Exodus 32 Cross References - Thomson

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. ⁶ So rising early in the morning he caused whole burnt offerings to be brought up, and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. ⁷ Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Go quickly, go down from this place; for thy people whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed. ⁸ They have quickly turned aside out of the way in which thou commandedst them to walk and have made for themselves a young bull and worshipped it; and have sacrificed to it and said, These are thy gods, Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. ⁹ [Omitted] ¹⁰ Now therefore let me alone, that being provoked to wrath against them I may utterly destroy them, and I will make thee a great nation. ¹¹ Upon which Moses made supplication before the Lord God and said, Shouldst thou, Lord, be provoked to wrath against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with thine uplifted arm, ¹² perhaps the Egyptians may speak, saying, With an ill intent he led them out to slay them on the mountains and utterly consume them from the earth. Stay thy fierce indignation and be merciful at this wickedness of thy people, ¹³ remembering Abraham and Isaak and Jacob thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself and didst speak saying, I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of heaven for multitude; and didst say that thou wouldst give them all that land, that they should possess it for ever. ¹⁴ And when the Lord was moved with compassion to save his people, ¹⁵ Moses turned and went down from the mount with the two tables of the testimony in his hands. Now the tables were of stone written on both sides. On the one side and on the other they were written, ¹⁶ and the tables were the work of God. And the writing was the writing of God engraved on the tables. ¹⁷ And Joshua hearing the sound of the people shouting said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp. ¹⁸ To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at a revel, which I hear. ¹⁹ And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount. 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. ²¹ And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people do to thee, that thou hast brought upon them this great sin? ²² Upon which Aaron said to Moses, Be not angry, my lord, for thou knowest the impetuousness of this people. ²³ For they said to me, Make us gods which shall go before us, for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of Egypt we know not what is become of him. ²⁴ Whereupon I said to them, If any one hath golden ornaments take them off. So they gave me and I cast into the fire, and out came that bull. ²⁵ And when Moses saw that the people were scattered abroad; for Aaron had scattered and made them a derision to their enemies, ²⁶ Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, Who is for the Lord? Let him come to me. Upon which all the sons of Levi joined him. ²⁷ Then Moses said to them, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Gird ye every man his sword on his thigh and pass through and wheel about from gate to gate through the camp and slay every man his brother and every man his neighbour and every one him who is nearest of kin to him. ²⁸ And the children of Levi did as Moses spoke to them and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. ²⁹ For Moses said to them, Fill your hands to-day for the Lord, every one with his son or with his brother that a blessing may be bestowed on you. ³⁰ And on the following day Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin, now therefore I will go up to God that I may appease him for this sin of yours. ³¹ So Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord! this people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold. ³² Now therefore, if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast written. ³³ And the Lord said to Moses, Whoever have sinned before me, them will I blot out of my book. 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. ³⁵ Now when the Lord had smitten the people for making the bull which Aaron had made,

¹⁴ Upon this Lot went out and spoke to his sons in law, who had bethrothed his daughters and said, Arise and depart from this place; for the Lord is going to destroy this city. But he seemed to his sons in law to be mocking.

²⁶ And Abimelech said to him, I did not know that any one had done this to thee. Thou didst not tell me, nor did I hear of it till this day.

⁸ but he refused and said to his master's wife, Seeing my lord, on account of his confidence in me, knoweth not any thing in his house, and hath committed to my charge all that he hath

⁴ And when they were gone out of the city, but had not got far off, Joseph said to his steward, Arise and pursue those men; and when thou shalt overtake them, say to them, Why have you returned evil for good?

¹⁵ And Joseph said to them, What is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can divine?

²¹ And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.

¹¹ and said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in the land of Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness? Why hast thou dealt thus with us in bringing us out of Egypt?

³ The Israelites indeed said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh meat and ate bread in plenty! For you have brought us to this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

³ Thou shalt have no other gods besides me. ⁴ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth; 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;

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

⁷ Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Go quickly, go down from this place; for thy people whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed.

¹¹ Upon which Moses made supplication before the Lord God and said, Shouldst thou, Lord, be provoked to wrath against thy people, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with thine uplifted arm,

³ And I will bring thee to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I must not go with thee because thou art a stiff necked people, lest I destroy thee in the way.

¹⁴ And he said, Must I myself go before thee and give thee rest? ¹⁵ To which Moses replied, Unless thou thyself accompany us, take me not away from this place:

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; ¹⁶ that you may not transgress, and make for yourselves a graven image; any kind of image, the likeness of man or woman; ¹⁷ the likeness of any of the beasts which are on the earth; the likeness of any winged bird, which flieth in the air; ¹⁸ the likeness of any reptile, which creepeth on the ground; the likeness of any fish which is in the waters below the earth;

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

¹¹ And after the forty days, and the forty nights, when the Lord gave me the two tables of stone; the tables of the covenant, ¹² the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from this place: for thy people, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt, have transgressed. They have gone aside quickly out of the way, to which thou didst enjoin them, and have made for themselves a molten image.

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

¹³ yet by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt and by a prophet he was preserved.

⁴ For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, and sent before thee Moses and Aaron and Mariam.

⁴³ But this you know, that if the master of a family knew at what watch the thief would come, he would be upon guard and not suffer him to break into his house.

⁴⁸ But if that servant being wicked should say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, Make gods for us to go before us; for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him.

²⁹ Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to imagine the Deity to be like gold, or silver, or stone, wrought by the art and contrivance of man.

²⁶ And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul by his persuasion hath perverted a vast multitude, saying that they which are made with hands, are not gods.

⁴ and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

²² And when all the camels had done drinking, the man took ear rings of gold of about a drachm weight, and a pair of bracelets for her hands, the weight of which was ten pieces of gold,

⁴⁷ I asked her saying, Whose daughter art thou? Tell me. And she said, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him. Then I put the ear rings on her and the bracelets on her hands,

³⁵ now the Israelites had done as Moses commanded them; they had asked of the Egyptian gold and silver vessels and raiment, ³⁶ and the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and they had supplied them, so they spoiled the Egyptians

²² then the men brought from their wives; every one as it seemed good brought seals and pendants and rings and necklaces and bracelets and all sorts of jewels of gold.

²⁴ Then Gideon said to them. I have a favour to ask of you. Give me every man the earrings of his spoils; for the enemy wore gold ear rings, because they were Ismaelites. ²⁵ And they said, We will give them cheerfully. So he spread his mantle, and they threw thereon, every man, the ear rings of his spoils; ²⁶ and the weight of the gold ear-rings, which he had requested, was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, exclusive of the necklaces, and bracelets, and the garments, and purple robes, which were on the kings of Madiam, and exclusive of the chains which were about the neck of their camels. ²⁷ And of this Gideon made an ephod, and set it up in his city in Ephratha; and all Israel went there a whoring after it, and it became a stumbling block to Gideon, and his house.

¹¹ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets round thy wrists and a chain round thy neck, ¹² and gave thee a jewel for thy nose and ear-rings for thine ears, and a crown of exquisite beauty for thy head.

¹⁷ thou didst take the vessels, which were thy boast, made of my gold and of my silver, some of those which I gave thee; and didst make for thyself male images and commit fornication with them.

⁸ She indeed did not acknowledge that I gave her the corn and wine and oil; and multiplied silver for her: but she made ornaments of gold and silver for Baal:

³ And when he gave his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, I indeed had dedicated this money to the Lord, out of my hand, for my son to make a graven and a molten image. ⁴ Now therefore I will give it to thee. So when he gave his mother the money, she took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silver smith, and of it he made a graven and a molten image, and it was in the house of Micah.

¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him? ²⁰ for the carpenter chuseth a sound piece of timber and will inquire wisely, how he may place his image that it may not be moved.

⁶ Collecting gold from a bag, and silver by weight they will put it in a balance; and having hired a goldsmith they made handiworks and bowing themselves down they will worship them.

⁹ From Tharsis will come the gold of Mophaz, and the hand of men skilled in casting gold. They are all the workmanship of artists. With blue and purple raiment they are to be clothed:

² I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage.

²³ You shall not make for yourselves gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

⁹ And thou shalt take the two stones, smaragdine stones, and engrave upon them the names of the sons of Israel,

¹¹ With the workmanship of a skilful engraver, like the engraving of a seal, thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel.

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.

⁸ They have quickly turned aside out of the way in which thou commandedst them to walk and have made for themselves a young bull and worshipped it; and have sacrificed to it and said, These are thy gods, Israel, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ And when I saw that you had sinned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk;

²⁸ Therefore the king took counsel and went and made two calves of gold, and said to the people, Rest satisfied in respect to your going up to Jerusalem. Behold these are thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made.

²⁹ But he did not refrain from following the sins of Jeroboam son of Nabat, who had caused Israel to sin. The golden calves continued in Baithel and in Dan.

¹⁵ and made for himself priests of the high places for the idols, and the vanities and the calves which Jeroboam made.

⁸ and now you think of rising up against the kingdom of the Lord administered by the suns of David. You indeed are a great multitude, and you have with you the calves of gold which Jeroboam hath made for you to be your gods.

¹⁸ Even before this, though they made themselves a molten calf and said, These are the gods which brought us up out of Egypt, and committed great provocations;

¹⁹ Even at Choreb they made a calf, and worshipped the graven image; ²⁰ and exchanged their glory for the image of an ox which eateth grass. ²¹ They forgot God their saviour, who had done great things in Egypt;

¹⁸ to whom have you likened the Lord? and to what likeness have you compared him? ¹⁹ Hath a carpenter when he hath made an image, or the goldsmith when he hath melted gold and gilded it, prepared this as a likeness of him?

⁹ And have not then the fashioners and engravers heard? They are all fools making things to please their fancies; things which cannot profit them: but shame shall cover these god makers, ¹⁰ and all the engravers of these useless things.

⁴ They made kings for themselves but not by me; they set up a government and did not consult me; of their silver and gold they made idols for themselves that they might be utterly cut off. ⁵ Away with thy calf, Samaria! my wrath is kindled against them.

⁵ Let the inhabitants of Samaria sojourn with the calf of the house of On, because its people mourned for it. Now as they provoked it they should rejoice at its glory; that it hath been removed from them.

² And now they have proceeded on to greater acts of sin; and of their silver have made themselves a molten image, according to the image of idols. The handiworks of craftsmen being consecrated for them, They say, Sacrifice men, for young bulls have failed.

⁴¹ So they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice for the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

²¹ because when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks, but became vain by their ill- grounded reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened; ²² pretending to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for an image representing coruptible man, and birds, and four footed beasts, and reptiles;

⁹ And Moses said, We must go with young and old, with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for it is the festival of the Lord.

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.

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.

² Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, With respect to the festivals of the Lord, which you shall proclaim holy, set days; these are my festivals.

⁴ These are the festivals for the Lord; holy, set days, which you shall proclaim in their set times.

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.

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,

³⁵ And Saul built an altar there to the Lord. This was the first altar which Saul built to the Lord.

³² And Jeroboam instituted a festival in the eighth month, on the fifteenth clay of the month, answering to the festival in the land of Juda, and he went up to the altar which he made at Baithel to burn incense to the calves which he had made, and presented at Baithel the priests of the high places whom he had made. ³³ But when he ascended the altar, which he had made, on the fifteenth day of the eight month, at the festival which he had devised out of his own heart and made a festival for the children of Israel; when he ascended the altar to offer incense,

⁹ This was the purport of the letter. Proclaim a fast and set Nabuthi at the head of the people,

²⁰ Then Jehu said, Hallow a solemnity for Baal. And when they had proclaimed it,

¹¹ And Ourias the priest built an altar according to all that king Achaz sent from Damascus.

⁵ therefore they determined to make proclamation, throughout all Israel, from Bersabee to Dan, that they might come and keep the passover, to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem, because a multitude had not done it according to the scripture.

¹¹ Because Ephraim multiplied altars for sins; altars were to him objects of love;

¹⁴ Israel indeed forgot his Maker and built fanes, and Juda multiplied fenced cities; but into these cities of his I will send a fire, and it shall devour those buildings of theirs.

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.

⁴ Then Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. And rising early next morning Moses built an altar at the foot of the mount with twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel; ⁵ and he sent out the young men of the children of Israel and they brought up whole burnt offerings and slew young bulls for a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord.

¹⁷ And Joshua hearing the sound of the people shouting said to Moses, There is a sound of war in the camp. ¹⁸ To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at a revel, which I hear. ¹⁹ And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.

² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols,

²³ the chiefs of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to rejoice. And they said; God hath delivered Sampson, our great enemy into our hand. ²⁴ And when the people saw him, they sung praises to their god, saying, Our god hath delivered our enemy into our hands; him who wasted our land, and multiplied the number of our slain. ²⁵ Now when their heart was elated with joy, they said, Call Sampson from the prison, and let him make sport for us; so they called Sampson from the prison, and be made sport for them; and when they bad beaten him with rods, they set him between two pillars.

⁸ having bound their garments with cords of rushes, they pitched their tents near the altar, and drank, in the house of their God, wine got by extortion.

¹⁰ And I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into songs of lamentation. And I will bring sackcloth on every loin and baldness on every head, and cause a mourning for him like that for a beloved, and for them with him, like that of a day of sorrow.

⁴¹ So they made a calf in those days and brought a sacrifice for the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² Therefore God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven. As it is written in the book of the Prophets, "Have you, O house of Israel, offered to me burnt offerings and sacrifices, forty years in the wilderness?

⁷ Be not ye then idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play:"

¹⁰ And they who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and be glad, and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented them who dwelt on the earth.

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with iniquity. ¹² And God beheld the earth and it was corrupt. Because all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth;

²⁴ But the Lord said to him, Away; go down and come up thou and Aaron with thee; but let not the priests nor the people presume to come up to God lest peradventure the Lord destroy some of them.

¹ the Lord said to Moses, Depart, go up hence thou and thy people whom thou hast led out of the land of Egypt, to the land which with an oath I promised to Abraham and Isaak and Jacob, saying, To your seed I will give it.

¹⁶ that you may not transgress, and make for yourselves a graven image; any kind of image, the likeness of man or woman;

¹² the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from this place: for thy people, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt, have transgressed. They have gone aside quickly out of the way, to which thou didst enjoin them, and have made for themselves a molten image.

⁵ They have sinned! blemished children are not his. Crooked and perverse generation!

¹⁹ But when the judge died, and they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, by going after other gods to serve them, and worship them, and would not quit their devices, nor their perverse ways,

²⁴ Seventy weeks are set apart for thy people and for the holy city; for finishing sin offerings, and for sealing up sin offerings; and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities; and for bringing in an everlasting righteousness; and for sealing vision and prophet; and for anointing the Holy of Holies.

⁹ they were corrupt as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.

³ Thou shalt have no other gods besides me. ⁴ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth;

²⁰ He who sacrificeth to any god save to the Lord alone shall be destroyed by death.

¹⁷ When they indeed hearkened not to the judges, because they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked; did not act in obedience to the commands of the Lord;

⁵ Whereupon the Lord said to the Israelites, You are a stiff necked people, take care that I bring not another stroke on you and utterly consume you. Now therefore strip off the robes of your glory and your ornaments and I will shew thee what I will do to thee.

⁹ and said, If I have found favour in thy sight; let my Lord go with us: for this people is stiff necked, and thou wilt take away our sins and our iniquities and we shall be for thee.

⁶ Know therefore this day, that it is not for thy righteousness that the Lord thy God giveth thee that good land for a possession; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

¹³ Moreover the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to thee once and again and said, I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiffnecked people;

¹⁶ Circumcise therefore the stubbornness of your hearts, and be no more stiffnecked.

²⁷ for I know thy contentious disposition, and thy stiff neck. For even now while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against God; how then can it be otherwise after my death?

⁸ Now therefore be not stubborn as your fathers were. Give glory to the Lord God, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath hallowed forever, and serve the Lord your God, and he will turn away his fierce indignation from you.

¹⁷ Though they refused to go in, and were unmindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; though they hardened their neck, and set up a head to return to their bondage in Egypt, yet thou who art a God merciful and gracious, long suffering and of great kindness, didst not forsake them utterly.

⁸ that they might not be like their fathers; a perverse and rebellious generation; a generation which set not their hearts aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

¹ Better is a man of experience, than a man who is stiff-necked: for when the latter is suddenly burned, there is no healing him.

⁴ I know that thou art of an untractable temper, that thy neck is a sinew of iron and thy brow, brass;

²⁷ On the mounts and in the fields I have seen thine abominations. Alas for thee, Jerusalem, because thou hast not purified thyself to follow Me. How much longer will it be before thou wilt?

¹⁰ I saw there the horrible fornication of Ephraim. Israel is polluted.

¹¹ but they refused to attend and turned back contemptuously; and stopped their ears that they might not hear; ¹² and made their heart disobedient that they might not hearken to my law; therefore [according to the words which the Lord Almighty by his spirit sent by the ministry of the former prophets] there was great wrath from the Lord Almighty;

⁵¹ O stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears Ye do always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye.

³² And he said I will not destroy it, if I find twenty there. And Abraham said, Wilt thou, Lord, be offended, if I speak yet once more? But if ten be found there? And he said, For the sake of ten I will not destroy it. ³³ Then the Lord having done speaking to Abraham departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

²⁶ And he said to him, Let me go: for the dawn approached. But Jacob said I will not let thee go unless thou bless me. ²⁷ And he said to him what is thy name? to which he replied, Jacob. ²⁸ Thereupon he said to him, Thy name shall no more be Jacob only, but Israel also shall be thy name. Since thou hast been enabled to prevail with God, therefore with men thou shalt be mighty.

²⁴ and my wrath will be kindled, and I will slay you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

¹⁹ And when he approached the camp and saw the young bull and the choirs, Moses being inflamed with wrath threw the two tables from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mount.

¹² Let me smite them with pestilence and destroy them, and I will make thee and the house of thy father a great nation and much more numerous than this.

¹⁹ forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time. ²⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses, I am merciful to them according to thy word.

²² At this they fell on their faces and said, God, the God of the spirits even of all flesh! If one man hath sinned, is the wrath of the Lord against the whole congregation?

⁴⁵ Withdraw from among this congregation, and I will destroy them all at once. ⁴⁶ Whereupon they fell on their face. And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put therein fire from the altar, and throw incense on it, and carry it with all haste to the camp, and make atonement for them; for wrath is gone forth from the presence of the Lord, and hath begun to slay the people. ⁴⁷ So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; [Now the destruction among the people had already begun] and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people, ⁴⁸ and stood between the dead and the living; and the plague ceased.

¹⁴ now therefore let me utterly destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a nation, great and powerful, and much more numerous than this.

¹⁹ Even now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also.

¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, Pray not for the prosperity of this people;

¹ Then the Lord said to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My soul is not towards them. Send away this people and let them go.

¹⁶ Confess your faults to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man under the divine impulse is very powerful.

¹¹ yet Moses said to the Lord, Why hast thou afflicted thy servant; and why have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou shouldst lay upon me the weight of this people?

¹⁸ Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights; [I neither ate bread nor drank water]; for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath. ¹⁹ Even now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also. ²⁰ Even against Aaron, his wrath was kindled to destroy him; But I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

²⁶ I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, thou king of all the gods, destroy not thy people, and thy heritage, whom thou hast redeemed, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy strong hand, and with thine outstretched arm. ²⁷ Remember Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself. Look not upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness, and their sins, ²⁸ lest they who dwell in the land, out of which thou hast brought them, should speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them; and because he hated them, he led them out into the wilderness to kill them. ²⁹ Now these are thy people, and thy inheritance, whom thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, with thy mighty power, and with thy strong hand, and with thine outstretched arm.

¹ Of understanding. By Asaph. O GOD, why hast thou utterly cast off? Why is thy wrath extreme against the sheep of thy pasture? ² Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old; this portion of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed; this mount Sion on which thou hast dwelt.

²³ whereupon he spake of destroying them, had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the breach, to turn him from his fierce indignation, that he might not utterly destroy.

¹⁷ why, O Lord hast thou suffered us to wander from thy way, and our hearts to be hardened so as not to fear thee? Return for the sake of thy servants; for the sake of the tribes of thy heritage,

¹ [p] Righteous as thou art, O Lord, can I defend a cause against thee? but let me speak to thee in respect to judgments. Why is the way of wicked men prosperous? Why are they happy who have been all guilty of perfidy? ² Thou hast planted them and they have taken root, they have generated and produced fruit. Thou art near in their mouth, but far from their reins.

⁶ God was grieved that he had made man on the earth.

¹⁴ And when the Lord was moved with compassion to save his people,

¹³ Thereupon Moses said to the Lord, Though Egypt may publish that thou by thy mighty power didst bring this people out from among them; ¹⁴ Nay though all the inhabitants of this land have heard that thou the Lord art among this people; that they with their eyes may behold thee, Lord, exposed to view; and that thy cloud hath stood over them, and that thou marchest before them in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night; ¹⁵ yet when thou shalt destroy this people as one man, then will all the nations who have heard of thy name speak, saying, ¹⁶ Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which, with an oath, he promised them, he hath destroyed them in the wilderness.

²⁸ lest they who dwell in the land, out of which thou hast brought them, should speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them; and because he hated them, he led them out into the wilderness to kill them.

¹⁷ nor shall any thing of what is devoted to destruction cleave to thy hand, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his wrath, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion on thee, and multiply thee, in the manner he solemnly promised thy fathers,

²⁶ I had determined to disperse them, And cause the remembrance of them to cease among men; ²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this.

³⁶ Because the Lord will judge his people; When he shall be appeased for his servants, [For he saw that they were enfeebled, Made faint by hostile invasions and dejected]

⁹ When the Chananite, and all the inhabitants of this land hear this, they will encompass us, and drive us from this land. What then wilt thou do in respect to thy great name?

²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

¹⁴ Let our chiefs, we pray thee, attend; and let all those in our cities who have taken strange wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders of each respective city, and the judges, that they may turn away from us the fierce anger of our God for this matter.

¹⁸ Remember this creation of thine. An enemy hath reproached the Lord; a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.

³⁸ But he being merciful forgave their sins, and would not utterly destroy them. Yea, many a time did he turn away his wrath, and would not suffer all his wrath to blaze forth;

⁹ help us, God, our saviour: for thy glory of thy name deliver us; and pardon our sins for thy name's sake. ¹⁰ Perhaps they may say among the nations, Where is their God? Let therefore the avengement of the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed; be known among the nations in our sight.

³ Thou hast caused all thine anger to cease: thou hast turned away from thy fierce wrath.

¹³ Return, Lord. How long shall it first be? And be pacified with thy servants.

⁴⁵ he remembered his covenant and according to the multitude of his mercies;

⁹ but that my name might not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, I did in their sight [those miracles] by which I was made known to them, in order to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ But I acted so that my name should not be altogether profaned in the sight of the nations, before whose eyes I had brought them out:

²² But I acted so that my name should not be utterly profaned in the sight of the nations. As I had brought them out before their eyes,

³ relent, Lord at this. This therefore shall not be, saith the Lord.

⁶ This then shall not be, saith the Lord.

⁹ "Who knoweth but God will relent and turn away from his fierce wrath, so that we may not perish.

¹⁴ for thus saith the Lord Almighty, In the same manner as I thought of afflicting you, when your fathers provoked me, saith the Lord Almighty and I relented not;

² and I will make thee a great nation; and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be blessed;

⁷ And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, "To thy seed I will give this land." So Abram built there an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.

¹⁵ For all the land which thou seest I will give to thee and thy seed for ever. ¹⁶ And I will make thy seed like the dust of the earth. If any can count the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

⁵ Then he led him out and said to him, Look up now to the heaven and count the stars if thou canst number them. Then he said, So shall thy seed be.

⁷ Then he said to him, I am the God who brought thee out of the country of the Chaldees, that I might give thee this land to inherit it.

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 saying, By myself I have sworn, saith the Lord, Because thou hast done this, and for my sake hast not spared thy beloved son;

³ Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish my oath which I sware to thy father Abraham ⁴ and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

¹³ And the Lord leaned over it and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaak. Fear not. To thee and to thy seed I will give the land in which thou art sleeping. ¹⁴ And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and shall spread abroad to the west and the south, and the north and the east. And by thee all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed, namely by the seed of thee.

¹¹ And God said to him, I am thy God. Increase and multiply. Of thee shall be nations and collections of nations; and kings shall spring from thy loins. ¹² And this land, which I gave to Abraham and Isaak, I have given to thee. To thee it shall belong: and to thy seed after thee I will give this land.

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!

⁴² whereupon I will call to remembrance the covenant with Jacob, and the covenant with Isaak, and I will call to remembrance the covenant with Abraham, and remember the land.

⁸ but because the Lord loved you, therefore in performance of the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord led you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt.

²⁷ Remember Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou didst swear by thyself. Look not upon the stubbornness of this people, nor upon their wickedness, and their sins,

⁵⁴ He hath supported his servant Israel, remembering [as he spoke to our fathers] mercy ⁵⁵ for Abraham and his seed forever.

¹³ For when God made a promise to Abraham, as he had none greater to swear by, he swore by himself,

²⁶ I had determined to disperse them, And cause the remembrance of them to cease among men;

¹⁶ But when the angel of God stretched forth his hand against Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord was moved with compassion at the calamity, and said to the angel who was making havock among the people, It is enough. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of Orna the Jebusite.

¹⁵ And when God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and he was making havock, the Lord looked and relented at the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, Let this suffice thee. Stay thy hand. Now the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite.

⁸ if that nation turn from all their evils, I will relent in respect to the evils which I was resolving to bring on them.

¹³ Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and hearken to the voice of the Lord; and the Lord will refrain from all the evils which he hath denounced against you.

¹⁹ but did Ezekias and all Juda put him to death? No. Because they feared the Lord; and because they intreated the favour of the Lord: therefore the Lord refrained from the evils which he had denounced against them. Now as for us, we have committed great evils against our souls.

¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and full of compassion, and relenteth at evils.

¹⁰ And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil ways. And God relented at the evil which he said he would do to them, and did it not.

² and he prayed to the Lord and said, Lord were not these my words, when I was yet in my own country? For which cause I attempted to flee to Tharsis. For I knew that thou art compassionate and merciful, long suffering and abundant in kindness and relentest at evils.

³⁴ As the Lord commanded Moses so Aaron laid it up before the testimony that it might be kept.

¹⁸ Here he paused, and gave Moses, when he had ceased speaking to him on mount Sina, two tables of the testimony; tables of stone written with the finger of God.

²⁰ Then taking the testimonies he put them in the ark, and put the staves under the ark,

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

¹⁵ Whereupon I turned, and came down from the mount. Now the mount was blazing with fire up to heaven, and I had in my two hands the two tables of the testimonies.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, it restoreth souls: The testimony of the Lord is faithful, it maketh infants wise.

¹ And I saw in the right hand of him who was sitting on the throne a volume written within and on the back sealed with seven seals.

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like the first and come up to me on the mount, and I will write on those tables the words which were in the first tables which thou didst break;

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

⁹ When I went up the mountain to receive the tables of stone; the tables of the covenant which the Lord had made with you. Now I was on the mount forty days, and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water; ¹⁰ and the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, written with the finger of God: upon them indeed were written all the words which the Lord had spoken to you at the mount, on the day of the solemn assembly. ¹¹ And after the forty days, and the forty nights, when the Lord gave me the two tables of stone; the tables of the covenant,

¹ At that time the Lord said to me, Hew thee out two tables of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mount; and thou shalt make thee an ark of wood,

³ You are shewn publickly because you are the letter of Christ which we make use of. It is written, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of the heart.

⁷ [Now if the ministration of death engraven in letters, on stones, was attended with such glory, that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses, because of the temporary glory of his countenance;

¹⁰ This is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, After these days, saith the Lord, adapting my laws to their understanding I will write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

⁹ upon which Moses said to Joshua, Select for thyself able men and go out and draw up in array to-morrow against Amalek; when lo I have stood on the top of that hill with the staff of God in my hand.

¹³ Thereupon Moses arose with Joshua his attendant and they went up to the mount of God;

¹⁸ To which he replied, It is not the sound of men singing alternately as they rush to battle, nor is it the sound of men answering each other on a retreat, but the sound of responsive strains at a revel, which I hear.

⁵ let all the people at the same time shout; and upon their shouting, the walls of the city will fall of their own accord; and all the people shall enter, every one straight forward into the city.

¹⁰ Then Joshua gave a charge to the people, saying, Shout not, nor let any one hear your voice, till the day when He shall command you to shout. Then you shall shout.

¹⁶ And, at the seventh round, the priests sounded the trumpets, and Joshua said to the Israelites, Shout, for the Lord hath delivered up the city to you.

²⁰ Then the priests sounded the trumpets; and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people together uttered a great, loud, and continued shout, whereupon the whole wall round about fell, and all the people went up into the city.

¹⁴ And when they came to Jaw hone, the Philistines shouted, and ran to meet him. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him; and the cords which were on his arms became like tow, which is burned with fire; and the bands dropped from his hands,

⁵ And when the ark of the Lord came to the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, and the earth resounded. ⁶ Upon hearing the noise of the shouting, the Philistines said, What great shouting is this in the camp of the Hebrews? And when they understood that the ark of the Lord was come to the camp,

²⁰ [Omitted]

⁵² and the men of Israel, and Juda, arose, and shouted, and pursued them to the entrance of Geth, and to the gate of Ascalon. And the wounded of the Philistines fell on the road to the gates, all the way to Geth, and even to Akkaron.

¹¹ and they raised their responsive strains, in the song of praise and thanksgiving to the Lord For it is good; for to everlasting his mercy endureth for Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, to praise the Lord, at laying the foundation of the house of the Lord. ¹² But many of the priests and Levites, and the old chiefs of families, who with their eyes had seen the former house on its foundations, and now saw this, wept aloud, while the people were shouting for joy to swell the song; ¹³ so that the people could not distinguish the shouts of joy from the sound of the people's wailing. Because the people shouted with a loud shout, therefore the noise was heard at a great distance;

²⁵ but at the sound of the trumpet he saith, Aha, and snuffeth the battle from afar, with a bound and neighing.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm for the sons of Kore. Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout to God with a triumphant voice:

¹⁴ for the Lord hath sworn by his arm, "I will fill thee with men as with locusts; and they who go down shall utter a sound against thee."

¹⁴ therefore against the walls of Rabbath I will kindle a fire, which shall consume its foundations, with a shout in the day of battle; and it shall be shaken in the day of its destruction;

² therefore I will send a fire into Moab, and it shall devour the foundations of her cities, and Moab shall die of weakness: with shouting and with the clangour of trumpets,

¹ Then sung Moses and the Israelites this song to God, and spoke saying, Let us sing to the Lord, For he is gloriously exalted; Horse and rider he hath thrown in the sea. ² He was my help and defence for safety: He is my God, therefore I will praise him; My father's God, therefore I will extol him ³ A Lord crushing battles, his name is The Lord. ⁴ Pharao's chariots and host he threw in the sea; Chosen bands; Officers of highest rank. They were swallowed up in the Red sea. ⁵ In the sea, he whelmed them; They sank to the bottom like a stone. ⁶ Thy right hand, Lord, is glorious in power. Thy right hand, Lord, dashed enemies to pieces. ⁷ With thy great glory thou didst crush thine adversaries. Thou sentest forth thy wrath; it consumed them like stubble. ⁸ At the blast of thy wrath the water parted; The waters were compacted like a wall; The waves were condensed in the midst of the sea. ⁹ The enemy said, I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoil; I will glut my vengeance: My sword shall slay; my hand shall prevail. ¹⁰ Thou didst send forth thy blast, the sea covered them; They sank like lead in the mighty water. ¹¹ Who among the gods is like thee, Lord? Who is like thee? Glorified among Holies; Marvellous among Glories; working miracles! ¹² Thou didst stretch forth thy right hand, The earth swallowed them up, ¹³ In thy kindness thou hast been the guide Of this thy people whom thou hast redeemed. By thy power thou hast called them forth to thy holy place for resting. 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. 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. ¹⁸ The Lord reigneth for ever and for evermore.

⁴ And having drunk wine they praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and wood and stone.

²³ Yet thou hast exalted thyself against the Lord God of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles and thy concubines and thy wives have drunk wine out of them, and thou hast praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and iron and wood and stone which neither see nor hear, nor understand: but the God in whose hand is thy breath and all thy ways; him thou hast not glorified.

²⁰ therefore Mariam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took in her hand a timbrel and all the women went out after her with timbrels in choirs,

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. ⁶ So rising early in the morning he caused whole burnt offerings to be brought up, and offered a sacrifice of thanksgiving; and the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

³ [Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men on the earth,]

¹⁶ And when I saw that you had sinned before the Lord your God, and that you had made for yourselves a molten image, and had turned aside from the way in which the Lord had commanded you to walk; ¹⁷ having hold of the two tables, I threw them out of my hands and broke them before your eyes.

²⁶ Cursed be every man who will not persevere in all the words of this law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

¹⁴ And David played on well tuned instruments of music before the Lord; and David having put on an unusual robe,

³² Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. Because they did not abide by this covenant of mine, therefore I took no care of them.

¹⁵ The joy of our heart is at an end; our dance is turned into mourning.

¹⁰ And I will take my staff Beauty and throw it away, that I may break my covenant which I made with all these tribes. ¹¹ And on that day it shall be broken; and the Chananites, the sheep that are kept for me, shall know for what cause there is a word of the Lord.

¹⁴ Then I threw away the other staff Portion, that I may break the jointenancy between Juda and Israel.

²² But I say to you, Whosoever is angry with his brother without cause, shall be liable to the sentence of the judges: and whoever shall say to his brother, Raca, [a contemptuous word] shall be liable to the sentence of the Sanhedrim; and whoever shall say, Moreh, [a reproachful word] shall be liable [to be sentenced] to the vale of fire.

⁵ Then looking round on them with indignation, being grieved for the blindness of their mind, he saith to the man, Stretch forth thy hand. Accordingly he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other.

¹⁴ But Jesus, observing this, expressed displeasure, and said to them, Suffer the children to come to me, and do not hinder the; for of such is the kingdom of God.

²⁶ are you excited to anger? Do not therefore sin. Let not the sun go down on your wrath,

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,

²¹ Now I had taken your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire; and having stamped, and ground it, till it was very fine, and like dust, I threw the dust into the torrent which ran down out of the mount.

⁶ And lie brought out the bower out of the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the brook Kedron, and having burned it by the brook Kedron, he ground it to powder, and strewed the powder over the graves of the children of the people.

¹⁵ he then tore down also the altar which was at Baithel, that high altar which was erected by Jeroboam, son of Nabat, who had caused Israel to sin. Even that high altar he tore down and broke the stones thereof to pieces and pounded them to dust, and burned the bower.

³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity.

¹⁴ A bold hearted man will be satisfied with his own ways; but a good man, with his intentions.

⁹ Then Abimelech sent for Abraham and said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? Have we in any respect sinned against thee, that thou shouldst bring upon me and upon my kingdom this great sin? Thou hast done to me what no one should do.

¹⁰ And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? In a little while some person of my family might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us through ignorance.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him.

¹⁹ Whereupon Joshua said to Achar, Give glory this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession, and tell me what thou hast done, and conceal it not from me. ²⁰ And Achar answered Joshua, and said, I have indeed sinned before the Lord, the God of Israel. Thus and thus have I done. ²¹ I saw, among the spoil, a piece of tissue, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and an ingot of gold, of about fifty didrachms, and I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them. ²² Then Joshua sent messengers, who ran to the tent, in the camp, and the things were hid in his tent, and the silver under them. ²³ So they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua, and the elders of Israel who laid them before the Lord. ²⁴ Then Joshua took Achar, son of Zara, and led him up to the valley of Achor, with his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his asses, and all his flocks, and his tent, and all his goods, and all the people accompanied him. And when he had led them up to Emek-Achor, ²⁵ Joshua said to Achar, Why hast thou destroyed us? The Lord destroy thee, as at this day! Then all Israel stoned him with stones. ²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

¹⁹ Now therefore let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirreth thee up against me, let thy sacrifice be fragrant: bat if the sons of men; cursed be they before the Lord; for they have now driven me out from abiding securely in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods.

¹⁶ [Omitted]

²² And I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nabat, and like the house of Bassa son of Achia, for the provocations with which thou hast provoked me, and caused Israel to sin.

⁹ Now when they hearkened not, and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, more than those nations, which the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites; ¹⁰ then by the ministry of his servants the1 prophets, the Lord spoke saying, ¹¹ Because Manasses the king of Juda hath committed all these abominations; these evils surpassing all that the Amorites did before him, and hath caused Juda also to sin by their idols;

²⁴ And the people murmured against Moses and said, What are we to drink?

² And on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out of Egypt all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron. ³ The Israelites indeed said to them, Oh that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of flesh meat and ate bread in plenty! For you have brought us to this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger. ⁴ Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, Behold I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go and gather it day by day, that I may try them whether they will walk in my law or not.

²⁰ Notwithstanding this they hearkened not to Moses, but some left of it till the morning. And it bred worms and gave an offensive smell. On which Moses was angry with them.

²⁸ Whereupon the Lord said to Moses, How long will you refuse to hearken to my commandments and my law?

² and the people were reviling Moses and saying, Give us water that we may drink, Moses said to them, Why do you revile me? And why do you tempt the Lord? ³ Now when the people had thirsted there for water and murmured against Moses saying, How is this? Hast thou brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? ⁴ Moses cried to the Lord and said, What shall I do for this people? They are almost ready to stone me.

⁷ Remember; never forget how often thou hast provoked to wrath the Lord thy God, in the wilderness. From the day you came out of Egypt, till your coming to this place, you have gone on in a course of rebellion against the Lord.

²⁴ You have been disobedient to the commands of the Lord, from the day he made himself known to you.

²⁴ Then Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the word of the Lord, and thy orders, because I feared the people and hearkened to their voice.

⁴ He contrived mischief on his bed; he persisted in every course which was not good, and did not abhor wickedness.

¹⁶ for they cannot sleep. Unless they do evil; their sleep is taken from them and they cannot lie down to rest.

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.

¹² And Adam said, "The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree and I did eat." ¹³ And the Lord God said to the woman, "Why hast thou done this?" And the woman said, "The serpent seduced me and I ate."

²⁹ But he, wishing to justify himself, said, And who is my neighbour?

¹⁰ as it is written, "There is none righteous, no, not one.

¹⁰ And he said to him, "I heard the sound of thee walking in the garden and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself."

⁴ And when the people heard these evil tidings they mourned bitterly. ⁵ Whereupon the Lord said to the Israelites, You are a stiff necked people, take care that I bring not another stroke on you and utterly consume you. Now therefore strip off the robes of your glory and your ornaments and I will shew thee what I will do to thee. ⁶ So the Israelites stript off their ornaments and took down the barrier from the mountain Choreb

²⁰ Even against Aaron, his wrath was kindled to destroy him; But I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

¹⁹ Because the Lord humbled Juda on the account of Achaz, king of Juda, because he had greatly apostatised from the Lord,

³ Thy shame shall be exposed; thy nakedness shall be seen. This vengeance I will take on thy account and no more deliver thee up to men.

⁶³ that thou mayst remember and be ashamed, and never more be able to open thy mouth, because of thy confusion when I make a complete atonement for thee according to all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

² And many of them who sleep in mounds of earth shall be raised up, some for everlasting life and some for disgrace and everlasting shame.

³ That I may do this I will strip her naked, and reduce her to the state she was in at her birth. I will indeed make her desolate, and order her to a land without water and kill her with thirst,

¹¹ Sennaar, who dwelt at ease in her cities, went not forth to bewail a neighbouring house; from you she shall receive a painful wound.

²¹ what fruit therefore had you then from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

¹⁷ because thou sayest, "I am rich and become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. ¹⁸ I advise thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayst be rich, and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayst see.

¹⁵ [Behold my coming is as a thief [cometh]: Happy he who watcheth and keepeth his garments that he may not walk naked and expose his shame.]

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?

¹¹ and there stood by him one of the servants of Joab, who said, Whoever is for Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.

³² Whereupon he looked up to the window, and when he saw her he said, Who art thou? Come down to me. Then two chamberlains looked out at him

³⁰ He who is not for me is against me; and he who gathereth not with me, scattereth.

²⁶ Moses stood at the gate of the camp and said, Who is for the Lord? Let him come to me. Upon which all the sons of Levi joined him.

²⁹ For Moses said to them, Fill your hands to-day for the Lord, every one with his son or with his brother that a blessing may be bestowed on you.

⁵ Then Moses said to the tribes of Israel, Kill ye, every one, him of his family, who hath consecrated himself to Belphegor.

⁷ Upon seeing this, Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, started up from among the congregation, and taking a javelin in his hand, ⁸ went after the man; the Israelite, into the bed chamber, and ran them both through, the man, the Israelite, quite through, and the woman into her belly. Whereupon the plague stopped from the children of Israel. ⁹ Now they who had died of the plague were twenty four thousand. ¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, ¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel. ¹² Therefore say, Behold I give him the covenant of peace.

⁸ And of Levi he said Assign ye to Levi his manifestations, And his truth to this man for the Holy One Whom they tried at Temptation. Whom they reviled at the water of Contradiction. ⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant.

²⁶ If any one cometh to me, and slighteth not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, nay, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

¹⁶ So that henceforth we know no one after the flesh. Nay though we indeed knew Christ after the flesh, yet we now know him so no more.

³² and the earth opened; and it swallowed up them, and their households, and all the men who were with Kore, and all their cattle. ³³ And they, and all that belonged to them, went down alive to the mansions of the dead, and the earth covered them. And they were destroyed from among the congregation. ³⁴ And all the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry; for they said, Perhaps the earth may swallow us up. ³⁵ And there went forth a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men, who were offering incense!

⁴¹ On the next day, when the people murmured against Moses and Aaron, saying, You have slain the people of the Lord;

⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant.

⁴ Now you must know, since I sent this command to you to be my covenant with the Levites, saith the Lord Almighty, ⁵ that my covenant of life and peace was with him; and I gave it to him that I might be greatly feared and that he might be awed at my name. ⁶ The law of truth was in his mouth: and iniquity should not have been found in his lips. Walking uprightly with me in peace, he indeed turned many from iniquity.

⁸ Nor let us commit fornication as some of them did, and there fell in one day twenty three thousand:

² For if the word spoken by messengers was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received as its reward a correspondent requital, ³ how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation, which was first published by the Lord, and confirmed for us by them who heard him,

¹¹ Phineas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, hath stayed my wrath from Israel, by shewing a zeal for me among them, so that in my jealousy I have not utterly consumed the children of Israel. ¹² Therefore say, Behold I give him the covenant of peace. ¹³ It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, an everlasting covenant of the priests' office, because he shewed a zeal for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

⁶ And if thy brother, the son of thy father, or of thy mother, or thine own son, or daughter, or the wife in thy bosom, or a friend who is as thine own soul, speak privately to thee saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; ⁷ any of the gods of the nations around you, of those near thee, or those far distant from thee, from one end of the earth to the other; ⁸ thou shalt not consent, nor hearken to him; neither shall thine eye pity him, nor shalt thou spare him, nor conceal him. ⁹ Thou shalt surely inform against him, and thy hands shall be upon him, among the foremost, to kill him, and afterwards the hands of the whole people. ¹⁰ And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall be put to death, because he sought to make thee apostatise from the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt; out of the house of bondage. ¹¹ So all Israel will hear, and be afraid, and no more proceed to do any such wickedness as this among you.

⁹ With regard to him who saith to his father and to his mother I have not beheld thee, And hath not acknowledged his brethren, And hath renounced his own children, He it is who hath observed thine Oracles And diligently kept thy covenant. ¹⁰ Let them explain thy rules of rectitude for Jacob And thy law for Israel: Let them lay incense continually, When thou art angry, on thine altar.

¹⁸ and the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said to thee, Go and destroy utterly. Thou shalt slay those who have sinned against me; namely Amelek; and thou shalt fight against them until thou hast totally destroyed them. ¹⁹ Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but rush upon the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord? ²⁰ And Saul said to Samuel, Because I hearkened to the voice of the people. But I have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag king of Amelek, and utterly destroyed Amelek, ²¹ and the people have taken of the spoils, flocks and herds, as first fruits of the destruction, to sacrifice them before the Lord our God, at Galgal. ²² And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in whole burnt offerings, and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold obedience is better than good sacrifice; and to hearken, is better than the fat of rams.

³ To do justice and to adhere to truth are more acceptable to God than the blood of victims.

¹² Now therefore saith the Lord your God, turn to me with your whole heart, and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. ¹³ Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn to the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, long suffering and full of compassion, and relenteth at evils. ¹⁴ Who knoweth but he will turn and relent, and leave behind him a blessing and a sacrifice and a libation for the Lord your God.

³ And it shall come to pass that if any man shall still prophesy, even his father and his mother who begot him will say to him, Thou shalt not live, because thou hast spoken lies in the name of the Lord. And his father and his mother who begot him will bind him when he prophesieth.

³⁷ He who loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me. And he who loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

³¹ So Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord! this people have committed a great sin and have made for themselves gods of gold. ³² Now therefore, if thou indeed forgivest this their sin, forgive it: but if not: blot me out of thy book which thou hast written.

⁴⁷ So Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran into the congregation; [Now the destruction among the people had already begun] and he threw on the incense, and made atonement for the people,

¹³ It shall be to him, and to his seed after him, an everlasting covenant of the priests' office, because he shewed a zeal for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.

¹⁷ So that the sin of these young men was very great before the Lord; because they set at naught the sacrifice of the Lord.

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,

²³ And as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.

⁹ Why then hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast slain Ourias the Chettite with the sword, and taken his wife to be thy wife. Thou hast indeed slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

¹² Perhaps the Lord may look on my affliction, and return me good for his cursing this day.

²¹ Because Israel, besides revolting from the house of David, made Jeroboam son of Nabat king; therefore Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord, and caused them to commit a great sin;

⁷ Now after the Lord had spoken all these things to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz, the Thaimanite, Thou hast sinned and thy two friends. For you have not spoken any thing true before me, as my servant Job hath. ⁸ Now therefore take seven young bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he will make an offering for you; and my servant Job will pray for you. For him only I will accept; for were it not for his sake, I would destroy you, because you have not spoken what is true against my servant Job.

¹⁵ We have hated evil and loved good; therefore reestablish judgment in the gates, that the Lord God Almighty may have compassion on the remnant of Joseph.

⁴⁷ For what reason? I tell thee. Her sins which are many, are forgiven her; therefore her love is great. But he to whom little is forgiven, hath little love.

¹⁸ I will rise and go to my father, and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight,

³ [for I even I myself wished the followers of Christ to be devoted to destruction,] for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,

¹³ From this curse of the law Christ hath redeemed us, being made a curse for us; [for it is written, "Cursed, is every one who is suspended on a cross,"]

²⁵ with meekness instructing opposers: perhaps God may grant them a change of mind so as to acknowledge the truth,

⁴ Thou shalt not make for thyself an idol, nor the likeness of any thing, which is in the heaven above, or in the earth below, or in the waters under the earth;

³⁰ And on the following day Moses said to the people, You have committed a great sin, now therefore I will go up to God that I may appease him for this sin of yours.

²⁸ And Moses was there before the Lord forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant; the ten commandments.

¹⁸ Then I made supplication before the Lord, a second time, as I had done before, forty days and forty nights; [I neither ate bread nor drank water]; for your sins which you had committed by doing evil in the sight of the Lord God, to provoke him to wrath. ¹⁹ Even now I tremble on account of the wrath and indignation. For the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly. But the Lord hearkened to me at that time also.

⁶ I said: Lord, I blush, and am ashamed to lift up, O my God, my face to thee; because our iniquities are multiplied over our head, and our transgressions are heaped up to heaven. ⁷ From the days of our fathers we are in great transgression, even to this day. And for our inquities, we and our kings and our children, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the nations, to the sword and to captivity, and to spoiling, and to confusion of face, as at this day.

¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, thou art gracious; for a remnant of us have escaped, as at this day. Behold we are before thee in our transgressions, though there is no standing before thee for this.

³³ Thou indeed art righteous in all that have come upon us. For thou hast acted with truth; but we have sinned greatly.

⁵ we have committed iniquity; we have transgressed and apostatised and turned away from thy commandments, and from thy judgments,

⁸ In thee, Lord, is our righteousness. Though to us belongeth confusion of face; to our kings, and our chiefs and our fathers, who have sinned against thee:

¹¹ and all Israel transgressed thy law, and declined to hearken to thy voice; therefore upon us came the curse and the execration which is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. Because we sinned against him,

¹⁰ Now therefore let me alone, that being provoked to wrath against them I may utterly destroy them, and I will make thee a great nation.

¹⁹ forgive the sin of this people according to thy great mercy, as thou hast been gracious to them from Egypt even to this time.

¹⁹ Therefore when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies around thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possession, thou shalt blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Thou must not forget.

²⁰ God will not be propitious to him, but most assuredly the anger of the Lord, and his indignation, will then be kindled against that man; and all the curses of this covenant, which are written in this book, shall cleave to him; and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.

⁸ O God, to thee I have unfolded my life: thou hast placed my tears before thee.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be enrolled with the righteous.

¹⁶ When my substance was in the lowest parts of the earth; thine eyes beheld the unwrought part of me. When on thy book all shall be enrolled; they will day by day be fashioned.

⁹ And I will stretch forth my hand against these prophets, who see falsehoods and prophesy vanities: they shall not be in the school of my people nor enrolled in the enrollment of the house of Israel; nor shall they enter into the land of Israel and they shall know that I am the Lord.

¹⁸ incline, my God, thine ear and hear. Open thine eyes and behold our desolation and that of thy city which is called by thy name. For we do not for our own righteousness present our piteous case before thee; but we cast ourselves upon thy tender mercies, Lord, which are many. ¹⁹ O Lord hear! O Lord, be appeased! Attend, Lord! Defer not, my God, for thine own sake! for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

¹ And at that time Michael the great chief, who hath been over the children of thy people will stand up, and there will be a time of tribulation; a tribulation such as hath not been since there was a nation on the earth even to this time. At that time all thy people who are enrolled in the book shall be saved.

² and when they had completely devoured the grass of the land, I said, Lord, Lord, be appeased. Who shall raise up Jacob? Because he is very small,

³⁴ Whereupon Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. Then dividing his garments in shares they cast lots.

³ And I intreat thee also, my faithful colleague, assist them; for they were fellow labourers of mine in the gospel, with Clement in particular, and the rest of mv fellow labourers whose names are in the book of life.

⁵ He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his angels.

⁸ The beast which thou sawest was and is not and is soon to ascend out of the bottomless gulf and go to destruction; and the inhabitants of the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will wonder when they see the beast, because it was and is not although indeed it is.

²⁷ And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing which defileth or maketh an abomination or [uttereth] a lie; none but they who are enrolled in the Lamb's book of life.

¹⁹ and if any one taketh away from the words of the book of this prophecy God will take away his portion of the tree of life and of the holy city which are written of in this book.

³⁰ And every person who shall do any work on that day, shall be destroyed from among the people.

⁵ thou hast rebuked nations, and the wicked one is destroyed. Thou hast blotted out their Name forever and ever.

¹³ Let his children be for destruction; In one generation let his name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

⁴ for all souls are mine. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sinneth it shall die.

⁸ and it is to be worshipped by all the inhabitants of the earth whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

¹² And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened; and another book was opened namely that of Life. And the dead were judged by the writings in those books according to their works.

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,

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 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 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.

²⁷ How long shall I bear with this wicked congregation? I have heard what they murmur before me; the murmuring of the Israelites which they have uttered concerning you, ²⁸ Say to them, As I live, saith the Lord, As you have spoken in my hearing, so will I actually do to you. ²⁹ In this wilderness your carcasses shall fall; the whole review of you; even all of you who have been reviewed, from twenty years old, and upwards, who have murmured against me. ³⁰ None of you shall come into that land, respecting which I stretched forth my hand to cause you to dwell therein, save only Chaleb son of Jephonne, and Joshua son of Nave.

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.

³⁵ In the day of vengeance I will requite, When their foot shall be supplanted. Because the day of destruction is nigh for them, Therefore at hand are the things prepared for you.

⁸ O Lord, our God, thou didst hearken to them; To them thou wast a God propitious; though executing vengeance on all the people's devices.

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.

⁹ Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and on such a nation as this shall not my soul be avenged?

²⁹ shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and on such a nation as this shall not my soul be avenged?

¹⁴ That on the day when I punish Israel for his impieties, I will execute vengeance also on the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

³⁵ that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth; from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

⁴ Or dost thou contemn the riches of his gentleness and forbearance and long suffering, not considering that the gentleness of God is leading thee to a reformation? 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

²⁵ And when Moses saw that the people were scattered abroad; for Aaron had scattered and made them a derision to their enemies,

⁹ Why then hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast slain Ourias the Chettite with the sword, and taken his wife to be thy wife. Thou hast indeed slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. ¹⁰ Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house. Because thou hast despised me, and taken the wife of Ourias the Chettite to be thy wife,

³ Then Judas, who had delivered him up, finding that he was condemned, repented and carried back the thirty shekels of silver to the chief priests and the elders, ⁴ saying, I have sinned in having betrayed innocent blood To which they replied, What is that to us? Look thou to that. ⁵ Thereupon he threw down the money in the temple, and withdrew, and went and strangled himself. ⁶ And the chief priests, taking the money, said; It is not lawful to put it into the holy treasury, seeing it is the price of blood. ⁷ So, having consulted together, they bought with it the pottor's field for the burial of strangers.

¹⁸ [Now this man indeed had purchased! a field with the reward of his iniquity, and, falling on his face, had burst asunder, and all his bowels gushed out;