Lord your God will impress the fear of you, and the dread of you, on the face of all the land on which you shall tread, as the Lord hath said to you.

⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: ¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath,

¹⁵ And there was a consternation in the camp, and in the field; and all the people who were in Messab, and they who were spoiling, were struck with horror, and would not do any thing; for the earth trembled, and the consternation was from the Lord.

⁶ For the Lord had caused the sound of chariots and the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army to be heard in the Syrian camp: whereupon they said one to another, Now hath the king of Israel hired against us the kings of the Chettites and the kings of Egypt to come upon us.

¹⁴ and smitten the towns about Gedor [for the terror of the Lord was upon them] and had rifled all their cities [for there was much plunder in them]

⁴⁰ Thou hast given me the backs of mine enemies, and utterly destroyed them who hate me.

²⁰ The Lord thy God will indeed send hornets against them, until they who are left, and hid from thee, are utterly destroyed.

¹¹ And when you crossed the Jordan, and came to Jericho, and the Amorites who inhabited Jericho, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Chettites, and the Gergasites, fought against us, the Lord delivered them into our hands. ¹² Indeed he sent before you the hornet, and drove them out from before us, even the twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow,

²² The Lord thy God will indeed consume those nations from before thee, by little and little. Thou wilt not be enabled to destroy them at once, lest the land become a waste, and the wild beasts multiply against thee.

⁶³ But the Jebusites dwelt in Jerusalem, and the children of Juda were not able to destroy them. So the Jebusites had dwelt in Jerusalem to this day.

¹⁰ But Ephraim did not destroy the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Chananites have dwelt among the Ephraimites to this day.

¹² but the Manassites were not able to exterminate the inhabitants of these cities. The Chananites had begun to settle in that land, ¹³ and when the Israelites became strong, they brought the Chananites into subjection, and did not utterly extirpate them.

¹ Now these are the nations which the Lord spared to prove Israel; with an intent moreover, in regard to all those who would be unacquainted with the wars of Chanaan, ² to instruct in the art of war, not only the present, but the succeeding: generations of the children of Israel, who knew not these things: ³ namely the five Satrapies of the Philistines, and all the Chananites, and the Sidonians, and the Evites who inhabited Libanus from mount Aermon to Laboemath. ⁴ But while he was by them proving Israel, to know whether they would hearken to the commandments of the Lord, which he had given in charge to their fathers by the hand of Moses,

³⁴ the Lord said to Moses, Be not afraid of him; for into thy hands I will deliver him, and all his people, and all his land; And thou shalt do to him, as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Hesebon.

³ And your southern border shall be, from the wilderness of Sin, until it joineth Edom. ⁴ And your boundaries on the south shall be, from a part of the salt sea on the east, and that boundary shall encompass you on the south, to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall pass on to Ennak, and run along south of Kades-barne and come to the sheepcot of Arad, and pass along by Asemona: ⁵ and from Asemona the boundary shall wind round along the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be the sea. ⁶ Then you shall have the sea for a boundary. The great sea shall bound you: this shall be your western boundary. ⁷ And your boundary on the north shall be this; from the great sea you shall measure off for yourselves, along the range of mountains; ⁸ from mountain to mountain you shall measure off for yourselves: beginning at the bay of Emath, and extending along the border of Saradak, ⁹ the boundary shall come out along the borders of Dephrona and its termination shall be Arsenain. This shall be your northern boundary. ¹⁰ Then you shall measure off for yourselves the eastern boundary from Arsenain to Sepphamar; and from Sepphamar ¹¹ the boundary shall run down to Bela, on the east of the fountains, then down along the borders of Bela, on the eastern side of the sea of Chenerith; ¹² then down the Jordan; and its termination shall be the salt sea. ¹³ This shall be your land and these its boundaries round about. So Moses gave a charge to the Israelites saying, This is the land which you shall parcel out, by lot, in the manner the Lord hath commanded it to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses; ¹⁴ because the tribe of the Reubenites, and the tribe of the Gadites, according to the houses of their families, and the half of the tribe of the Manassites, have received their allotments. ¹⁵ two tribes, and the half of a tribe, have received their lots on the south east side of the Jordan, in front of Jericho.

² the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon.

²⁴ Every place on which you shall imprint the track of your feet shall; be yours, from the wilderness to Antilibanus, and from the river, the great river Euphrates, to the western sea. These shall be your boundaries.

⁴ The wilderness, and yonder Antilibanus, to the river, the great river Euphrates, and to the farthest sea, at the setting of the sun, shall be your boundaries.

⁷ Then you will rise from the ambush, and rush into the city.

¹⁸ Then the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch forth thy hand, with the spear in thy hand, towards the city; for into thy hands I have delivered it, and the men in ambush will rise quickly from their place. So Joshua stretched forth his hand, with the spear towards the city;

⁸ And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for I have delivered them into thy hands. There shall not one of them be left before you.

¹⁹ but as for you, halt not; pursue your enemies, and attack their rear, and suffer them not to enter their cities; for the Lord our God hath delivered them into our hands.

⁴⁴ and the Lord gave them rest round about, as he sware to their fathers. Of all their enemies not one rose up against them. The Lord delivered all their enemies into their hands.

¹⁴ As for me, I am going speedily the way of all who are on the earth. Now you must know in your heart, and in your soul, that not one word hath failed of all that the Lord our God hath said. With respect to all that have come to us, not one of them have failed.

⁸ he brought us to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan; and the Lord delivered them into our hands, and you took possession of their land, and extirpated them from before you.

¹² Indeed he sent before you the hornet, and drove them out from before us, even the twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow,

¹⁸ and the Lord hath driven out from before us the Amorites, and all the nations who dwelt in this land; therefore we will serve none but the Lord; for he is our God.

⁴ And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered into their hands the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and they smote them in Bezek, to the number of ten thousand men.

²¹ And the Lord God of Israel delivered into the hands of Israel, Seon and all his people, and they smote him. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited the country

⁴ Then David inquired again of the Lord, and the Lord answered him, and said to him, Arise and go down to Keila; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hands.

²¹ [Omitted]

²⁴ for he was supreme on this side the river, and was at peace with all around.

¹³ behold a certain prophet came to Achab king of Israel and said, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen this great multitude? Behold I deliver them up this day into thy hands, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

⁸ And let him rule from sea to sea; and from the river to the limits of the World.

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.

¹⁵ Peradventure, shouldst thou make a covenant with those settled in that land, when they go a whoring after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and invite thee thou mayst eat with them;

¹ While Israel abode at Sattin, the people profaned themselves to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols,

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy,

¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the spoils of the nations, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: Thine eye shall not have pity on them. And thou shalt not perform religious service to their gods; for this is a snare for thee.

¹⁴ Then the rulers took some of their provisions, and did not consult the Lord. ¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and they entered into a covenant with them to save their lives; and the chiefs of the congregation sword to them. ¹⁶ But three days after they had entered into covenant with them, they heard that they were in the neighbourhood, and dwelt close by them. ¹⁷ Whereupon the children of Israel removed, and came to their cities. Now their cities were Gabaon, and Kephira, and Berot, and the cities of Jarim; ¹⁸ But the children of Israel did not make war on them, because all the chiefs had sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel. ¹⁹ When all the congregation murmured at the chiefs, the chiefs said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel; now therefore we cannot touch them. ²⁰ This we will do. We will let them live and protect them; that there may be no wrath against us because of the oath which we have sworn to them. ²¹ They shall live; but they shall be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the chiefs have said to them. ²² For Joshua had called them, and said to them, Why did you impose upon me saying, We are far distant from thee, seeing you are our nearest neighbour? ²³ Now therefore you are cursed, and not one of you shall escape servitude; from being a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for me and my God.

¹ In the days of David there was a famine three years, year after year successively; whereupon David applied to the Lord, and the Lord said, On Saul and on his house be the iniquity, by the death of his descendants, because he put to death the Gabaonites. ² Now the Gabaonites are not of the children of Israel, but a remnant of the Amorites, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought occasion to smite them, when he was courting popularity with the children of Israel and Juda.

³⁵ but mingled with those nations; and learned their works.

¹⁵ What concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy, ³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son.

³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are driven out from before thee, saying, How did these nations sacrifice to their gods? I will sacrifice in like manner.

¹³ be assured that the Lord will no more drive out those nations from before you; but they shall be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you be destroyed from this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you.

³ therefore I have said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be curbs for you; and their gods shall be to you a stumbling block.

²¹ and Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him. Now the hand of the Philistines was against Saul,

¹⁶ [Omitted]

³⁶ And served their graven images which became to them a stumbling block.

²⁶ and they who have been captivated by the devil for his pleasure, may rouse and escape from his snare.