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1 01 Genesis 017 Abraham
001- And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
002- And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
003- And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
004- As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
005- Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
006- And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
007- And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
008- And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
009- And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
010- This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
011- And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
012- And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
013- He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
014- And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
015- And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
016- And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
017- Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
018- And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
019- And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
020- And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
021- But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
022- And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
023- And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
024- And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
025- And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
026- In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
027- And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
2 01 Genesis 018 Abraham
001- And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
002- And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
003- And said, My LORD, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
004- Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
005- And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
006- And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
007- And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
008- And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
009- And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
010- And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
011- Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
012- Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
013- And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
014- Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
015- Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
016- And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
017- And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
018- Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
019- For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
020- And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
021- I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
022- And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
023- And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
024- Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
025- That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
026- And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
027- And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
028- Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
029- And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
030- And he said unto him, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
031- And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.
032- And he said, Oh let not the LORD be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
033- And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
3 01 Genesis 019 Abraham
001- And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
002- And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
003- And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
004- But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
005- And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
006- And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
007- And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
008- Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
009- And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
010- But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
011- And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
012- And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
013- For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
014- And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
015- And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
016- And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
017- And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
018- And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my LORD:
019- Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
020- Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
021- And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.
022- Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
023- The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
024- Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
025- And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
026- But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
027- And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
028- And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
029- And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
030- And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
031- And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
032- Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
033- And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
034- And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
035- And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
036- Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
037- And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
038- And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
4 01 Genesis 020 Abraham
001- And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
002- And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
003- But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife.
004- But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
005- Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
006- And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
007- Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
008- Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
009- Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
010- And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
011- And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
012- And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
013- And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
014- And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
015- And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
016- And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.
017- So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
018- For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
5 01 Genesis 021 Abraham
001- And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
002- For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
003- And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
004- And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
005- And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
006- And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
007- And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
008- And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
009- And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
010- Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
011- And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
012- And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
013- And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
014- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
015- And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
016- And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
017- And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
018- Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
019- And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
020- And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.
021- And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
022- And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:
023- Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
024- And Abraham said, I will swear.
025- And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
026- And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
027- And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
028- And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
029- And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?
030- And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
031- Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
032- Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
033- And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
034- And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
6 01 Genesis 022 Abraham
001- And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
002- And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
003- And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
004- Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
005- And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
006- And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
007- And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
008- And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
009- And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
010- And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
011- And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
012- And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
013- And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
014- And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
015- And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
016- And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
017- That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
018- And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
019- So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
020- And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
021- Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
022- And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
023- And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
024- And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
7 01 Genesis 023 Abraham
001- And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
002- And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
003- And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
004- I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
005- And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
006- Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
007- And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
008- And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
009- That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
010- And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
011- Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
012- And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
013- And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
014- And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
015- My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
016- And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
017- And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
018- Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
019- And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
020- And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
8 01 Genesis 024 Abraham
001- And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
002- And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:
003- And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
004- But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
005- And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
006- And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
007- The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
008- And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.
009- And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
010- And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
011- And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
012- And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham.
013- Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
014- And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed kindness unto my master.
015- And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
016- And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
017- And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
018- And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
019- And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
020- And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
021- And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
022- And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
023- And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?
024- And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, which she bare unto Nahor.
025- She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
026- And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.
027- And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master's brethren.
028- And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother's house these things.
029- And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
030- And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
031- And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
032- And the man came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.
033- And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
034- And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
035- And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
036- And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
037- And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:
038- But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
039- And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
040- And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
041- Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
042- And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
043- Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
044- And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
045- And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
046- And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.
047- And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
048- And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
049- And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
050- Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
051- Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
052- And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he worshipped the LORD, bowing himself to the earth.
053- And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
054- And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
055- And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.
056- And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.
057- And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
058- And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
059- And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
060- And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
061- And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
062- And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.
063- And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.
064- And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
065- For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
066- And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.
067- And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
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001- Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
002- And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
003- And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
004- And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
005- And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
006- But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
007- And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
008- Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
009- And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;
010- The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
011- And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
012- Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham:
013- And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
014- And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
015- Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
016- These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
017- And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
018- And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
019- And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:
020- And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
021- And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
022- And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.
023- And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
024- And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
025- And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
026- And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
027- And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents.
028- And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
029- And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
030- And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
031- And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
032- And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
033- And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
034- Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.
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001- And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
002- And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
003- Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
004- And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
005- Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
006- And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
007- And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
008- And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
009- And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
010- And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
011- And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
012- Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
013- And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
014- For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
015- For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
016- And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
017- And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
018- And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
019- And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
020- And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
021- And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
022- And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
023- And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
024- And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
025- And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
026- Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
027- And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
028- And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
029- That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
030- And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
031- And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
032- And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
033- And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
034- And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
035- Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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001- And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
002- Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
003- And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
004- And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
005- And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
006- When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
007- And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
008- And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
009- Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
010- And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
011- And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
012- And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
013- And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
014- And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
015- And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
016- And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
017- And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
018- And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
019- And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
020- And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
021- So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:
022- And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
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001- And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
002- And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
003- And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
004- And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
005- And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
006- And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
007- And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
008- If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ring-streaked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ring-streaked.
009- Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
010- And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
011- And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
012- And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ring-streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
013- I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.
014- And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
015- Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
016- For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
017- Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
018- And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
019- And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
020- And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
021- So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
022- And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
023- And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
024- And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
025- Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
026- And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?
027- Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
028- And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.
029- It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
030- And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
031- And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
032- With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
033- And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
034- Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
035- And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched but found not the images.
036- And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
037- Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
038- This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
039- That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
040- Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
041- Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
042- Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
043- And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?
044- Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
045- And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
046- And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
047- And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
048- And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
049- And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
050- If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
051- And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
052- This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
053- The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.
054- Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
055- And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
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001- And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
002- And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
003- And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
004- And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
005- And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.
006- And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
007- Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;
008- And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.
009- And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
010- I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
011- Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
012- And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
013- And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
014- Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
015- Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
016- And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
017- And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?
018- Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
019- And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.
020- And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
021- So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
022- And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
023- And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
024- And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
025- And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
026- And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
027- And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
028- And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
029- And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
030- And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
031- And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
032- Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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001- And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
002- Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
003- And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
004- And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
005- And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
006- So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
007- And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
008- But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
009- And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.
010- And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
011- And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
012- And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
013- And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
014- And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
015- And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
016- And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.
017- And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
018- And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
019- And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
020- And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
021- And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
022- And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
023- The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
024- The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
025- And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
026- And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
027- And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arba, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
028- And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
029- And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
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001- And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
002- And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
003- And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
004- And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
005- And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
006- And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
007- And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
008- And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
009- And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
010- Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
011- And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath showed me also thy seed.
012- And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
013- And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
014- And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
015- And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
016- The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
017- And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
018- And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
019- And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
020- And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
021- And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
022- Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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001- And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
002- Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
003- Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
004- Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
005- Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
006- O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall.
007- Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
008- Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.
009- Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
010- The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
011- Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
012- His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
013- Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
014- Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
015- And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
016- Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
017- Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
018- I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
019- Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
020- Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
021- Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
022- Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
023- The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
024- But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
025- Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
026- The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
027- Benjamin shall raven as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
028- All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
029- And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
030- In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
031- There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
032- The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
033- And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
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001- And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
002- And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
003- And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
004- And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
005- My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
006- And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.
007- And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
008- And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.
009- And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
010- And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
011- And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
012- And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
013- For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
014- And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
015- And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.
016- And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,
017- So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
018- And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
019- And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?
020- But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
021- Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
022- And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
023- And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
024- And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
025- And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
026- So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
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001- And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
002- And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
003- And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
004- And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
005- And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
006- And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
007- Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
008- And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.
009- And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the women took the child, and nursed it.
010- And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.
011- And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
012- And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
013- And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
014- And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
015- Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
016- Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
017- And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
018- And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
019- And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
020- And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
021- And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
022- And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
023- And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
024- And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
025- And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
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001- Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
002- And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
003- And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
004- And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
005- And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
006- Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
007- And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
008- And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
009- Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
010- Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
011- And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
012- And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
013- And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
014- And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
015- And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
016- Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
017- And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
018- And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
019- And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
020- And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
021- And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.
022- But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
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001- And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
002- And the LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.
003- And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
004- And the LORD said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand:
005- That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.
006- And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.
007- And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.
008- And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
009- And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
010- And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
011- And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
012- Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
013- And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
014- And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
015- And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
016- And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
017- And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
018- And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
019- And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
020- And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
021- And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
022- And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
023- And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.
024- And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.
025- Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
026- So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
027- And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
028- And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
029- And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel:
030- And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
031- And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.
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001- Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
002- And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
003- And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
004- And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
005- And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
006- Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:
007- And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
008- And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
009- And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
010- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
011- Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his land.
012- And Moses spake before the LORD, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
013- And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
014- These be the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel; Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi: these be the families of Reuben.
015- And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
016- And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
017- The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
018- And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
019- And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.
020- And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
021- And the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
022- And the sons of Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.
023- And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she bare him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
024- And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korhites.
025- And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
026- These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies.
027- These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
028- And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,
029- That the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, I am the LORD: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say unto thee.
030- And Moses said before the LORD, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?
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001- And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
002- And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
003- And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
004- And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
005- And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.
006- And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
007- And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
008- They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
009- And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
010- Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
011- And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
012- Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.
013- Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
014- And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
015- And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
016- And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
017- And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.
018- And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
019- And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
020- And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
021- And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
022- And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
023- For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
024- And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
025- And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
026- Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD's side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.
027- And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
028- And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
029- For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
030- And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.
031- And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
032- Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
033- And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.
034- Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
035- And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
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001- And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
002- And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
003- Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
004- And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
005- For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
006- And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
007- And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
008- And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
009- And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
010- And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.
011- And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.
012- And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
013- Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
014- And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
015- And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
016- For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
017- And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
018- And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory.
019- And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
020- And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
021- And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
022- And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
023- And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
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001- Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
002- Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
003- If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
004- Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
005- And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
006- And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
007- And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
008- And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
009- For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
010- And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
011- And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
012- And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
013- I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
014- But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
015- And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
016- I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
017- And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
018- And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
019- And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
020- And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
021- And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
022- I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
023- And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
024- Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
025- And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
026- And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
027- And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
028- Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
029- And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
030- And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
031- And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
032- And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
033- And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
034- Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
035- As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
036- And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
037- And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
038- And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
039- And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
040- If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
041- And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
042- Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
043- The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
044- And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.
045- But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
046- These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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001- Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
002- The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
003- Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
004- Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
005- Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
006- And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
007- And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
008- Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
009- For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
010- And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
011- Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
012- Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
013- And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
014- And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
015- For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
016- And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
017- But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
018- We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
019- For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
020- And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
021- And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
022- And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
023- But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
024- Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
025- And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
026- Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
027- But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
028- So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
029- And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
030- But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
031- And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
032- We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
033- And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
034- And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
035- And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
036- And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
037- And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
038- And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
039- And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
040- And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
041- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
042- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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001- These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
002- (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
003- And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
004- After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
005- On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
006- The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:
007- Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
008- Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
009- And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
010- The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
011- (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
012- How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
013- Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
014- And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
015- So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
016- And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.
017- Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
018- And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
019- And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
020- And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
021- Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
022- And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
023- And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
024- And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
025- And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the LORD our God doth give us.
026- Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God:
027- And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
028- Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
029- Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
030- The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
031- And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
032- Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
033- Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
034- And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
035- Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
036- Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD.
037- Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
038- But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
039- Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
040- But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
041- Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
042- And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
043- So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
044- And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.
045- And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
046- So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
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001- Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
002- That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
003- Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
004- Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
005- And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
006- And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
007- And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
008- And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
009- And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
010- And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
011- And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
012- Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
013- Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
014- Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
015- (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
016- Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
017- Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
018- And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
019- To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
020- And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
021- Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
022- And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
023- And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
024- And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
025- And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
28 05 Deuteronomy 009 Abraham
001- Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,
002- A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!
003- Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
004- Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
005- Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
006- Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
007- Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
008- Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.
009- When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
010- And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
011- And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
012- And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
013- Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
014- Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
015- So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
016- And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
017- And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
018- And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
019- For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also.
020- And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
021- And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
022- And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath.
023- Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
024- Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.
025- Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
026- I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
027- Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
028- Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
029- Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
29 05 Deuteronomy 029 Abraham
001- These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
002- And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
003- The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
004- Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
005- And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
006- Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
007- And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
008- And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
009- Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
010- Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
011- Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
012- That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
013- That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
014- Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
015- But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
016- (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;
017- And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
018- Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
019- And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
020- The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
021- And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
022- So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
023- And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
024- Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
025- Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
026- For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
027- And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
028- And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
029- The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
30 05 Deuteronomy 030 Abraham
001- And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
002- And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
003- That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
004- If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
005- And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
006- And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
007- And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
008- And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
009- And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
010- If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
011- For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
012- It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
013- Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
014- But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
015- See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
016- In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
017- But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
018- I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
019- I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
020- That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
31 05 Deuteronomy 034 Abraham
001- And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
002- And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
003- And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
004- And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
005- So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
006- And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
007- And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
008- And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
009- And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
010- And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,
011- In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
012- And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
32 06 Joshua 024 Abraham
001- And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
002- And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
003- And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
004- And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
005- I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
006- And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
007- And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
008- And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
009- Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
010- But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
011- And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
012- And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
013- And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
014- Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
015- And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
016- And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
017- For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
018- And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
019- And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
020- If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
021- And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
022- And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
023- Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
024- And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
025- So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
026- And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
027- And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
028- So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
029- And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
030- And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
031- And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
032- And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
033- And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
33 11 1 Kings 018 Abraham
001- And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
002- And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
003- And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
004- For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
005- And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
006- So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
007- And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
008- And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
009- And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
010- As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
011- And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
012- And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
013- Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
014- And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.
015- And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself unto him to day.
016- So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
017- And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel?
018- And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
019- Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
020- So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
021- And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
022- Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
023- Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
024- And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
025- And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
026- And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
027- And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
028- And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
029- And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
030- And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
031- And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
032- And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
033- And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
034- And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
035- And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
036- And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
037- Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
038- Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
039- And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.
040- And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
041- And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
042- So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
043- And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
044- And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
045- And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
046- And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
34 12 2 Kings 013 Abraham
001- In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
002- And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
003- And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
004- And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.
005- (And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.
006- Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
007- Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
008- Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
009- And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.
010- In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
011- And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
012- And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
013- And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
014- Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
015- And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.
016- And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands.
017- And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
018- And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.
019- And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.
020- And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.
021- And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
022- But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
023- And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
024- So Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
025- And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
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001- Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
002- Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
003- Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
004- Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
005- The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
006- And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
007- And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
008- The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
009- And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
010- And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
011- And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
012- And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (of whom came the Philistines,) and Caphthorim.
013- And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,
014- The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
015- And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
016- And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
017- The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
018- And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
019- And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother's name was Joktan.
020- And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
021- Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,
022- And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
023- And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
024- Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
025- Eber, Peleg, Reu,
026- Serug, Nahor, Terah,
027- Abram; the same is Abraham.
028- The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
029- These are their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
030- Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
031- Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
032- Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
033- And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
034- And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
035- The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
036- The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
037- The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
038- And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
039- And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.
040- The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. and the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.
041- The sons of Anah; Dishon. And the sons of Dishon; Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
042- The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
043- Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
044- And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
045- And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
046- And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
047- And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
048- And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
049- And when Shaul was dead, Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
050- And when Baalhanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
051- Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,
052- Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
053- Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
054- Duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom.
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001- So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
002- And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
003- And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.
004- And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
005- Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
006- Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
007- Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
008- Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
009- Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
010- Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
011- Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
012- Remember his marvelous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
013- O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
014- He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
015- Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;
016- Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
017- And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
018- Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
019- When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
020- And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
021- He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
022- Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
023- Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; show forth from day to day his salvation.
024- Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations.
025- For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
026- For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
027- Glory and honor are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.
028- Give unto the LORD, ye kindred of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
029- Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
030- Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
031- Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth.
032- Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
033- Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
034- O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
035- And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
036- Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
037- So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:
038- And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
039- And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
040- To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;
041- And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;
042- And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
043- And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
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001- Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
002- Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
003- Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.
004- Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
005- The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the LORD?
006- Then the chief of the fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers of the king's work, offered willingly,
007- And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
008- And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
009- Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
010- Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
011- Thine, O LORD is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
012- Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
013- Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
014- But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
015- For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
016- O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
017- I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
018- O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:
019- And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision.
020- And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and worshipped the LORD, and the king.
021- And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
022- And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.
023- Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
024- And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
025- And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
026- Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
027- And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
028- And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
029- Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
030- With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
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001- It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
002- Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
003- And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
004- And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
005- And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
006- And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
007- Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?
008- And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
009- If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
010- And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
011- Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
012- O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
013- And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
014- Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
015- And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
016- To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
017- Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
018- And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
019- And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
020- And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
021- And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.
022- And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
023- For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
024- And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
025- And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
026- And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Berachah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of the same place was called, The valley of Berachah, unto this day.
027- Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the LORD had made them to rejoice over their enemies.
028- And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
029- And the fear of God was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard that the LORD fought against the enemies of Israel.
030- So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
031- And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.
032- And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.
033- Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
034- Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
035- And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
036- And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Eziongaber.
037- Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
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001- And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
002- For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.
003- For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
004- And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
005- So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
006- So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
007- And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
008- Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
009- For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
010- So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
011- Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
012- Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
013- And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
014- And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
015- Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
016- And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.
017- For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
018- For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one
019- That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
020- And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
021- And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.
022- And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
023- And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.
024- For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
025- And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
026- So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
027- Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
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001- Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.
002- And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
003- And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.
004- Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.
005- Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
006- Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
007- Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
008- And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
009- And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
010- And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
011- And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
012- Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
013- Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
014- And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
015- And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
016- But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments,
017- And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
018- Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
019- Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
020- Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
021- Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
022- Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
023- Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
024- So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
025- And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
026- Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
027- Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
028- But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;
029- And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
030- Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
031- Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
032- Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.
033- Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
034- Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.
035- For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
036- Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
037- And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
038- And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
41 19 Psalms 047 Abraham
001- O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
002- For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
003- He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
004- He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
005- God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
006- Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises.
007- For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.
008- God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
009- The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
42 19 Psalms 105 Abraham
001- O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
002- Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
003- Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
004- Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
005- Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
006- O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
007- He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
008- He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
009- Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
010- And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
011- Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
012- When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
013- When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
014- He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
015- Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
016- Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
017- He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
018- Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
019- Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
020- The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
021- He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
022- To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
023- Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
024- And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
025- He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
026- He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
027- They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
028- He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
029- He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
030- Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
031- He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
032- He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
033- He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
034- He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
035- And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
036- He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
037- He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
038- Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
039- He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
040- The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
041- He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
042- For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
043- And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
044- And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
045- That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
43 23 Isaiah 029 Abraham
001- Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
002- Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel.
003- And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
004- And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
005- Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
006- Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
007- And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
008- It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
009- Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
010- For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
011- And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
012- And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
013- Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
014- Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
015- Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
016- Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?
017- Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
018- And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.
019- The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
020- For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:
021- That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
022- Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
023- But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
024- They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
44 23 Isaiah 041 Abraham
001- Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.
002- Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
003- He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
004- Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.
005- The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
006- They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
007- So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
008- But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
009- Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
010- Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
011- Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.
012- Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
013- For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
014- Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
015- Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
016- Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
017- When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
018- I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
019- I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
020- That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
021- Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
022- Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.
023- Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
024- Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
025- I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
026- Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
027- The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.
028- For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
029- Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
45 23 Isaiah 051 Abraham
001- Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
002- Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
003- For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
004- Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
005- My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
006- Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
007- Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
008- For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
009- Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
010- Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
011- Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
012- I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
013- And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
014- The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
015- But I am the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts is his name.
016- And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
017- Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
018- There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
019- These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
020- Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
021- Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
022- Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
023- But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
46 23 Isaiah 063 Abraham
001- Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
002- Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
003- I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
004- For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
005- And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
006- And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
007- I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
008- For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
009- In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
010- But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
011- Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
012- That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
013- That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
014- As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
015- Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
016- Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
017- O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
018- The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
019- We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
47 24 Jeremiah 033 Abraham
001- Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
002- Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
003- Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
004- For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
005- They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
006- Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
007- And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
008- And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
009- And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
010- Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
011- The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
012- Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
013- In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
014- Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
015- In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
016- In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
017- For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
018- Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
019- And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
020- Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
021- Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
022- As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
023- Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
024- Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
025- Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
026- Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
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001- Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
002- Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
003- If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
004- Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
005- He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
006- But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
007- So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
008- When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
009- Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
010- Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
011- Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
012- Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
013- When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
014- Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
015- If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
016- None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
017- Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
018- When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
019- But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
020- Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
021- And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
022- Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
023- Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
024- Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
025- Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
026- Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
027- Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.
028- For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.
029- Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
030- Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the LORD.
031- And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
032- And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
033- And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
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001- Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
002- The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
003- That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
004- The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
005- Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
006- For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
007- Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
008- Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
009- I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
010- Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
011- In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.
012- In that day also he shall come even to thee from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
013- Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
014- Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
015- According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.
016- The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
017- They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
018- Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
019- He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
020- Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
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001- The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
002- Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
003- And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
004- And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
005- And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;
006- And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;
007- And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
008- And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
009- And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
010- And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;
011- And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon:
012- And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;
013- And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
014- And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;
015- And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;
016- And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
017- So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.
018- Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
019- Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
020- But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
021- And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
022- Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
023- Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
024- Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
025- And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
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001- In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
002- And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
003- For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
004- And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
005- Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
006- And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
007- But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
008- Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
009- And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
010- And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
011- I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
012- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
013- Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
014- But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
015- And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
016- And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
017- And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
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001- When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
002- And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
003- And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
004- And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
005- And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,
006- And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
007- And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
008- The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
009- For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
010- When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
011- And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
012- But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
013- And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.
014- And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.
015- And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
016- When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
017- That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
018- Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side.
019- And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
020- And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
021- And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
022- But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
023- And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
024- And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
025- And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
026- And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
027- But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
028- And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
029- And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
030- And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
031- So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
032- And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.
033- And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.
034- And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
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001- And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
002- The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,
003- And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
004- Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
005- But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:
006- And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
007- But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
008- Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
009- Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
010- So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
011- And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
012- And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
013- Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
014- For many are called, but few are chosen.
015- Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
016- And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.
017- Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
018- But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
019- Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.
020- And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
021- They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.
022- When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
023- The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
024- Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
025- Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:
026- Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.
027- And last of all the woman died also.
028- Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
029- Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
030- For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
031- But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,
032- I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
033- And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
034- But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
035- Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
036- Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
037- Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
038- This is the first and great commandment.
039- And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
040- On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
041- While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
042- Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
043- He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
044- The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
045- If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
046- And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
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001- And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
002- And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
003- And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
004- And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
005- And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.
006- Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
007- But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's.
008- And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.
009- What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.
010- And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
011- This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
012- And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.
013- And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
014- And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
015- Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
016- And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
017- And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.
018- Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
019- Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man's brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
020- Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.
021- And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.
022- And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.
023- In the resurrection therefore, when they shall rise, whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.
024- And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
025- For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
026- And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
027- He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
028- And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
029- And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
030- And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
031- And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
032- And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
033- And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
034- And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
035- And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
036- For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
037- David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.
038- And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
039- And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
040- Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
041- And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
042- And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
043- And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:
044- For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
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001- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
002- Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
003- It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
004- That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
005- THERE was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
006- And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
007- And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
008- And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course,
009- According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.
010- And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
011- And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
012- And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.
013- But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
014- And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
015- For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.
016- And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
017- And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
018- And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
019- And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
020- And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
021- And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.
022- And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.
023- And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
024- And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
025- Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
026- And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
027- To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
028- And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
029- And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
030- And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
031- And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
032- He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
033- And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
034- Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
035- And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
036- And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
037- For with God nothing shall be impossible.
038- And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
039- And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
040- And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
041- And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
042- And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
043- And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
044- For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
045- And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
046- And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
047- And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
048- For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
049- For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
050- And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
051- He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
052- He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
053- He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
054- He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
055- As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
056- And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.
057- Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.
058- And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.
059- And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
060- And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.
061- And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.
062- And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.
063- And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.
064- And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.
065- And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea.
066- And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
067- And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
068- Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
069- And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
070- As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
071- That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
072- To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
073- The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
074- That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
075- In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
076- And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
077- To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
078- Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
079- To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
080- And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
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001- Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
002- Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
003- And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
004- As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
005- Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;
006- And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
007- Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
008- Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
009- And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
010- And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
011- He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
012- Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
013- And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
014- And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
015- And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in their hearts of John, whether he were the Christ, or not;
016- John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
017- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
018- And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.
019- But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done,
020- Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
021- Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
022- And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
023- And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
024- Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,
025- Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
026- Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,
027- Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,
028- Which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Addi, which was the son of Cosam, which was the son of Elmodam, which was the son of Er,
029- Which was the son of Jose, which was the son of Eliezer, which was the son of Jorim, which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi,
030- Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
031- Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,
032- Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,
033- Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,
034- Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,
035- Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,
036- Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,
037- Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,
038- Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
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001- There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
002- And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
003- I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
004- Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
005- I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
006- He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
007- Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
008- And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
009- And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
010- And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
011- And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
012- And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
013- And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.
014- And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
015- The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
016- And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
017- And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.
018- Then said he, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I resemble it?
019- It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
020- And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
021- It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
022- And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
023- Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
024- Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
025- When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
026- Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
027- But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
028- There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
029- And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
030- And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
031- The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.
032- And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
033- Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.
034- O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
035- Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
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001- And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
002- And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
003- Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
004- I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
005- So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
006- And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
007- Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
008- And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
009- And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
010- He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
011- If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
012- And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
013- No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
014- And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
015- And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
016- The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
017- And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.
018- Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
019- There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
020- And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
021- And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
022- And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
023- And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
024- And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
025- But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
026- And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
027- Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
028- For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
029- Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
030- And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
031- And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
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001- And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.
002- And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.
003- And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.
004- And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
005- And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
006- And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.
007- And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
008- And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
009- And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.
010- For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
011- And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
012- He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
013- And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
014- But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
015- And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
016- Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
017- And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
018- And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
019- And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
020- And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
021- For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
022- And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
023- Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
024- And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
025- (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)
026- For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
027- But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
028- And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
029- And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
030- Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither.
031- And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
032- And they that were sent went their way, and found even as he had said unto them.
033- And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
034- And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
035- And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.
036- And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way.
037- And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;
038- Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
039- And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
040- And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
041- And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
042- Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
043- For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
044- And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
045- And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
046- Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.
047- And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
048- And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.
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001- And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
002- And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
003- And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:
004- The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
005- And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
006- But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
007- And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.
008- And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
009- Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
010- And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.
011- And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
012- And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
013- Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
014- But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.
015- So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?
016- He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
017- And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?
018- Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
019- And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
020- And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.
021- And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
022- Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
023- But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, Why tempt ye me?
024- Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's.
025- And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.
026- And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.
027- Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,
028- Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
029- There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.
030- And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.
031- And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.
032- Last of all the woman died also.
033- Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.
034- And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
035- But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
036- Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
037- Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
038- For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.
039- Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.
040- And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.
041- And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son?
042- And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
043- Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.
044- David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?
045- Then in the audience of all the people he said unto his disciples,
046- Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
047- Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
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001- Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
002- And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
003- And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
004- They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
005- Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou?
006- This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
007- So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
008- And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
009- And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
010- When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
011- She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
012- Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
013- The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
014- Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
015- Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
016- And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
017- It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
018- I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
019- Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
020- These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
021- Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
022- Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come.
023- And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
024- I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
025- Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
026- I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
027- They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
028- Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.
029- And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
030- As he spake these words, many believed on him.
031- Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
032- And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
033- They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
034- Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
035- And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
036- If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
037- I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
038- I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
039- They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.
040- But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
041- Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
042- Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
043- Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
044- Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
045- And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
046- Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
047- He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
048- Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
049- Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
050- And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
051- Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
052- Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
053- Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
054- Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
055- Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
056- Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
057- Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
058- Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
059- Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
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001- Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
002- And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
003- Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
004- And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
005- And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
006- Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
007- And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
008- And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
009- And all the people saw him walking and praising God:
010- And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
011- And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
012- And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
013- The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
014- But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
015- And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
016- And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
017- And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
018- But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
019- Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
020- And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
021- Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
022- For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
023- And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
024- Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
025- Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
026- Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
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001- Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
002- And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
003- And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.
004- Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.
005- And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
006- And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
007- And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.
008- And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
009- And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
010- And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
011- Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
012- But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
013- And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph's kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.
014- Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
015- So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
016- And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
017- But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
018- Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.
019- The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.
020- In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:
021- And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
022- And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
023- And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
024- And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
025- For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
026- And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
027- But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
028- Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian yesterday?
029- Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
030- And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
031- When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the LORD came unto him,
032- Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
033- Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
034- I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
035- This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
036- He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
037- This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
038- This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
039- To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
040- Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
041- And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
042- Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
043- Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
044- Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
045- Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
046- Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
047- But Solomon built him an house.
048- Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
049- Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
050- Hath not my hand made all these things?
051- Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
052- Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
053- Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
054- When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
055- But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
056- And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
057- Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
058- And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.
059- And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
060- And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
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001- Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
002- As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
003- And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
004- So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
005- And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
006- And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:
007- Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
008- But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
009- Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him.
010- And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
011- And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
012- Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.
013- Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.
014- But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
015- And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
016- Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
017- The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
018- And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
019- And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.
020- And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.
021- And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
022- And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave their testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.
023- Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
024- When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.
025- And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.
026- Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
027- For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
028- And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
029- And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
030- But God raised him from the dead:
031- And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
032- And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
033- God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
034- And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
035- Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
036- For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
037- But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
038- Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
039- And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
040- Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
041- Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
042- And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
043- Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
044- And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
045- But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
046- Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
047- For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.
048- And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
049- And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
050- But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
051- But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
052- And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.
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001- What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
002- For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
003- For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
004- Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
005- But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
006- Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
007- Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
008- Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
009- Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
010- How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
011- And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
012- And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
013- For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
014- For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
015- Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
016- Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
017- (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
018- Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
019- And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
020- He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
021- And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
022- And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
023- Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
024- But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
025- Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
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001- I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
002- That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
003- For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
004- Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
005- Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
006- Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
007- Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
008- That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
009- For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
010- And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
011- (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
012- It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
013- As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
014- What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
015- For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
016- So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
017- For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
018- Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
019- Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
020- Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
021- Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
022- What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
023- And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
024- Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
025- As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
026- And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
027- Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
028- For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
029- And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
030- What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
031- But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
032- Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
033- As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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001- I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
002- God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,
003- Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
004- But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
005- Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
006- And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
007- What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
008- (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
009- And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
010- Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
011- I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
012- Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
013- For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
014- If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
015- For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
016- For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
017- And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
018- Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
019- Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
020- Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
021- For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
022- Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
023- And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
024- For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
025- For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
026- And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
027- For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
028- As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
029- For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
030- For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
031- Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
032- For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
033- O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
034- For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
035- Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
036- For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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001- Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
002- For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
003- But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
004- For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
005- For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
006- But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
007- Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
008- I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
009- And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
010- As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
011- Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
012- But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
013- For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
014- And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
015- Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
016- I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.
017- That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
018- Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
019- For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.
020- For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
021- I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
022- Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.
023- Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
024- Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
025- Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
026- In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
027- In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
028- Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.
029- Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
030- If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
031- The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
032- In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
033- And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.
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001- O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
002- This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
003- Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
004- Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
005- He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
006- Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
007- Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
008- And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
009- So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
010- For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
011- But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
012- And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
013- Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
014- That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
015- Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
016- Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
017- And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
018- For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
019- Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
020- Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
021- Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
022- But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
023- But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
024- Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
025- But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
026- For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
027- For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
028- There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
029- And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
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001- Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
002- But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
003- Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
004- But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
005- To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
006- And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
007- Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
008- Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
009- But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
010- Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
011- I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
012- Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
013- Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.
014- And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
015- Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
016- Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
017- They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
018- But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.
019- My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
020- I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
021- Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
022- For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
023- But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
024- Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
025- For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
026- But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
027- For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
028- Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
029- But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
030- Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
031- So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
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001- Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
002- For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
003- How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
004- God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?
005- For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
006- But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?
007- Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:
008- Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
009- But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
010- For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
011- For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
012- Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
013- And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
014- Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
015- And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
016- For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
017- Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
018- For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
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001- Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
002- Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
003- And this will we do, if God permit.
004- For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
005- And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
006- If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
007- For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
008- But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
009- But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
010- For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
011- And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
012- That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
013- For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
014- Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
015- And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
016- For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
017- Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
018- That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
019- Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
020- Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
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001- For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
002- To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
003- Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
004- Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
005- And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
006- But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
007- And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
008- And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth.
009- And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.
010- For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
011- If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
012- For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
013- For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
014- For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
015- And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
016- Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
017- For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
018- For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
019- For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
020- And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
021- (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
022- By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
023- And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
024- But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
025- Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
026- For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
027- Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
028- For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
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001- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
002- For by it the elders obtained a good report.
003- Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
004- By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
005- By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
006- But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
007- By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
008- By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
009- By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
010- For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
011- Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
012- Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
013- These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
014- For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
015- And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
016- But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
017- By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
018- Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
019- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
020- By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
021- By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
022- By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
023- By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
024- By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
025- Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
026- Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
027- By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
028- Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
029- By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
030- By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
031- By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
032- And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
033- Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
034- Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
035- Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
036- And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
037- They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;
038- (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
039- And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
040- God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
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001- My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
002- For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
003- And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
004- Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
005- Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
006- But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
007- Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
008- If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
009- But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
010- For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
011- For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
012- So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
013- For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
014- What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
015- If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
016- And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
017- Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
018- Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
019- Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
020- But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
021- Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
022- Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
023- And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
024- Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
025- Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
026- For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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001- Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
002- While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
003- Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
004- But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
005- For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
006- Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
007- Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
008- Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
009- Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
010- For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
011- Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
012- For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
013- And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
014- But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
015- But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
016- Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
017- For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
018- For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
019- By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
020- Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
021- The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
022- Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.